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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Trend Following | |
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| The Market | |
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| Winning and Losing | |
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| Investor v. Trader: How Do You See the World? | |
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| Fundamental v. Technical: What Kind of Trader Are You? | |
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| Discretionary v. Mechanical: How Do You Decide? | |
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| Timeless | |
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| Has Trend Following Changed? | |
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| Trend Following Modus Operandi: Follow Price | |
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| Follow the Trend | |
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| Handling Losses | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Great Trend Followers | |
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| Bill Dunn | |
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| John W. Henry | |
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| Ed Seykota | |
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| Keith Campbell | |
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| Jerry Parker | |
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| Salem Abraham: Texas Pioneer | |
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| Richard Dennis | |
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| Richard Donchian | |
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| Jesse Livermore and Dickson Watts | |
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| Performance Data | |
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| Absolute Returns | |
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| Fear of Volatility; Confusion with Risk | |
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| Drawdowns | |
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| Correlation | |
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| The Zero-Sum Nature of the Markets | |
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| George Soros Refutes Zero-Sum | |
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| Big Events in Trend Following | |
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| Stock Market Bubble | |
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| Long Term Capital Management Collapse | |
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| Asian Contagion and Victor Niederhoffer | |
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| Barings Bank Meltdown | |
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| Metallgesellschaft | |
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| Final Thoughts | |
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| The Coming Storm | |
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| Baseball: Thinking Outside the Batter's Box | |
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| The Home Run | |
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| Moneyball and Billy Beane | |
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| John W. Henry Enters the Game | |
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| Pedro Stays In | |
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| Human Behavior | |
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| Prospect Theory | |
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| Emotional Intelligence: Daniel Goleman | |
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| Charles Faulkner | |
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| Ed Seykota's Trading Tribe | |
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| Curiosity Is the Answer, Not Degrees | |
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| Commitment to Habitual Success | |
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| Decision-Making | |
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| Occam's Razor | |
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| Fast and Frugal Decision-Making | |
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| The Innovator's Dilemma | |
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| Process v. Outcome | |
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| Science of Trading | |
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| Critical Thinking | |
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| Chaos Theory: Linear v. Nonlinear | |
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| Compounding | |
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| Holy Grails | |
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| Buy-and-Hold | |
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| The King of Buy-and-Hold: Warren Buffett | |
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| Losers Average Losers | |
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| Crash and Panic: Retirement Plans | |
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| Wall Street: Analysis Paralysis | |
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| Final Thoughts | |
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| Trading Systems | |
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| Risk, Reward, and Uncertainty | |
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| The Five Questions for a Trading System | |
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| Your Trading System | |
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| Frequently Asked Questions | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Slow Acceptance | |
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| Blame Game | |
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| Understand the Game | |
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| Decreasing Leverage; Decrease Return | |
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| Fortune Favors the Bold | |
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| Appendices | |
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| Personality Traits of Successful Traders | |
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| Trend Following Models | |
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| Trading System Example from Trading Recipes | |
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| Modern Portfolio Theory and Managed Futures | |
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| Critical Questions for Trading Systems | |
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| Resources | |
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| Endnotes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| About the Author | |
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| Index | |