Michael W. Covel is the founder and President of Trend Following (TM). A researcher of the most successful Trend Following investment managers, he has been in the alternative investments industry consulting on Trend Following to individual traders, hedge funds and banks for ten years. His best selling book, Trend Following: How Great Traders Make Millions in Up or Down Markets (Prentice Hall, May, 2004) is a complete and concise guide to trend following. It includes interviews with great trend followers who have won millions if not billions in the market. The trading world has embraced the book with endorsements from Van K. Tharp, John Mauldin, Ed Seykota and many more. Trend Following is now in its sixth printing, and is currently available in a Japanese translation with Chinese, German, French, Korean and Russian translations soon to follow. Teaching and sharing unique insights about Trend Following trading and alternative investments has earned Mr. Covel respect as a rational and logical voice in uncertain times. Covel can explain how the best traders think because he's taken them to lunch in order to find out. Mr. Covel also writes for numerous industry publications including TradingMarkets.com, Your Trading Edge Magazine, Futures Japan Magazine and Stocks, Futures and Options Magazine. He is consistently quoted and interviewed by likes of Bloomberg Radio, Technical Analysis Magazine and Barrons.
Michael Covel
Mr. Covel is also Managing Editor at TurtleTrader.com (R), the leading Trend Following news and commentary resource since 1996. Thousands of visitors from more than 70 countries as well as hundreds of trading professionals engaged in years of debate and interchange making the site the rich archive of trading information, data and opinion that it continues to be today. TurtleTrader, one of the largest & strongest trading community on the web with over 7.5 million unique visitors since its inception, also functions as a resource center for the Trend Following Educational Course.