Tagged: Trend Following

Travails of a Trend Follower 1

Travails of a Trend Follower

Over the last few decades, Trend following has really taken off with a lot of believers flooding the streets so as to say. After all, if I were to sell you with charts like the one below, why would you not be convinced about its benefit But then again, I choose that particular chart out of the 1000’s available because...

Trend following & the Greek Referendum 0

Trend following & the Greek Referendum

One of the reasons I am a strong believer in trend following is that I have observed that in all cases where markets were supposed to be caught by surprise by an event that shook the markets, the trend was already down. I have in the past given presentations and talks using examples such as the Kobe earthquake, September 11...

Support, Resistances and Trend Following 2

Support, Resistances and Trend Following

Support and Resistances are the key tools of technical analysts who rely on the chart for making their assumptions. The key concept here is that of human psychology. A support is a place where the markets have made a bullish reversal earlier and one where one can expect fresh buying to come in and a resistance is a point where...

Betting on Elections – Gambling or Trading 1

Betting on Elections – Gambling or Trading

On Twitter, its amazing to see the number of winners who seem to be right in whatever trade they report (mostly after the move) and in an attempt to get them to commit to something, commented that I was going into the election result day with “Long Nifty” positions. Good friend, Nitin of Alpha Ideas replied back with a quote...