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Tag: risk management
- July 22, 2014Risk, Reward and Uncertainty
Trend followers understand that life is a balance of risk and reward. If you want the big rewards, take the big risks. If you want average rewards and an average life, take…
- July 21, 2014Drawdown Wisdom
In the early 1990s, Commodities Corporation (a famed trading incubator that taught and bankrolled new traders) invited a group of Japanese traders to its company for in-house training. One up-and-coming trader at…
- July 14, 2014The Trend Following Questions to Answer
Now, let’s get practical. Answer the following five questions, and you have a trend following trading system: 1. What market do you buy or sell at any time? 2. How much of…
- July 2, 2014Ep. 253: Perry Kaufman Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
My guest today is Perry Kaufman, an American systematic trader, index developer, and quantitative financial theorist. He is considered a leading expert in the development of fully algorithmic trading programs. The topic…
- December 17, 2013Investing in Fake Markets
“Investing in Fake Markets” is a PPT that made it across my desk. Excerpt: “Risk not taken in one way…will show up in another way instead.” More from Michael Covel: Books ·…
- December 5, 2013Where Are You Placing Your Bet?
Some love risk. Others avoid it till the grave. Whether you take it head on or run in the other direction it will always catch you. Risk cannot be avoided so you…
- November 30, 2013Exploring Trend Following for the First Time
Feedback: Michael: I have received [your] CD. Thank you very much for all the work you are doing in compiling this eclectic knowledge and putting that in one central place. I have…