Way of the Turtle: The Secret Methods that Turned Ordinary People into Legendary Traders

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Risk Junkies, Taming the Turtle Mind, Think Like a Turtle, Risk and Money Management, Turtle-Style Building Blocks, Turtle-Style Trading: Step by Step, Bulletproof Systems and Mastering Your Demons. Turtle Curtis Faith lays bare the entire experiment, explaining how it was possible for Dennis and Eckhardt to recruit 23 ordinary people from all walks of life and train them to be extraordinary traders in just two weeks. In combat use only one punch skill at once - 'Punch' or 'Boxing Punch' for opponents with high dodge chance and 'Uppercut/Crosspunch' or 'Closeline' for low dodge chance.

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Therefore they have created an experience inspired by the metroidvania game genre with platforming world exploration, RPG elements, and character skill progression, toned down to be a bit more accessible to any type of player.Personally, I would have enjoyed a discussion of the pros and cons of trend following at shorter time frames. I've been in the markets going on 10 years now and read literally hundreds of books, I've learned a good deal off this book.

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A true expert will be able to explain complicated ideas in ways that are clear and easy to understand.In 1983, legendary commodity tradersRichard Dennis and William Eckhardt heldthe turtle experiment to prove that anyone could be taught to trade. Take for example, this interview in the Striker Report with Alan Pryor, the designer of the Ready-Set-Go trading system, a likewise successful long term trading system.

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You can Throne an Action card and play it one of the times using Way of the Turtle, to play the Action once this turn and again at the start of the next turn. Faith spells out the Turtle trading method in detail, providing a template for a more general approach known as trend following. The secret of trading and of the Turtles’ success is that you can trade successfully by using ideas and concepts that are well known and have been around for years. These combinations have the clearest synergies and I believe the game was balanced with this in mind. This is why many people will learn the Turtle Strategy, and still not have the success they are looking for.Faith describes psychology with trading examples, what to look for when testing systems and he also backtests some of the systems he traded decades ago. But what stands out is the author's explanation of the different roles (investors, traders, arbitragers, etc) that play out in the market and his chapter on volatility-based risk adjustment units used in position sizing. kick and punch denier perks shut down one-sided builds (30% less damage) feels like cheating sometimes. I have made all the classical mistakes that plague most traders who do not have the mental discipline to follow their system.

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He also provides a detailed accounting of the psychological biases that make it difficult to follow systems that ride relatively few big winning trades for an overall positive expectancy. When the discipline of trading under Richard Dennis was removed, he did not know how to handle himself. Yes, his views are a bit biased but there is good introductory information for someone who is starting to trade. He offers some pretty solid and realistic advice on what it takes to survive and then succeed in the rough and tumble world of trading. Faith illustrates this with the variability in the results among the Turtle trainees (despite the fact that all of them were given the same system rules).Short trades must be made according to the same principles under this system because a market experiences both uptrends and downtrends. If you want to be successful, you need to think of the long run and ignore the outcomes of individual trades (page 44). When you play the card at the start of your next turn, you can again use Way of the Turtle, delaying it another turn.