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Category: Trend Following
- February 27, 2010The Long Term Life Risk of Sticking to Safe Bets and Investments
Recently the TV hit me with an ad playing in the background. All I heard was: “If you are like most your retirement dreams have seen better days.” If I had a…
- February 23, 2010Busted flat in Baton Rouge… waiting for a train
Not all trend followers are the same and not all stick to their rules. A few years ago a young guy under the tutelage of a known and famed trend follower (not…
- February 6, 2010Michael Covel Meets Mikhail Gorbachev: The Digging Story
An excerpt from my book The Complete TurtleTrader: Taking very little at face value is my modus operandi. In fact, since childhood I’ve challenged the accepted norms regarding access to the truth.…
- February 2, 2010Trading Numbers, Not Markets
An excerpt from my book The Complete TurtleTrader: Richard Dennis’s friend Tom Willis had learned long ago from Dennis why price, the philosophical underpinning of Donchian’s rule, was the only true metric…
- February 2, 2010Timeless Trend Trading Wisdom
In the 1954 work ‘New Blueprints for Gains in Stocks and Grains’ William Dunnigan stated: “We think that “forecasting” should be thought of in the light of measuring the direction of today’s…
- January 22, 2010Thomas Stridsman on Trend Following Trading
A good article on trend following trading (PDF): “…being a systematic trend follower also induces some pain from time to time, but overall results move slowly in the right direction. Trend followers…
- January 20, 2010The Turtle Cut Back Memo
People fond of the TurtleTrader story will like this memo (image) from back in the day. It became a core piece of my book “The Complete TurtleTrader.” In fact, that memo was…