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Category: Trend Following
- December 11, 2008Geetesh Bhardwaj Is the Tool for the Attack; Mutual Funds Go After Trend Following
Follow along with this chain of events: 1. I made this post in November about Geetesh Bhardwaj at AIG who was criticizing trend followers. 2. Within a few weeks of my original…
- December 5, 2008Six Degrees of Trend Trading Separation
Amos Hostetter started Commodities Corporation (a trading incubator long before Richard Dennis and the Turtles). Who got their start at Commodities Corporation? Paul Tudor Jones, Louis Bacon and Ed Seykota were three…
- December 3, 2008Louis Bacon: Trades the Price
I have long found stories of Louis Bacon of Moore Capital interesting. Google him. Read up. While Bacon is never classified as a trend following trader, he trades off price action and…
- December 2, 2008Sunrise Capital: Trend Following Pioneer
One of the more under the radar trend followers is Sunrise Capital out of sunny Southern California. They have been at it for 30 years: Sunrise currently manages over $1.1 billion for…
- November 25, 2008Geetesh Bhardwaj at AIG? No, Now Vanguard!
A few weeks back a few researchers put out a paper that essentially said trend following is bunk. I commented at the time that one of the authors was at AIG investment…
- November 5, 2008Some Trend-Following Funds Are Winners in Rough Market
Michael Covel take in WSJ: Read. More, more, more.
- June 23, 2008Turtle Tom Shanks on “Boots”
I received an email from Turtle Tom Shanks today that adds more “color” to the story: This is mainly a clarification of the fourth paragraph on page 33, beginning “Shanks and Svoboda…