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The astonishing rally of commodity prices during the past 12 months has taken most analysts, economists and investors by surprise. Rather than a dramatic change in the relationship between supply and demand for the underlying co |
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Six years after the Nasdaq crash, from a buy and hold perspective, the index is still in a -57% drawdown. That's a long time for all of us generations who were constantly told to sit back and just trus |
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Decision-Making: Core to Trend Followers' SuccessThe ability to make decisions when faced with an assortment of opportunities and choices is central to Trend Following success. Fast and Frugal Decision-Making for Trading i |
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'All methods of defining trends compare various combinations of historical price points. All trends are historical, none are in the present. There is no way to determine the current trend, or even define what current trend.. |
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Overleverage is one of the reasons for most traders/investors why they loose.... |
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Gold has been in a nice trend. Some big money has been made.Of course as any good trend follower knows, if a trend arrives you ride it. Unfortunately, the Wall Street press must attempt to explain 'why' .. |
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'The robustness of a trading system is proportional to its volatility. This is the no-free-lunch part. A robust system is one which works and is stable over many types of market conditions and over many timeframes. It works% |
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Confusing Risk with VolatilityToo often, people confuse risk with volatility. Risk and volatility are not synonymous! |
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IRAN IS NEXT - Watching them now is like watching a game of Risk. They started with Afghanistan which was the easiest country to establish forward operations in. Then they hit their first real target in Iraq. After geog |
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The uranium market is getting hot, and finally starts to get the attention of the average investor.This bull market in Uranium has been on our radar screen for some years now. Prices have reached landmark numbers r |
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THE 9/11 CONSPIRACY.... |
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WE ARE CURRENTLY SEEKING POTENTIAL INVESTORS TO START A NEW AND UNIQUE HEDGE FUND. |
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And inflation is every freaking where (EFW), too! The Yen Index of 'all items' has inflation at 34%, the Euro Index is up 28% and the Sterling Index is up 27%! |
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HISTORY SHOWS THAT FINANCIAL MARKETS ARE NEITHER rational nor efficient, and any investment strategy that ignores that fact is doomed to failure. Stock prices move up and down according to a bewildering array of factors, only |
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Sugar has exploded to recent highs not seen in more than a decade. But how could you have taken advantage of a move like this? How could you have been ready for the next world event to shoot sugar to the moon? Yo |
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One of the favorite questions by beginners is, 'Can I trade your system or invest with a trend follower with $5000?' Not sure where this number comes from, but it always seems to be the same $5000 for all beg |
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INVESTORS AS DOPAMINE ADDICTS - 'Under emotional distress, people shift toward favouring high-risk, high payoff options, even if these are objectively poor choices.... |
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TO MANY, FUTURES TRADING IS A BLESSING.TO MANY, IT'S A CURSE.TO THE MAJORITY IT IS AN ENIGMA. |
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WHAT IS A TRADING SYSTEM? We frequently get the question, from both beginning traders and investors to some seasoned investors, of: “What exactly is a system?” The following article from Van K. Tharp, Ph.D. wil |
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Quite often we get the question if trend following works on stocks as well. Read this interesting (PDF) report from Black Star Funds... |
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Alltough trend following trading has nothing to do with fundamental decision making we found some interesting reading... |
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The aha! process lies at the heart of price change. For instance, consider the series: OTTFFSSE. What is the next letter? This puzzle creates tension - until you see the first letters of the ordinal numbers - one, |
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KNOW YOUR BREAKEVEN FOR TRADING SYSTEMS. Traders should be concerned about making money; after all it is the reason to be in the markets. In the beginning, most traders are concerned more about the total return of their |
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GOLD'S WARNING TO TREND FOLLOWERS...The market has been given a rude awakening following the heady optimism which boosted prices to almost $400 an ounce. EXAMPLE OF A TYPICAL FUNDAMENTAL ARTICLE AND RELATED FORECAST... |
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WHERE IS THE PRICE OF OIL GOING? Many market participants believe they can predict the price of Oil. These must be very smart people, or maybe not even human because prediction is simply not possible... |
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CHINA DENIES ANY CONNECTION TO 'ROQUE' COPPER TRADER. TREND FOLLOWERS PROFIT! Copper prices hit a record high again yesterday after a Chinese state-owned newspaper said the government had decided it was not responsible for |
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DOES TREND FOLLOWING WORK? The objective for any investor who wants to be active in the markets is quite simple. How does one make effective decisions in an uncertain and dynamic world? The problem is finding a ge |
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MARKETS NEVER CHANGE.; the pockets change, the suckers change, the instruments change, but Markets never changes, because human nature never changes. |
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TRADING DEMANDS PASSION...The people that I know who are the most successful at trading are passionate about it. They fulfill what I think is the first requirement: developing intuitions about something they care about deeply,%2 |
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GEOMETRIC PROGRESSION. Sounds like a complicated math theorem. Its actually a good term for what happens inside of a big trend. Epidemics are an example of geometric progression. Starting with only a few people, an epidemic ca |
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We make money only on trends, either up or down. The Turtle rules allow us easily to spot trends early enough to get on board.By the time everyone else has woken up, they are often too late....Read More |
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Mad Man Cramer.....Read more |
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