Trend Following Trading

Trend Following for All:
Trend following trading is for all investors and traders: newbie to professional. It beats buy and hold (hope), mutual funds and 'long only' performance like a drum. It's not a comparison. Want to make money in up and down markets? We teach 100% systematic trading strategies that make money in all markets both up & down. Our trading systems are for stocks, futures, FX, ETFs & commodities designed with one goal: delivering the chance to make the big money for all traders in all countries. But this isn't clipping coupons. No risk, no return. No balls, no babies. Bottom line, the market does not care about you or know you. It doesn't care about your dreams or desires. It is the ultimate authority so you better listen to it if you want to make money.

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Profit in Up and Down Markets:
Trend following doesn't swear an allegiance to a bull or bear market. It follows trends to the end. No matter how ridiculous trends might appear early and no matter how insanely extended they might appear at the end, follow trends. Why? Because they always go further than anyone expects! Ignore momentum at your peril.

No More Buy and Hold, Analysts or News:
Trend following decision-making doesn't involve discretion, guesses, 'gut' feels or hunches. It's not day trading or buy and hold (hope). It doesn't involve passive indexing, in and out trading or fundamental analysis. No more 24-hour news cycles, daily turbulence or sensational hype. No black boxes or magic formulas either. Hope is the most addictive drug. Let go of the Holy Grails. The good news? Complete beginners can learn trend following.

No Prediction:
Trends exist everywhere, always coming and always going. Whether fashion, business or whatever, we all want to find trends and ride them as far as they can go. Markets are no different: they trend up and down too. That said, no one can predict a market trend, you can only react to them! Trend following never anticipates the beginning or end of a trend. It only acts when the trend changes! However, there is no need to figure out 'why' a market is trending -- just follow it. You don't need to understand electricity to use it!

The Big Money of Letting Profits Run:
Trend following aims to compound absolute returns. It doesn't shoot for 'average.' Do you really want to be exactly like your neighbor? The goal is to make the big returns, not generate passbook savings returns. Trend following also has the unique ability to lie in wait for 'targets of opportunity.' That means 'outlier' events (read: unpredictable surprises like the 2008 market crash) can make you huge money.

No Traditional Diversification:
Trend following is not restricted to any single market or instrument. A focus on 'price action' allows trend following to be applied to an exceptionally large variety of markets. Price is the one thing that all markets have in common. That means a system for treasury bonds will work on the Euro too. And if you switch it over to coffee, something totally different than treasury bonds, it still works. Trend following is robust! But don't expect the 'tape' to lecture you. You have to trust your buy and sell signals and follow all rules.

No Government Reliance:
Forget Social Security, bailouts, stimulus plans and roads to nowhere. Those won't help you to make money, but they might help you to lose money! When the Fed takes the 'training wheels' off the economy will you be ready to mint cash or will you just sit there and take it again? If your portfolio is grounded in sound principles you can win, but the government has nothing to do with sound anything!