Trend Following

Trend Following This is Michael's brain, unfiltered. Rules, sayings, and lessons on markets pulled straight from decades of trend following. Most traders guess.

Trend following wins by following price. For over 25 years, Michael Covel has taught the trend following trading strategy to traders in 76 countries—helping them cut losses fast, let winners run, and profit in any market. He has coached over 10K+ clients, sold 1M+ books in 15+ languages, and his podcast has earned 15M+ listens across 1,300+ episodes. Author of five books, including the internation

al bestseller Trend Following and The Complete TurtleTrader, Covel is known for popularizing this rules-based approach that removes emotion and avoids predictions. His work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, The Straits Times, CCTV, and Fox Business. Covel has spoken for China Asset Management, GIC Private Limited, BM&F Bovespa, Managed Funds Association, Bank of China Investment Management, and the Market Technicians Association. He has interviewed five Nobel Prize-winning economists, including Daniel Kahneman and Harry Markowitz, and continues to share insights through his podcast, blog, and social channels.

09/03/2026

Nothing like spending three weeks studying a position, building conviction, running every scenario, and finally entering the trade on the exact day the trend exhausts itself. Every time.

Most portfolios only spread risk across stocks and bonds, two things that tend to move together when it matters most.Tre...
09/02/2026

Most portfolios only spread risk across stocks and bonds, two things that tend to move together when it matters most.

Trend following is built differently, trading currencies, grains, metals, and interest rates at the same time, so no single story can sink the whole thing.

More on how that's built in trendfollowing.com/start.

09/02/2026

There's a version of every trader who reads ten books, watches a hundred hours of content, builds spreadsheets, and still blows the account.

The information was never the missing piece. Ex*****on was.

09/02/2026

Most traders treat volatility like an enemy. It isn't. Volatility is the price of admission. No volatility means no trend. No trend means no return.

Learning to sit inside the movement without flinching is the entire skill.

08/31/2026

The best systematic trading days are the boring ones.

The system signals, the trader executes, nobody overrides anything.

It doesn't make for a great story, but it's the entire point.

08/31/2026

The trend doesn't know and doesn't care.

Somewhere across bonds, currencies, equities, and commodities, something is moving right now.

The only question worth asking: is your system positioned for it.

08/30/2026

Nothing builds character like watching a position hit your exact price target the day after you closed it because you wanted to lock in the gain early.

The market is an excellent teacher. Remarkably consistent with the lessons.

08/29/2026

You will never feel completely confident going into a position. The traders who wait until they're sure are still waiting.

Executing with incomplete information and a defined exit is the job. That's all it is.

08/28/2026

When the book finds people on its own, you know the message is bigger than the marketing.

The Complete TurtleTrader has been in print for nearly two decades. It keeps showing up in new hands, new cities, new feeds. Not because of ads, but because the story inside it changes how people think about markets.

That is what happens when the idea is right. It travels on its own.

08/28/2026

"Trading is a waiting game. You sit and wait and make a lot of money all at once." —Michael Marcus

The waiting is the strategy. Most traders just can't tolerate the quiet long enough to collect the return when it finally arrives.

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