Discover the investment strategy that works in any market – and helped
some traders make a fortune in the crashing markets of Fall 2008!
- The only Trend Following book to include powerful new results from Fall 2008:
learn how Trend Followers delivered fantastic returns while everyone else was losing their
shirts.
- Simple charts and instructions help you use Trend Following no matter where the
market goes next.
- Includes new profiles of top Trend Followers who’ve kept right on profiting
through the toughest markets.
Michael Covel is a highly respected author, director, and entrepreneur
who founded the internationally known website TurtleTrader.com in 1996. Covel’s first
book was the best selling Trend Following: How Great Traders Make Millions in Up or Down
Markets (FT Press April 2004 and November 2005 Expanded Edition). The book profiles great
trend following traders who have won millions, if not billions, in the market. The
original edition, expanded edition, and paperback edition have sold 100,000 plus copies.
It is also available in German, Japanese, Chinese (complex and simplified), Korean,
French, Arabic, Turkish, and Russian.
Table of Contents
Foreword by Larry Hite xiii
Preface xvii
Part I
1 Trend Following 3
2 Great Trend Followers 27
Part II
3 Performance Data 97
4 Big Events, Crashes, and Panics 123
5 Baseball: Thinking Outside the Batter's Box 181
Part III
6 Human Behavior 193
7 Decision Making 211
8 Science of Trading 221
9 Holy Grails 231
Part IV
10 Trading Systems 247
11 The Game 277
Afterword 285
Foreword to the First Edition by Charles Faulkner 299
Appendices
Introduction to Appendices 305
A Trend Following for Stocks 307
B Performance Guide 347
C Short-Term Trading 375
D Personality Traits of Successful Traders 377
E Trend Following Models 381
F Trading System Example from Mechanica 385
G Critical Questions for Trading Systems 395
Resources 397
Endnotes 399
Bibliography 423
Index 431
464 pages, Paperback