Archive
Category: Trend Following
- July 25, 2006Barbara Dixon: Donchian Student Wisdom
Barbara Dixon, a student of famed trend follower Richard Donchian, wrote twenty years ago in Commodities magazine: Donchian is one of the most respected technicians on Wall Street – especially in commodities.…
- July 10, 2006Malaysia Trend Trader Seeks Relief
Feedback from a reader in Malaysia: Hi Michael, First of all I would like to say THANK YOU for writing what must (or should) be the most important finance theory book of…
- June 21, 2006Mark J. Walsh: Trend Following Success
Mark J. Walsh was not a Turtle, but Mark was close enough to the Turtle experiment and Richard Dennis early in his career to learn the ins and outs. Now 20 years…
- June 20, 2006Elizabeth Cheval: Keynote at Managed Funds Association (MFA)
I was in Chicago today for the Managed Funds Association’s Forum. The lunch keynote was delivered by Elizabeth Cheval, Chairman, EMC Capital Management, Inc. and was titled ‘Let’s Get Negative! Correlation and…
- June 10, 2006William Arthur Ward: Great Feedback
Wise feedback: “Hi Michael, I’m a trader in the Asian Markets and I’ve always been baffled at why many of my colleagues don’t seem to understand how markets work. I just read…
- April 18, 2006Texas Trading with Salem Abraham
Salem Abraham has been at the trading game for many years now. His track record exceeds 18+ years (PDF). While his performance consistently grows, client restlessness never stops. Clients typically, and this…
- April 16, 2006David Druz: Robustness
David Druz, a trend follower with a lengthy track record, offered this tidbit on his web site: “The robustness of a trading system is proportional to its volatility. This is the no-free-lunch…