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Category: Trend Following
- June 14, 2014Ep. 247: Van Tharp Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
My guest today is Van Tharp, Tharp runs the Van Tharp Institute and is the author of four acclaimed books published by McGraw Hill: Super Trader, Trade Your Way to Financial Freedom,…
- June 13, 2014Fundamentals Alone Does Not Mean Connective Tissue
Source: gapingvoid.com.
- June 10, 20145 Minute Bar or Weekly Bar: The Same Thing! Not Exactly the Same
Consider as a foundation to this post: “The window on analysis is shrinking. People are moving so fast now that they don’t have time to think. They’re scanning, swiping, clicking, liking, tweeting…
- June 9, 2014Paraphrasing Richard Feynman on “Price” Importance
Trend followers trade the “price”. It’s the number that can’t be faked, the real indicator of the past, now and the future. Richard P. Feynman adds: “You can know the name of…
- June 7, 2014Give Me the Data; Don’t Whine
You have a trading strategy that works? Prove it. Give me the empirical data. Or you can go this direction: When people see something they love is under threat, their first reaction…
- June 6, 2014Not Even Close
From CNBC recently: “Such [trend following] funds use computer models to predict trends in the prices of stocks, bonds, currency, commodities and other markets, betting that valuations tend to revert to a…
- June 4, 2014Inequality, Free Markets and Crashes
Nassim Taleb and Mark Spitznagel talk about how government intervention postpones the inevitable. Excerpts: Taleb: Mark, your book is the only place that understands crashes as natural equalizers. In the context of…