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Trend Following Feedback

Posted on by Michael Covel

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Dear Mr. Covel,

I have really enjoyed reading two of your books, Trend Following and The Complete TurtleTrader, over the 19 years that I have been involved in the markets and recently started listening to your podcasts. I am in the process of relocating to Singapore and it was from one of these podcasts that I learned you are currently there. Unfortunately, I am not there next week to attend the Bloomberg/MTA Singapore ‘Systematic Trading for Investment Professionals’ seminar, but would really appreciate an opportunity to meet with you and ask a few questions.

I first started in the markets in 1996 on LIFFE and relocated to Australia in 2002 where I was a futures broker for a couple of years [we used to execute (Turtle) Elizabeth Cheval’s EMC orders] and then I became a prop trader in 2005. I am now working for a company called [name] assisting one of the senior portfolio managers but am really keen to explore and learn more about trend trading, as from experience, I can see the benefits & upside of having predetermined entry and exit points based on price action.

Kind Regards,
Chris [Name]

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Ep. 323: Jerry Parker Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Jerry Parker
Jerry Parker

My guest today is Jerry Parker, an original Turtle, trained by Richard Dennis. However, since then he has very successfully run a managed money firm called Chesapeake Capital.

The topic is Trend Following.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

  • Series of tweets written by Parker and use them as a jumping-off point for conversation. Topics include price action, “normal” market behavior
  • Recent moves in the Swiss Franc
  • Paying attention to entries as well as exits
  • Why investors are often their own worst enemy
  • The first moment that Parker heard about price-based trading
  • Becoming obsessed with asymmetrical risk and reward
  • Why looking at trend following losses is important
  • Why you can tell a system is robust if it has big drawdowns
  • Backtesting and treating all trades with equal weight

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Ep. 321: Michael Lardon Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Michael Lardon
Michael Lardon

My guest today is Michael Lardon, one of the premier mental performance coaches in the world, with clients in more than a dozen professional and Olympic sports. His athletes have won major golf championships, Olympic gold medals, Super Bowls and World Series titles, among other achievements. He is an Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of California San Diego and a Consulting Psychiatrist to the United States Olympic Teams at the Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista, CA.

The topic is mental performance coaching.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

  • Lardon’s early experiences playing professional table tennis; the “slowing down of time” and how it affects performance
  • The importance of mental performance in sports
  • Phil Mickelson’s loss at the 2013 Open and his win at the British Open a month later, and how Lardon was assisting him during this period
  • “The yips”, and what is going on in the mind when someone can no longer perform a simple activity they used to accomplish easily
  • Neurological vs. psychological “yips”
  • Lardon’s opinion on what’s happening with Tiger Woods currently
  • Narrow, intense focus vs. dropping the intense expenditure of energy when you don’t need it (ie. what do you do with your downtime?)
  • The process of desensitization
  • The deliberate plan for improvement and the importance of writing things down

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The Little Book of Trading Helps Out

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Hey Michael, shout out from the Great North. I’ll keep it short, I know your a busy guy. Just wanted to say thanks for your efforts to continuously put out quality content on your podcasts for free. Your Little Book changed my life man. I devoured it within what seemed like minutes, following many hard to read technical analysis books. Drowning in books, having the belief trading had to be an extremely complicated venture [was killing me]. Your influence gave me the AHA moment many times over again. I left you what I believe to be be a stellar 5 star review on iTunes. I don’t know if you are still sending out signed copies of material, would be cool though. I ordered Trend Commandments today on Amazon. I will be reading it shortly. Thanks again.

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Ep. 319: Salem Abraham Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Salem Abraham
Salem Abraham

My guest today is Salem Abraham, the President of Abraham Trading Company with a 27-year track record. Salem graduated cum laude from the University of Notre Dame in December 1987 with a bachelor’s degree in finance. He began his investing career as a futures trader while still in college, using quantitative models to trade global futures markets beginning in 1987.

The topic is Trend Following.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

  • Living in Asia and Asian economics
  • A market lesson Abraham first learned in 1987
  • The recent action of the Swiss Franc
  • Artificially priced markets and the analogy of a dam
  • Crude Oil as a trend
  • Speculation at the core of Abraham’s business and its effect on markets generally
  • The effect of Abraham’s grandfather on his work
  • The influences on Abraham’s thinking and business decisions
  • Location independence
  • The importance of a link to the outside world
  • Avoiding disaster
  • Being agnostic to the market

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Ep. 318: Christopher Chabris Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Christopher Chabris
Christopher Chabris

My guest today is Christopher Chabris, an American research psychologist, currently Associate Professor of Psychology and co-director of the Neuroscience Program at Union College in Schenectady, New York, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Neurology at Albany Medical College and a Research Affiliate at the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence.

The topic is his book The Invisible Gorilla: How Our Intuitions Deceive Us.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

  • Witnesses, memory, and the legal system
  • Expert witness testimony
  • “The play that changed poker”
  • Mastery in any field
  • The connection between chess and memory
  • Chabris’ interaction with Neil deGrasse Tyson, and how memory affects our outlook
  • The stock market, prediction, and forecasting
  • The importance of confidence with regard to predictions
  • Simple rules vs. complex rules
  • Oprah Winfrey, Malcolm Gladwell, and intuition
  • Memory and the influx of information coming at us

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Mark Spitznagel Trend Following Radio Feedback

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Mr. Covel, during Derman’s interview you mentioned Mark Spitznagel, and having read the Dao of Capital, it seems that his ideological views are a pillar of his investment philosophy. As a fellow libertarian I was wondering how much of your ideological stance has shaped your strategy. Do you feel that your choice for trend following is intimately related with your libertarian views?

Many thanks,
[Name]

I did not plan it that way, but it has worked out that both align.

How can you move forward immediately to Trend Following profits? My books and my Flagship Course and Systems are trusted options by clients in 70+ countries.

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• Frequently Asked Questions
• Performance
• Research
• Markets to Trade
• Crisis Times
• Trading Technology
• About Us

Trend Following is for beginners, students and pros in all countries. This is not day trading 5-minute bars, prediction or analyzing fundamentals–it’s Trend Following.