A market trend is the direction that prices are moving in for a specific timeframe. A market can move in an uptrend, a downtrend, and other times just go sideways inside a price range. Here... Read more
David Winton Harding is a billionaire trend following quant trader, and the founder and CEO of Winton Group. His fund was launched in 1997 with $1.6 million in assets and now has approximate... Read more
Moving averages are technical trading indicators for capturing trends. This post shows the backtesting data and system equity curve versus buy and hold using TrendSpider.com. This is the ba... Read more
Buy and hold investing on the S&P 500 index with a low cost mutual fund is a top performing system first made popular by Jack Bogle. Warren Buffett also recommends this strategy as a way... Read more
Trend following is the process of trading in the direction of the markets price action and staying with the trend until it ends. A trend follower must have a quantified winning process for e... Read more
The goal of a trend following system is to capture trends for big profits and cut losses short. A trend follower needs a diversified list of assets to trade in different markets to always ha... Read more
“Predictive technical analysis is chart/pattern reading. Trend following, on the other hand, is reactive technical analysis – a diversified portfolio perspective of markets using momen... Read more
Moving averages are the best indicators for the direction of a trend because of their power and simplicity to smooth out price direction in trend trading. They create lines on your charts to... Read more
“Trend followers use reactive technical analysis. Instead of trying to predict a market direction, their strategy is to react to the market’s movements whenever they occur. This enables the... Read more
Market Wizard Richard Dennis known as the ‘Prince of the Pit’ turned $1,600 into $200 million in 10 years trend trading commodities. What happened when legendary trader Richard... Read more
