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Top Traders Unplugged

BO13: The History of Trend Following

Top Traders Unplugged

Niels Kaastrup-Larsen

Business, Business News, Investing, News

4.8670 Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2019

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

The concept of Trend Following has been around for a long time, but it wasn’t until a few years back, that the Bible on Trend Following was written by Kathryn Kaminski and Alex Greyserman.  Today, I am delighted to share some of the interesting lessons, insights, and key things that Kathryn Kaminski took away from the long road to publishing this book.

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0:00.0

As you may know, the concept of trend following has been around for a long time

0:05.0

and a few books has been written on the topic over the years.

0:08.0

But it wasn't until a few years back where the quote-unquote Bible on Trend Following

0:13.0

was written by Catherine Kaminsky and Alex Graterman.

0:16.0

Today I want to share some really interesting lessons that Catherine Kaminsky took away from

0:21.5

her long journey to publishing this book, a few behind the scenes, insights, and some of the key

0:27.9

things that she and Alex discovered along the way.

0:31.3

So sit back and relax and enjoy these unique takeaways from my conversation with

0:35.6

Catherine.

0:36.4

And if you would like to listen to the full conversation, and I hope you do, just go to

0:41.2

top traders on plug.com forward slash 41 and also forward slash 42.

0:50.5

If I go back for just a second, this concept of trend following is something that has been passed on throughout the ages.

1:00.6

I think we start our book by saying, find a trend and follow it is a common age that has been passed on throughout the centuries.

1:10.5

And this is quite, you know, sort of one of the been passed on throughout the centuries.

1:16.0

And this is quite, you know, sort of one of the points that we begin the book with is that people have been using and following the, following the herd, following the crowd for

1:23.2

for as long as anybody ever has imagined.

1:27.3

And essentially, trend following is simply following a trend that you may see.

1:34.7

And if you look across history, this particular approach, if done the right way, can actually

1:42.9

be very stable over time. And that's what we see

1:47.2

in the beginning of the book, there's an 800-year analysis. I mean, granted that any of these

1:54.0

analysis are not, you know, sort of empirically sort of hardcore research, but they give us some perspective on sort of, wait a minute,

2:06.0

you know, is this something that I could have done throughout the ages? And I think if you take that

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