Category: Trend Following

Is there a simple moving average monthly trading strategy that crushes buy and hold investing?  Buy and hold investing on the S&P 500 index with an exchange traded fund or…

In trading and investing post earnings announcement drift (or PEAD) is the theory that a stock’s price action tends to trend in the same direction as an earnings surprise causes…

Trend Following by Michael Covel is the bible for traders interested in learning how trend trading works as a method. This book explains the principles and concepts that you will…

Market Wizard Richard Dennis was a legendary commodities trader nicknamed the “Prince of the Pit.” Early in his trading career in the 1970s, he was loaned $1,600 and is said…

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…

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…

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 backtest based…

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…

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…

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…