MERCENARY TRADER: You don’t use the original trend following system as devised by Richard Dennis and the turtles – why not. NATHAN O: First, let me say that I owe so much to that original system and ...

The SPDR S&P 500 ETF closed above the 200-day moving average this week. This is a widely followed indicator, and for good reasons. Making investment decisions based on trend-following can ...

Please Note: Blog posts are not selected, edited or screened by Seeking Alpha editors. It appears the rising US equity market over the last few years has erased investor memories of risk and, while ...

Tesla has long been known for its high volatility, so much so that it's often considered one of the hottest stocks of recent years. Over the course of its recent history, it has delivered some ...

ANNANDALE, Va. (CBS.MW) -- "Disciplined adherence to a stupid policy is still stupid." That, in essence, is the response I received to my Monday column on the virtue of investment discipline. I had ...

I recently described a simple trend-following trading system that works across most trending markets. Today I am going to revisit that system. Why? Because we have recently had a couple of "buy" ...

Algorithms and rule-based systematic trading systems have gone from representing near 30% of the market to now dominating where only 10% of those influencing the supply and demand balance decisions ...

In this week's Currency Corner, I want to come back to the US dollar, arguably the most important price in the world. The reason I want to come back to it is that my simple trend-following system has ...

That being said, I did initially and continued to struggle with, the drawdowns and equity swings that are common to trend following systems. Through extensive back testing (manually) and real time ...