Author: Michael Covel

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Hello Michael. First of all I really enjoy your podcast episodes, which are fabulous, and this is how I found your site. The main problem or challenge I have at the moment is the abundance of information I keep finding. Most of what I read, or watch, or listen to seems to be offering great advice on how to improve my trading. Sadly a lot of what I see is simply snippets of information that are produced for marketing purposes and click counts on Youtube. What a shame! I am still sifting through this lot of information whilst still trying to polish a suitable plan to use for my trading. Swing trading being my intention, using the daily and weekly charts predominantly, but with lower time frames for entry accuracy. Luckily I have been careful with my losses and therefore my losses are small and are easy to cope with. This is one main point I learnt quickly to control thankfully. Thanks for taking the time to read my reply and I hope it helps.

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Mark W

Two issues:

1. I am not aware of a single definition for swing trading.

2. I have never seen swing trading performance that remotely comes close to trend following. In fact, I have never seen swing trading performance.

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Mr. Covel, I have been listening to your podcast and following your work for approximately five years. Through your podcast, books, and other work I have “woken” up. My biggest challenge in my trading has been taking that first step. One of the big lessons I have taken from your work is having your personal finances in a position where you can confidently invest. I am at that point. Now it is time to continue my education and I will be signing up for your flagship program. I am looking forward to this. Thank you for all you do, sir.

Best Regards,
Nick B

Sounds like you have a plan. Just execute. Good luck.

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Hi Michael, I am a big fan of your podcast and listened to the recent recitation of the chapter from your book on performance data. (I have also purchased the book as well). In terms of the draw down periods – are those draw downs from positive positions where in essence the draw down is really just transiently reducing the size of an existing gain in a winning position as the market ebbs and flows? I would presume that classic trend followers would have cut their loss short on any losing position at a fraction of the draw downs quoted so cannot see how a draw down would indicate a true loss of invested principle. Thank you for any insight on this.

Drawdowns are many small losses across all markets adding up in trend less periods to form one equity drawdown. That’s not what you thought!

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My biggest challenge was to discover my trading personality. Unfortunately this was done through real trading! Despite the fact of committing all possible mistakes a trader could make, the journey to discover my trading method matching my personality for following the trend was wonderful! I have my method to discover if the security is trending or about to trend. In this case I have an extra rule to confirm what the market wants. I have my entry and exit rule and an extra confirmation rule for these two ladies! And before all that my money management rule which is simple take small positions to catch “significant” moves. Now the journey continues!

Regards,
Nikos C.

I’m skeptical. Why? I have never seen a personality test that then says trade this or that way. Jump into trend following instead and don’t worry too much about whether you have a personality or not.

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Dear Mr. Covel,

I have just finished The Complete TurtleTrader book online and thoroughly enjoyed the story. I only invest in a Warren Buffett style at the moment buying companies like Intel. However, I read the book and it inspired me to set up a small personal fund for trading separately. I have a degree in mathematics and as William Eckhardt said, “it’s just maths.” This was my first insight into trading instead of investing.

Kind regards,
Benjamin K.

Great reminder. Trading and investing are indeed two different animals.

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My guest today is Russell Korgaonkar, the Chief Investment Officer of Man AHL, with overall responsibility for investment and research. He is also a member of Man AHL’s management and investment committees. Russell holds a BA/MA (First Class) in Physics from the University of Oxford.

The topic is Trend Following.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

• Trend Following Strategy
• Trend following in the time of COVID-19
• Trend Following Firms
• Pokemon Card Analogy
• Understanding Trend Following
• Inflation Definition
• Risk Management
• Man AHL
• Trading Bitcoin
• Futures Markets

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• Russell Korgaonkar
• Trend Following
• The Wall Street
• COVID-19
• Inflation
• Cryptocurrency
• www.man.com

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