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• Using Profit Targets in Trend Following & Trading for a Living

  
  Commodity Trading & Trend Following — Authority: 110
  Many do not have patience and can’t wait to ring that cash register. They want to reach a profit target. I let my profits run when I am trend following. I know that I do not know the future and I diligently follow my trading plan. I believe in my methodology and plan to let it work over time. One Hedge fund ...
  6 days ago

• If Trend Following & Trading for a Living is so Easy Why Isn’t Everyone Making Money?

  
  Commodity Trading & Trend Following — Authority: 110
  The basic tenants of Trend following are very simplistic in nature. Do not confuse simple with easy or profitable. I utilize a robust yet simple trend following breakout idea and trend retracement in my trading. Again, do not confuse simple with easy or profitable. Trend following is not EASY. I am enclosing a ...
  6 days ago

• Podcast #3 Live

  
  Michael Covel: Trend Following Manifesto — Authority: 113
  Podcast #3 and feed are live.
  1 week ago

• How Long Does it Take to Learn to Trade for a Living & Trend Follow?

  
  Commodity Trading & Trend Following — Authority: 110
  Before I even attempt to answer, How long do you think it takes a doctor to learn his skills? How long do you think it takes a lawyer to learn the law? I can keep on going but you get the idea. As much as trend following on its own is simple in nature, it does take a lot of time not really to learn trend following, ...
  1 week ago

• Combining Trend Following and Option Selling Strategies

  
  Condor Options — Authority: 394
  Historically, two of the most successful approaches to trading have been trend following and option selling. Trend following and momentum investing are strategies known to just about everybody, and option selling (i.e. collecting the volatility risk premium ), while not quite as famous, is hardly a closely-held ...
  1 week ago

• Technical Indicators To Profit From

  
  Invest2Success Blog — Authority: 106
  How One Technical Indicator Can Identify Three Trade Setups Trading using technical indicators -- such as the MACD, for example -- can do one of two things: help you or hurt you. Elliott Wave Internationals Jeffrey Kennedy explains what he loves and hates about technical indicators and shows you how he uses them ...
  1 week ago

• What Babe Ruth Can Teach You About Investing

  
  Piggy Bank Finances — Authority: 146
  Copyright © 2012 Trend Following 101 I like to compare trading to being a pro baseball player – specifically to being a great hitter. An all-star batter in pro baseball will hit .300 and an all star hits .350. Babe Ruth – who just might be the best hitter in baseball history – hit a remarkable .348 over his ...
  1 week ago

• How to Use ETFs in a Trend-Following Strategy

  
  ETF Trends — Authority: 474
  Before stepping into any market, investors should take a moment to check their emotions at the door and utilize a sound investment strategy. Here, we follow an exchange traded fund trend-following strategy to help guide us through the ever-changing marketplace so that we aren’t making...
  1 week ago

• Can Simple Robust Trend Following Strategies really Generate Returns?

  
  Commodity Trading & Trend Following — Authority: 110
  Too many times we try to make simple things more complicated! There are those that think simple means unsophisticated or not possible to generate money. They are very wrong and the track records going back decades of many trend followers prove them wrong. All one has to do is look at the audited real time records of ...
  1 week ago

• Equity Curve of the Stock Market compound annual rate of return of 0.39% over 10 years.

  
  Commodity Trading & Trend Following — Authority: 110
  The Equity Curve of the Stock Market with a compound annual rate of return of 0.39% over 10 years does not seem to be a way to compound money over long periods of time. Compare this with trend following. Trend followers and commodity trading advisors go through draw downs and long periods in which they do not ...
  2 weeks ago

• For Great Trading & Trend Following Do you Really Need Speed?

  
  Commodity Trading & Trend Following — Authority: 110
  One of the biggest misnomers of trend following is that you need up to the minute information and speed. Supposedly, the faster the better. Well the reality is, No…Forget about having the fastest computer or up to the millisecond of information. In my personal experience this is not what is needed as well as you ...
  3 weeks ago

• Larry Hite on “Being Wrong”

  
  Michael Covel: Trend Following Manifesto — Authority: 113
  An excerpt from The Little Book of Trading: One final important gem from Larry Hite is that being wrong is okay. He says he was never very good in school and not much of an athlete either. But he turned that to his advantage because he was able to grasp the idea that he could [...]
  3 weeks ago

• Stock ETFs See Bullish Technical Signal

  
  ETF Trends — Authority: 474
  Many of the major U.S. equity exchange traded funds are experiencing a positive technical signal known as a bullish or golden cross, in which the 50-day exponential moving average rises up through the 200-day average.Despite the Eurozone debt concerns, sovereign debt downgrades, high unemployment...
  3 weeks ago

• Books Bought By Big Picture Readers in 2011: Trend Commandments #2

  
  Michael Covel: Trend Following Manifesto — Authority: 113
  These days well read blogs are the engine of growth. In that world guys like Barry Ritholtz drive debates. He just listed his The 10 Most Popular Books Bought By Big Picture Readers in 2011 and my book Trend Commandments came in at #2 for the year. Very cool.
  3 weeks ago

• Trend Following Wizards – December 2011

  
  Au.Tra.Sy blog by Jez Liberty — Authority: 89
  This report closes the year 2011 for the Trend Following Wizards, which ended up – not so surprisingly – on the negative side. The performance for December was virtually nil, leaving the composite index at -7.5% for the year. Apart from a handful of managers, most funds were in the red for 2011. Interestingly, ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Cheaters Guide to Trading in 15 Minutes a Day

  
  Piggy Bank Finances — Authority: 146
  Copyright © 2012 Trend Following 101 I’m going to say this definitively: You can become a very profitable trader and only spend a minimal amount of time on your investment strategy. This can be true no matter what markets you invest in. Some very very good traders spend less than 15 minutes a day actually trading. ...
  3 weeks ago

• How to Navigate Uncertain Markets with an ETF Strategy

  
  ETF Trends — Authority: 474
  In the current investment environment, the old way of thinking may do more harm than good. Exchange traded fund investors need to have a strategy in place before dipping into these choppy market waters.Investors tend to deviate from a rational thought process but there are ways to reduce the...
  3 weeks ago

• Group Seminar February 11/12 Las Vegas

  
  Michael Covel: Trend Following Manifesto — Authority: 113
  My firm is planning a group seminar Feb 11/12 in Las Vegas for current students. If interested drop me a line for more details and pricing. *** In the spirit of our seminar announcement consider a great article that appeared in The New Yorker on checklists. An excerpt: We now live in the era of [...]
  3 weeks ago

• Natural Gas:142 Days, $17,760 per Contract – and Still Going!

  
  Piggy Bank Finances — Authority: 146
  Copyright © 2012 Trend Following 101 Natural gas has been on a remarkable run for nearly 5 months now. Some trend trading systems got short natural gas on July 26, 2011. It’s still going. It’s remarkable. It’s been 142 days since this trade began. You would think that after 4 months a trade might lose a ...
  3 weeks ago

• Behavioral biases favor trend following

  
  StreetCoup — Authority: 102
  Commodity Trading Advisors (CTA) that utilize trend following through managed futures accounts have long known that there is no Holy Grail in investing. When following trends, they know that anything can happen, so they have completely abandoned strategies involving fundamental analysis or buy-and-hold fallacies. ...
  3 weeks ago

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