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Reaching back into my audio book archives today, two chapters from my book Trend Commandments,

back-to-back chapters from that book.

First, an interesting observation by myself about the trend following trader David Harding

on his appearances on CNBC.

These appearances were some time ago, but what transpired is timeless.

The second chapter included today a white paper, an origins white paper of trend following,

written by the Turtle traderader Stig Osgard, who graciously allowed me to include it in my book Trend Commandments.

Without any further delay, let's jump right in and give you a little of that summertime trend-following education.

Because you know know funny stuff

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Earlier in the chapter, systematic trend following, I included a small excerpt from CNBC's Aaron Burnett interviewing trend-following trader David Harding a few years back. On April 8th,

2011, CNBC anchor Joe Kernan interviewed Harding as well. At the time of that interview, Harding's firm,

Winton Capital, was managing $21 billion and assets for clients via trend-following strategies.

Now that you have read Trend Commandments, consider Kernan's interview and my questions that follow.

Kernan started the interview reading from a piece of paper that described Harding as a systematic

trend follower who believes scientific research will succeed in the long run.

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