Commodity Trading & Trend Following

Are You Trend Following without a Trading Journal? If you are not …how do you learn from your mistakes?
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The vast majority of new traders and those new to Trend following want the secret sauce. They want to learn Richard Donchian’s deep secrets or magic setups or indicators.
Bad news…there is no magic. New traders as well as old traders(even myself) constantly need to work on ourselves and how we think. Success in trend following [...]

What is a good day trend following? A good day trend following is not trading. A day not trading means that the positions that have already been placed are working. Working means trending. Trending means we are profiting.
We do not need to trade every day or often. Actually in my trading I trade many over [...]

“I need $175 mm sent immediately - Oct 28th Edith O’Brien, an assistant treasurer at MF Global
As per the Wall Street Journal and Fox news..
On the morning of Oct. 28, according to people familiar with the matter, Ms. O’Brien received a call from Mr. Corzine, who asked her to resolve a problem: The firm’s bank [...]

The Realities of Trend Following
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Compound Your Way to Wealth…………………………………………………………..…..
Your Curve is the Key……………………………………………………………………………..…
The Mathematics of Compounding………………………………………………………..…
Curves, Curves, and More Curves……………………………………………………………
What It Takes to Succeed…………………………………………………………………………
KISS (Keep it Simple Stupid)……………………………………………………………………
4 Possibility Thinking………………………………………………………………………………
Why Commodities?……………………………………………………………………….
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It’s Simple, But it Ain’t Easy…………………………………………………………………….
Blueprint for Success………………………………………………………………………………
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We over complicate things. We( Not me) look for the most sophisticated trading ideas thinking we are alchemists. Well good luck wasting your time. The bottom line is if you want to be profitable over time, find a simple robust idea, believe in it, have strong risk measurements, be patient and disciplined.
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There is always the controversy regarding following the news or following the trend. Clearly crude oil is in the news with all the pressure & fears with Iran. Crude oil has made a strong move up from the mid $90 dollar range. This morning crude oil gapped up somewhat.
As a trend follower I took [...]

Roubini is bullish on the stock market. What does that mean for trend followers? Actually nothing. It does not mean that the stock market is safe to invest in. It is simply Roubini’s opinion and he has been wrong.
Roubini was very wrong…According to CNBC, Dr Doom Nouriel Roubini has issued a call that the [...]

The Trend Following Mentor and Thomson Reuters (MetaStock) Partnership
Very soon I will have Trendfollowingmentor.com up and running. I feel that it is imperative for traders to use the correct tools. The markets are no place to take shortcut. Earlier this year, after doing considerable due diligence, I chose to use MetaStock as my primary technical [...]

This was a post from JESSE’S CAFÉ AMÉRICAIN. This Blog is correct. MF Global customers have been robbed twice. Where is the justice? Where are the laws to protect?
“But please, to our friends in the Big Media, could we stop saying that we don’t know the location of the missing $1.6 billion of client funds [...]