One trend following system's price retracement is another trend following system's price trend reversal. Either way, they are right.

“We use a classic trend following model without too many moving parts, or optimisation parameters." "Trend following is very inaccurate in most trades lose money." - @rjparkerjr09

You go long on strength and short on weakness You never get out at the top or bottom You lose more often than you win You spend most of your time in a drawdown Your returns are volatile Yet add them all up and you have something which has performed over decades #trendfollowing

"We Turtles knew that giving up part of the profits we had accumulated during a trend is a normal part of trading as a trend follower. Watching profits vanish after they have just been earned is the hardest part of our style of trading." - Curtis Faith #trendfollowing

"The market likes to lull you into the false security of high success rate techniques, which often lose disastrously in the long run." - William Eckhardt #trendfollowing

"Simple rules make systems more robust because those rules work in a greater variety of circumstances. Complex systems generally are complex because they have been designed to take advantage of some conditions or market behaviour." - Curtis Faith #trendfollowing

"Trend following is NOT for most people. Each style requires a particular psychological make up that you may or may not possess. Matching your personality with its strengths and weaknesses against a particular trading style is very important." - Curtis Faith #trendfollowing

I am a very impatient person. Sitting in non-performing positions for days or weeks would be intolerable for me. Therefore being very aggressive in cutting losses, and utilising entry / exit parameters which some may class as short-term works perfect for me and my personality.

New blog post: Simplicity and robustness - learning from Linda Raschke, Ken Tropin and Curtis Faith tinyurl.com/29sfsm74 #trendfollowing

Happy New Year! The best of health and lots of trends for 2023.

"Simple rules that are built on more durable concepts will hold up in actual trading better than will complex rules that are tailored to more specific market behaviour. Keep your systems simple and you will find that they hold up better over time." - Curtis Faith #trendfollowing

"Trend following works because you don't out think it. You are a follower, not a predictor." - Daniel P Collins

The Donchian price channels I use provide a framework highlighting whether price is attempting to breakout to the upside, the downside, or there's nothing doing. Based on this information my rules tell me what to do - go long, go short or do nothing #breakouts #nocountertrend

"The secret strangely enough is not having an idea of what we are going to be doing in advance. We react to the unfolding markets trends rather than make forecasts of what's going to happen." - David Harding #trendfollowing

Well that's that. Even with the awful Matt Patricia play calling, Zappe showed more far promise than Mac Jones. Hopefully he will get the opportunity next season, with a decent OC #Patriots

Trend following is gloriously imperfect. Its robustness lies in its lack of complexity. Unfortunately, most people mess up by taking something good, try to make it better and end up with something worse.

I'm going for the 49ers and the Bengals to win this weekend. 🏈

"Those who say it can't be done should not interrupt those who are doing it." - George Bernard Shaw

Clients don't need CTA crisis alpha. They need to have their stocks traded with trend following so that there will be fewer crises. Trading strategies that don’t use stop losses, trailing stops, price trends as an input and don't take advantage of max diversification and shorts,

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