Category: Trend Following

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Hi Michael,

I have recently read your TurtleTrader book, The Little Book of Trading and am now on to Trend Following which I am thoroughly enjoying. I have been doing some trend trading to moderate success but gradually becoming more profitable as I iron out my mistakes, however, I struggle a little with scanning the markets for the correct set ups as I seem to miss a lot of them. The system I have been using is obviously different you what you use however so I will continue to read all of your content and save up for the Flagship product to continue further my education and achieve the results I am wanting. I am thoroughly excited as I read your books and I wish I had come across your books years ago.

Many thanks.

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My guest today is Brad Feld. He has been an early-stage investor and entrepreneur for over twenty years. Prior to cofounding Foundry Group—a Boulder, Colorado-based early-stage venture capital fund that invests in information technology companies all over the United States—he cofounded Mobius Venture Capital. Prior to that, he founded Intensity Ventures, a company that helped launch and operate software companies.

The topics are his books The Startup Community Way: Evolving an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem and Startup Communities: Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Your City.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

• Software
• How to be an Entrepreneur
• The United States 2020
• Computer Languages
• Commercial Internet
• Cryptocurrency
• COVID Crisis

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• Brad Feld
• The Startup Community Way: Evolving an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem
• Startup Communities: Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Your City
• Jerry Colonna
• Falklands War
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• World Wide Web
• Netscape
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Please enjoy my monologue Trends, Value and Selling with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio. This episode may also include great outside guests from my archive.

Harold de Boer
Howard Marks
Jeffrey Gitomer

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Hello Michael,

My name is A. and I’m 27 years old and living in The Netherlands. I’m managing my own personal investment portfolio of €75k ($88k), to which I add new money regularly.

My investing strategy consists of 2 parts:

1. I buy and hold a diversified portfolio of dividend growth stocks. I expect this to slightly outperform the S&P 500.
2. In addition to 1, I also (conservatively) sell put options on stocks I would like to own with a strike price I would be willing to pay. Because most of these options expire worthless, I generate some extra money in the form of premiums I receive.

I have finished reading ‘The Complete TurtleTrader‘ and loved it. It really makes me wonder what would happen if I implemented the exact turtle system, assuming I have the discipline and a fundamental understanding of the key principles (I’m confident I have both).

The biggest challenge I’m currently facing is how I can implement the turtle system in conjunction with my strategy listed above. I’m thinking about buying options with expiration of at least 6 months out (calls for upward breakouts and puts for downward breakouts). This would make it easy for me to get started, because I know how options work and the risk per trade is basically capped at the premium I pay. Love to hear your thoughts on this.

Thanks for reading this email!

Kind regards,

A.

Why do you want to combine these strategies?

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Hi Michael,

The biggest challenge I faced with my trading is sometimes wrongly differentiating between trending and ranging markets and whether to trade using trend following or swing trading tools.

Thanks
Arup

I don’t know how you do this. Who does this back and forth successfully?

And where are all these swing trading legends?

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How can you move forward immediately to Trend Following profits? My books and my Flagship Course and Systems are trusted options by clients in 70+ countries.

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• Trend Following Podcast Guests
• Frequently Asked Questions
• Performance
• Research
• Markets to Trade
• Crisis Times
• Trading Technology
• About Us

Trend Following is for beginners, students and pros in all countries. This is not day trading 5-minute bars, prediction or analyzing fundamentals–it’s Trend Following.

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Michael,

I have read a number of your books now and enjoyed them a great deal. I traded stocks and options in the past, and as I read your books I was surprised at how normal the mistakes I made were, and I understand now why I was so frustrated in an effort to prove myself right. What a revelation and sense of freedom to read about an approach that manages risk and probability, and does it so successful when applied with discipline!

I’m a full-time Army Officer and Apache Pilot. We discuss risk management in our field religiously, since it’s necessary for mission success and survival, even in training. I’m excited to learn more and apply time-tested concepts, not only for the potential for wealth generation but also for the disciplined application of a system.

I’m interested in your Flagship Course. Do you offer any additional discounts for the military? I certainly do not expect a discount, but if it’s something you offer I would certainly appreciate the remaining capital for trading!

Thanks!

Always a military discount. Yes!

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How can you move forward immediately to Trend Following profits? My books and my Flagship Course and Systems are trusted options by clients in 70+ countries.

Also jump in:

• Trend Following Podcast Guests
• Frequently Asked Questions
• Performance
• Research
• Markets to Trade
• Crisis Times
• Trading Technology
• About Us

Trend Following is for beginners, students and pros in all countries. This is not day trading 5-minute bars, prediction or analyzing fundamentals–it’s Trend Following.