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Our guest today is a successful trader, businessman, and author. He is known for his books Following The Trend and Stocks on the Move, and after an impressive career at Reuters finance he moved on to ACIES Asset Management in Switzerland.

In our conversation, we discuss trend following and the need to keep it simple, the mistakes that retail traders make, and how to start a new firm in this day and age.

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In This Episode, You\u2019ll Learn:

• The many skill sets that Andreas has
• How he wrote the books that he is known for
• Why he has a large degree of flexibility with his firm and the capital they manage
• How he grew up in a small town in Sweden\u2026with lots of cows!
• About the computer company that he started
• How he left the corporate world
• How he started at ACIES
• What Andreas does when he is not working
• The books he has written about systematic trading strategies
• The value of simplicity
• What Andreas thinks about trend following
• The issues with doing trend following on stocks
• How he got the freedom to write a book
• What retail traders will get from his books
• Why managing your own money is a bad trade
• What he thinks about technical analysis and how to define it
• What it takes to start a firm or trading business

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Resources & Links Mentioned in this Episode:

• Listen to our episode with Jerry Parker recapping 2014.
• A Definition of ATR (Average True Range).
• Buy Andreas\u2019 books.
• Check out his website FollowingTheTrend.com.

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