Recent Commentaries tagged (trend-following)
How Many Days Will You Be Profitable?
Paul Mulvaney is a trend trader profiled in my book The Little Book of Trading. His insight: Mulvaney's trend trading is profitable on 54 to 55 percent of days, but on only 25 percent of trades. Obviously those 25 percent of trades are more profitable than the 75 percent of trades that are losers...
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Classic Trend Following Advice from John W....
If there was a Hall of Fame for trend followers the owner of the Boston Red Sox would be in it. A piece of timeless wisdom from John W. Henry: How are we able to make money by following trends year in and year out? I think it's because markets react to news, but ultimately [...]
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The Origins of Trend Following
If you have not yet read the origins of Trend Following, dig in (PDF).
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Nell Sloane of Capital Trading Group Offers...
Nell Sloane of Capital Trading Group offers insight into Integrating Managed Futures and Traditional Investments (PDF). Download and take a read. Note: The vast majority of "managed futures" investments are trend following in nature.
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Market Technicians Association 2012 Annual...
I will be speaking here in NYC in April.
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Nurture Trumps Nature!
So you think you need to be born with an Asperger's memory gift to win at trading? Wrong! Read: The Talent Code Talent is Overrated The Complete TurtleTrader For example, here are some of the Turtle backgrounds: Collin's Commodities - Commodities Accountant Rosati's Pizza - Kitchen help Universit...
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Sage Counsel from Jim Rohrbach
Jim writes: Once more we hear that Greece needs more money or it will fail. If you are like me, you are getting tired of hearing that story too. I really do not listen to that stuff when it comes to making my investment decisions. And I really feel sorry for the investors who do make [...]
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Isn’t This Still a “Modern-Day...
Courtesy of ZH comes David Rosenberg: Q: Isn't this still a "modern-day depression?" Sure it is. And just as we saw in 1933, 1934 and 1935, the economy and the stock market can experience a brief cyclical recovery, especially given all the massive monetary intervention by the central banks, but t...
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Larry Hite on “Being Wrongâ€
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 [...]
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