It is amazing to me that, since starting this blog back in 2008, it has now received one million page hits. The blog has morphed from initia...

When trading, you are free to construct your own methodology and set of rules to use - what markets to trade, triggers for entries and exits...

Jesse Livermore aboard the Anita Venetian "Your definition of trend is the smoothing method you use. The methods you use to define tren...

At its core, trend following is an 'absolute returns' approach. You only have to look at the high-octane monthly performance generat...

Stripping back our beliefs and subsequently our rules to their absolute basics, as trend followers, ideally we would want to be able to: ge...

Below we have the current daily chart of the Dow. This is a classic example of a 'tale of two market states'. Up to the beginning o...

Suppose you have a situation where you take an entry signal only for the position to go nowhere, so you end up getting frustrated and close ...

Every so often someone contacts me to say they disagree with what I say and my beliefs, that some other successful trader they know of say...

When it comes to trading, I like to think differently. I'm not afraid of being a bit of a heretic when it comes to thinking about the ma...

I started getting involved in trading back in 2003, and didn't get into trend following until 2006. As a result, I missed the huge trend...

In his book How I Made $2 Million in the Stock Market , Nicolas Darvas talked about how he created his own 'box' method of trading, ...

Today was an interesting day. My one existing long position saw its profit evaporate after the release of a trading update, after which the ...

I was asked the question last night about how I differ from other trend following traders. The basic principles I (and many other trend fo...

Part of your success as a trader will depends on what you believe to be important. As Van Tharp says "You trade your beliefs about the ...

While most people tend to think of Reminiscences of a Stock Operator when Jesse Livermore is discussed, he actually wrote his own book How...

This is not the easiest topic to write about, but with the happenings in the US this week I feel compelled to write about trading and natur...

When I first started trading, it took me at least a couple of years before I found a trading strategy that I was truly comfortable with - na...

My trading system suits my personality and my desire to catch potentially large losses, offset with keeping losses small. My rules are fai...