Archive
Category: Trend Following
- August 17, 2009Kevin Bruce: Silent Trend Following Pioneer
Kevin Bruce is a silent (and very successful) trend following pioneer. Who is he? For those trend following data freaks out there, check this out (PDF). The highlighted sections are Bruce. You…
- June 25, 2009Turtle Jerry Parker on Systematic Trading
Turtle Jerry Parker noted the other day in Chicago that his trading is 100% systematic. Not news to me or the many others familiar with trend trading, but I suspect for people…
- June 24, 2009The Same Turtle Principles
Yesterday’s Turtle panel in Chicago yielded expected results: all of the Turtles adhere to long term trend following techniques rooted in those original Turtle lessons from so many decades ago. Many said…
- June 23, 2009Rich Dennis and Four TurtleTraders Today in Chicago
For the first time publicly today Richard Dennis appeared on stage with four of his Turtle students. Joining him were Jerry Parker, Liz Cheval, Tom Shanks and Paul Rabar. The room was…
- April 20, 2009Trend Followers in the Wall Street Journal
If you wanted to judge Bill Dunn or David Harding it makes much more sense to judge success or failure after looking at their month by month track records across decades over…
- April 19, 2009Talent Is Overrated: The Turtles
For those who still want to argue that the success of Richard Dennis and the success of some Turtles was “nature” over “nurture” you may want to take a read of “Talent…
- April 9, 2009Why Do Some Run from Trend Following?
Below is feedback in today from a reader about the continued debate of what to call “trend following”. The regulators and exchanges use terms like managed futures and commodity trading advisers (CTAs),…