The Rules-Based Strategy That Outsmarted the Market

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📩 Over 100,000 investors subscribe to our free weekly newsletter. Join them: https://theideafarm.com/#subscribe This is the story about the strategy that turned chaos into profit—trend following. From 18th-century sugar traders to billion-dollar hedge funds, uncover how visionaries like Richard Dennis and David Harding used discipline, data, and psychology to master the markets. Through booms, busts, and algorithms, one rule endures: don’t predict—react. The story of how following the trend became one of finance’s most powerful and enduring ideas. (0:00) Introduction and history of trend following (4:03) Key figures in trend following history (7:06) Richard Dennis, the Turtle experiment, and its impact (13:17) David Harding and John W. Henry's contributions (19:08) Trend following in financial crises and pandemics (26:02) Recent developments in trend following strategies 🎙️ Subscribe to "The Meb Faber Show - Better Investing" podcast: Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-meb-faber-show/id1128955736 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6gEEIpE2eu1yndaFra4Cgb