Commodity Trading & Trend Following

Was speaking to a colleague about John Wooden who was the famous basketball coach his seven point creed can be easily applied to trend following.
Be true to yourself.
Make each day your masterpiece.
Help others.
Drink deeply from good books, especially the Bible.
Make friendship a fine art.
Build a shelter against a rainy day.
Pray for guidance and give [...]

Lets face it, trend following and commodity trading are not the easiest things for anyone to do. So many investors loved the idea that Bernie Madoff offered with consistent 1% monthly returns and no risk. We all know what happened to their no risk. Trading commodities has all kinds of risks and past returns of [...]

Patience, Expectation And The Power Of Compounding: Who Needs A Pep Talk?
Ask not that the journey be easy, ask instead that it be worth it – Author unknown
I was having lunch with my partner and a client yesterday when the conversation turned to trading (imagine that), and in particular what keeps a trader from [...]

Trader Vic Prepares For Hyperinflation
Thursday, July 29th, 2010
Victor Sperandeo is a very well respected trader in the Wall St. and Chicago circles. According to Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, ““Trader Vic,” is a trader, index developer and financial commentator based in Dallas, Texas. He has over 40 years’ experience trading both independently and for the likes [...]

There are days like yesterday that it seems none of the trades work ( You will have these days when you are trend following). Yesterday in particular the grains expressed extreme weakness. Prior to this the grains had been trending strongly. Wheat for instance started trending up since the summer starting at 450. Currently wheat [...]

I recently gave a lecture and to my absolute shock most of the professional money managers and investors were not aware of the Turtles of Dennis and Eckhardt. I explained the story how Dennis & Eckhardt ran an add (I believe it was in the Wall Street Journal) and offered to teach traders their secrets. [...]

Sometimes you get lucky when trend following. The example is a trade one of my commodity trading advisors are in ..Lean Hogs. Lean Hogs had a low in November of last year and have been trending upwards since. Today some news might have come out which absolutely does not affect a trend followers decisions but [...]

January 2011 was an interesting month for trend followers.
Below is a list of various Trend followers Jan 2011 returns
Chadwick Investment group 7.78%
Dunn Capital 5.81%
Drury Capital 3.47%
Saxon Investment corporation 2.46%
Blackwater Capital Management 2.23%
Robinson Langley Capital Management 2%
Chesapeake Capital 1.63%
Abraham Trading Company 1.45%
Welton Investment Corporation 1.39%
Beach Horizon LLP .94%
Rabar Market Research .78%
EMC Capital [...]

Great Expectations
The best things in life are unexpected – because there were no expectations – ELI KHAMAROV
Legendary trader Roy Longstreet was once asked by Intermarket Magazine, “Why have you succeeded in trading to such a degree and why do most traders fail?” Roy answered “Many major problems people have in trading are caused [...]

Jerry Parker from Chesapeake was one of the original turtles. His record goes back to 1988. His Compounded Annual Rate of return is 14.19%. This means over 15 years a $100,000 investment with Jerry Parker turns to approximately $700,000. What is most interesting is what occurred last year to Jerry Parker. At his height Chesapeake [...]