So there are a lot of great trend-following books that definitely people should be reading up on.
Third, there is likely trend-following behavior among the gurus, which leads to more wrong forecasts than right forecasts.
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By being a trend-following trader, you put yourself in a position to benefit when a black swan happens.
In our shop, trend-following is at the core of our investing beliefs.
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Momentum strategies can help investors beat the market and avoid crashes, when coupled with trend-following, which focuses only on stocks that are gaining.
Hewison recalls that one of the mistakes early in his career occurred when he failed to use stops and was trying to pick a counter-trend, or a top, rather than his current practice of trend-following.
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The factor builder returns the answer that trend-following has not been particularly efficient when cross applied to FX assets in general (though you can data mine to make it look good as most technical analysis books do).
That was a 12-month peak following an upward trend through last fall.
But now more and more small China businesses are following the lead of these trend-setters a few years ago and being recognized on the global investment stage as attention turns to emerging markets for improved returns.
However, the June gold contract remains below all moving averages from the 20-day to 200-day this position keeps trend following traders bearish on gold.
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After the city banned smoking in restaurants, bars and clubs in 2003 - itself following Los Angeles, which introduced similar curbs a decade earlier - it helped drive a global trend.
In that way, they are following the "real-estate light" trend taken up by other big hotel companies, such as Marriott International Inc.
Companies like Nike and Puma are also following this trend, tapping collaborations with everything from location-based apps to messaging services in attempts to lead the way into what will undoubtedly become a crowded marketplace for consumer engagement.
Along with PowerShares, Dorsey Wright, the well-known research shop, has its own ETF that uses a trend following methodology when picking its portfolio constituents.
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Ascending channels can be bearish if you get a definitive break below the lower trend-line of the pattern, but we never got that break, thus we were never prompted to stop following the upward trend.
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