What you can learn from Seve Ballesteros

Ballesteros on the 12th tee, Augusta 1980

In 1980 Severiano Ballesteros won his first US Masters by 4 shots. At one point in the final round he was a mammoth 10 strokes clear of the field. If some people thought his win in the Open Championship the previous year was a fluke, this announced his arrival as a world star.

In his book Natural Golf, Ballesteros talked about the aftermath of that success and how it actually had a detrimental effect on his game for a time:

The charts tell you what you allow them to tell you

I was having a long conversation the other night with an aspiring trend follower, about how I go about selecting the stocks I want to trade, and how it maybe differs from more 'traditional' trend followers.

If you trade a small basket of futures markets (like the Turtles) then, providing you are not 'fully loaded' in your existing positions, you were instructed to take all signals given, as not taking a signal could mean missing out on the most profitable trade of the year.