Commodity Trading & Trend Following

Profiting from Trend Breakouts Trend Breakout trading was proposed by Richard Donchian back in the 1940s. What is fascinating with Richard Donchian is that he lost of all his money in the Great Depression. He picked himself up and thought there had to be a better way. He came up with a technical approach to […]

Last year in the midst of the economic debacle we learned that some banks were to big to fail. These banks were propped up on behalf of the central banks in fear of greater destruction in the worlds financial markets. Banks on both sides of the Atlantic were considered to big to fail. Is the […]

Donchian’s Holy Grail & Trading Guides for Commodity trading & Forex Markets (First published- 1934) Follow these and compound your way to wealth: Beware of acting immediately on a widespread public opinion. Even if correct, it will usually delay the move. From a period of dullness and inactivity, watch for and prepare to follow a […]

So many times I hear clients when in a draw down say ,there are changes going on in commodity trading and trend following. The commodity markets are changing. They are not like what they used to be. Trend following is dead. This draw down proves trend following is dead. Well I will give you my […]

The father of trend following of trading commodities is Richard Donchian. Donchian started the first manged futures fund for trading commodities in 1949. Despite his long term success in trading commodities skeptics abound till today. To me a commodity trading advisor my plan is partially based on Donchian and his methods of trading commodities. His […]