All Allan: The Big Picture

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Allan

"A long, long time ago
I can still remember
How the music used to make me smile
And I knew if I had my chance
That I could make those people dance
And, maybe, they’d be happy for a while."

ON YOUR LEFT, MY LIFE AND TIMES....A PERSONAL JOURNEY EMBEDDED HERE AND THERE WITH MY LOVE AFFAIR WITH THE STOCK MARKET.

BELOW, ITS ALL BUSINESS WITH A LINK TO MY ALLANTRENDS WEB SITE.

The mantra here is to find something that works, then trade it. That something is Trend Following using a proprietary version of an Average True Range trend line. You can see it embedded on all of the charts that I post. It’s a simple observational system, if prices are above the trend line then prices are in an uptrend and if prices are below the trend line, prices are in a down trend.

For some, the most challenging part is actually trading the system. That’s where I come in with my observations and analysis. The “music” is my feel for the markets, as I have been doing this for a long time, from my first 5 shares of General Motors circa the mid-1960’s, to my reading of The Elliott Wave Principle in 1982 and through my acquisition of Advanced GET in 1994, the year I gave up my law practice and moved to the beach to trade full time. I have never looked back.

My tools are simple, but powerful. This is the best of the lot and I make it available for a nominal monthly fee. Subscribers not only get my proprietary Trend Following Model, but they get me; access to me for questions and/or learning through private email exchanges. We have found something that works. Now we trade it.

AllanTrends

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Originally from Detroit, Michigan, I attended Mumford H.S. the University of Michigan (BA), Suffolk Law School in Boston (JD) and Emory Law in Atlanta (LLM-Taxation ). Thus, with way too much formal education, I opened up my own law practice in Atlanta and closed it down 15 years later, whereupon I moved to the beach, Kiawah Island SC, to trade for a living. I made a fortune in the great bull market of the nineties, than lost 80% of it back in the great bear market of 2000-2002.

The stock market crisis of 2007-2008 led me down yet another path, this time through the discovery of simple trend following algorithms. Not long after reading Trend Following by Michael Covel, a reader sent me a link to an article in TASC that in turn led me to an algorithm that turned all that I had ever learned about trading on its head. The outcome is represented in my proprietary Trend Following Trading Models and the evolution of how and why is documented posts starting in late 2009.

As for the personal stuff, the music, the poetry and the joys and angst of living the good life, well, my spirit tells it all in the words, images and ideas that come together through the aegis that is, AllAlan.blogspot.com

A note about the AllanTrends web site: Most commercial sites have pop-up windows appear when you click on them. The idea is to capture your email and begin a never-ending email campaign to sell you their product or service. The worse ones collect emails and sell them to email lists marketing companies.

THERE IS NO SUCH POP-UP WINDOW ON MY SITE. ANYONE CAN EXPLORE THE SITE FREELY AND ANONYMOUSLY. I EVEN MAINTAIN A FREE PUBLIC CHARTS SECTION THAT IS UPDATED EVERY WEEKEND WITH CURRENT CHARTS OF SPECIAL INTEREST.

All Allan

Thursday, March 10, 2005

The Big Picture

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