Often you see people talking about a winning trade, and how far in percentage terms price moved in their favour after entry. But on its own,...

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...

When people talk about the four market states, typically they refer to these as trending, non-trending, stable (low volatility) and volatil...

Almost a month ago I posted this article about how that, given the recent price action, I was currently shorting individual stocks. I also ...

Ten years ago the equity and financial markets were in the middle of an unprecedented period. My interactions with the markets around that t...

One of the most difficult aspects of trend following for inexperienced traders to accept is that you never get out at the extreme of a price...

The ad that started a legend. An often overlooked aspect of the Turtle Traders experiment was not simply what they got told, but the o...

There is a school of thought amongst some traders which says you need to adapt and adjust your chosen method, in response to changes in the ...

I would be considered by many to be a loser at trading. This is on the basis that I have far more losing trades than winners. And, if that m...

Even if you adopt a trend following method, the nature of the price action in the markets traded will affect the performance that different ...

I saw a recent tweet talking about how losing trades can be more instructional than winning trades. I happen to think that, for a trend fol...

It's been a while since I read Michael Covel's The Complete Turtle Trader - the story of the famous Turtles experiment with Richard...

"Systems trading is ultimately discretionary. The manager still has to decide how much to risk to accept, which markets to play, an...

A few weeks back, I spoke to a trend follower who had been experiencing a frustrating period in the market.  This particular individual p...

Well that's the first quarter wrapped up for 2016. And, as the metrics show, nothing much has happened in terms of performance. Looking...

Reading my social media feeds this week there is a lot of negativity out there. Markets are overbought, ECB comments later today will start ...

While many people say there is no such thing as a holy grail in trading, I happen to believe there is, but not in the generally accepted sen...

The last few weeks have been a total washout for me. The volatility in the market (and in individual stocks) meant that I was getting hardly...

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