Trend Following With Michael Covel

My guest today is Jon Boorman, CMT, a market technician, analyst, and trader with 25 years of experience in global equity, FOREX, and futures markets. Boorman employs trend following and momentum strategies to generate actionable trade ideas. Boorman has been with many big firms in the past 25 years, but now works on his own outside of the infrastructure of the big investment banks and brokerage firms.  The topic is Trend Following. In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss: What it was like working within the big firms Boorman's beginnings and how he found his way to where he is today What advice Boorman would have for newcomers, and whether the training Boorman went through is still relevant to up-and-comers today How regardless of your access, success comes down to the individual Price-based trend following vs. other technical analysis Boorman's early "a-ha" moments towards trend following Trend following complexity, and why it can be "simple, but not easy" Trading your own personality Van Tharp