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Jim Rohrbach writes:
I was listening to the Gary Kaltbaum show last night, and my friend Brian Balsanek was filling in for Gary. Brian said something that was very profound and simple. He said, “The stock market is always right.” I love that. Yes the market is always right. Often we hear people saying that the market is going to go up or go down. They place their investment decisions with what they think the market is going to do. Then when the market doesn’t do what they think it should do, they try to tell us that the market is wrong. They don’t admit that they are wrong. The market does what it wants to do and it is always right. We may not agree with what the market is doing at any point in time, but it is futile to say the market is wrong or to invest opposite the market. If the trend of the market is up, that is the correct trend and we need to go with it. If the trend is turns down, we should get out and not try to rationalize that the market should not be going down. Since the market is going down, and since the market is always right, we should get out.
Nice Jim.
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1. What is the state of the market?
2. What is the volatility of the market?
3. What is the equity being traded?
4. What is the system or the trading orientation?
5. What is the risk aversion of the trader or client?
Regardless of how you trade or invest … you better have those answers in advance of betting real money. Thank William Eckhardt for those perspective pearls. And yes–you answer with a number.
More on Pricetrader Bill Exkhardt.
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An unexpected source explains why many miss understanding trend following trading:
If the explanations you’re demanding for what works aren’t working, perhaps it’s because you’re avoiding nuance in exchange for simplicity.
[For example], your boss keeps asking you to explain your whole plan in three Powerpoint slides. The VC who allocates one minute to understand why your business will work has done everyone no favors. The blog reader who clicks away after a paragraph wasted his time visiting at all.
Skip the complicated, time-consuming part at your own risk…If it were obvious, everyone would do it. Wait, that’s too simple. How about this: Nuance and subtlety aren’t the exception in changing human behavior. They’re the norm.
A great example of how some miss understanding trend following by avoiding the subtle? They see one losing month and panic. If you work with that type of quick judgement you would be better off taking the blue pill and going back to sleep. Seriously! That excerpt connected well with this article sent by a reader in Australia that pumps the mistaken notion that investors can predict trends:
He’s adapted Nate Silver’s model very unscientifically to the global news cycle, using it to compile a handpicked store of knowledge, which he then aggregates to get a feel for where markets are heading.
The system requires at least five or six different news sources ranging across left to right leanings to provide the sort of radar that will give an accurate fix.
You may think you don’t have time to manage this, but there are apps that make it easy. Pulse is one I use because it enables the collection and collation, in chronological and subject order, of top news of the day from nominated sources. My friend’s favourites include Salon, Slate, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, CNN and Huffington Post.
He spends part of every morning trawling through headlines and reading only what he deems relevant to provide a snapshot of where the world is at any given moment. Over time this has helped him develop an accurate read on how he might reposition himself across sectors.
“If you’re reading a variety of news sources, you definitely start seeing trends, especially as everyone’s saying the same thing just in different ways,” he says. Lots of cautionary stories generally mean something bad is about to happen.
“If you’re hearing the same thing from multiple sources, that’s generally when something’s going to happen,” he says. “Which is why I’m out of stocks. There’s no way they’re going to stay where they are. They have to come down.”
Isn’t this akin to timing the market?
“No. I’m just trying to predict a medium- to long-term trend. If you want to get rich quick, this isn’t the way to do it because it’s very macro.”
He admits his method is not totally straightforward, and that there may be quite a wide margin for error depending on nominated reading material and how clever the reader is it at distilling it. But do it for long enough and you will get better at it.
Read, absorb, think and learn. Then do it again, then again. And eventually you’ll be smarter, too.
If you think tracking news sources to predict market trends might possibly make you rich, then you will probably get exactly what you want from the process. What is that? To have the feeling of losing money! For those of you who want the subtle from me, the nitty gritty, read.
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From SEB Asset Management S.A.:
If you believe that the world has changed for ever in such a way that there will no longer be any business cycles, that there will no longer be any severe crises situations (e.g. banking crises, government bond crises, real estate crises, junk bond crises, corporate bankruptcies, skyrocketing unemployment rates etc), that there will not be any large movements in the currency markets, that there will be no major political, social or military crises and that there will not be any major recoveries from such crises…in that case, you will not need any [trend following] investments in the portfolio. The [trend following]-strategy is a strategy that does well in a changing world. The changes may be positive or negative, but there needs to be extended movements in one or the other direction for [trend followers] to thrive….As a final and less research oriented reflection on the comparison between equity market performance and [trend following] performance, let me draw a parallel to rabbits and turtles (a famous group of [trend followers] were called ‘turtles’ as you may recall). Needless to say, rabbits are very quick over shorter distances. However, they are restless and often forget where they are heading. Most of the time, they stay above ground, but sometimes they go deep into the dirt. Turtles, on the other hand, are slower than rabbits over shorter distances, but they know where they are heading and keep moving in a very systematic and inexhaustible way. Turtles can get pretty old and can thus take advantage of their long experience. Over time they build and strengthen their shell, which–by the way–is the secret as to why they are able to travel long distances, not only on land in beautiful hot weather, but also when it starts to rain and when they need to swim through cold waters. The moral of the story is that one should never underestimate turtles. They have been around long enough to understand that investing is a marathon, not a sprint.
I substituted their use of the word CTA for trend following. Clearly, trend following is the dominant CTA style and that was the point of their comment. Plus, the word “commodity” is an artifact and misnomer. It’s the strategy, not the instrument.
Note: Shout to Alistair Evans for the find.
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Please enjoy my monologue The Incessant Search For The New New Thing with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio. This episode may also include great outside guests from my archive.
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