Commodity Trading & Trend Following

I wanted to share with all my fellow readers and trend followers my trend following or market predictions for 2011.
It is almost funny I have been posed the question ” What are my predictions for 2011″,Successful trend followers know we never predict, we react, we do not guess, we know we have no idea!
I [...]

First we had a housing crisis which some traders made fortunes by betting against the obvious. Meredith Whitney spoke to 60 minutes and brought out another obvious outcome. The financial day of reckoning for the US economy seems to be the fallout of pensions & the failures of local & state Governments. We all know [...]

History always repeats itself however with some slight variations at times. The reason history repeats in all facets of life is that as human beings we hardly change.
It is all about Fear, Greed and not wanting to be different ( follow the crowd).
I am sure many will dispute that but I am referring to a [...]

Trend Followers simply take advantage of price trends. These price trends can be inflationary or deflationary. There never is a prediction rather just following the direction of the trend. It is just that simple. Many times people like to convolute issues or over complicate. There are only 4 potential outcomes….Big losses ( which trend followers [...]

Trend following is really not for everyone. Most people like to be sheep or cattle and just follow the crowd. If their friends are investing in a certain manner they feel obligated. Trend followers are a different mind set. Many of the most successful trend followers such as Jerry Parker, Liz Cheval, Tom Shanks, Dave [...]

You can not take information… you need to process that information …and got to think that most information by most opinions must be suspect.
Larry Hite
Larry Hite is one of the most successful trend followers. He and Ed Seykota have been called the father of system trading.
He became one of the largest in terms of assets [...]

The goal of trend following is to compound money over time. Too many think that trend following a basket of commodities is easy and just full of profits. More so we have a saying in the office that many think that commodity trading is retirement in a box. So often you see advertisements for trading [...]

The real world of trend following and trading can not be easily replicated when doing all types of computer testing. One of the biggest mistakes is trying to curve fit. Curve fitting means that you change parameters for each market you are trading. In order to succeed in trend following you need a simple robust [...]

Too many investors think they are entitled to returns and making money. They do not realize how much work must go into trend following. A simple example is this actual reality. Over the last several days I have had signals ranging from OJ to Canadian dollars and even more to put on trades. You start [...]

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