Author: Richard Brennan

Oil climbed, gas collapsed. Trend strength rose to 41%. This week, fewer futures markets rose, yet measured trend strength improved. Nineteen of 49 contracts finished higher, down from 22 a week earlier, while the TTU Trend Barometer climbed five percentage...

What the Eye Cannot See, the Pattern Reveals A configuration is the trace of relationships we cannot inspect one by one Previous: Episode 4, The Same Pattern at Every ScaleNext: Episode 6, The Practitioner’s Discipline An experienced trader sometimes says...

The leaders gave ground. Trend strength fell to 36%. This was a week in which several of the year’s leading advances gave ground. Fewer markets rose, the moves grew larger, and the trend environment weakened sharply. Twenty-two of 49 futures...

The Same Pattern at Every Scale Why a shared architecture carries questions across domains, not answers Previous: Episode 3, What Survives Is What Could Not Be EliminatedNext: Episode 5, What the Eye Cannot See, the Pattern Reveals Across a slope,...

What Survives Is What Could Not Be Eliminated Persistence is the visible residue of variation, constraint and history Previous: Episode 2, The Future Is Not Hidden, It Is UnwrittenNext: Episode 4, The Same Pattern at Every Scale The river at...

The Future Is Not Hidden, It Is Unwritten What a forecast does when its subjects can act on it Previous: Episode 1, What Bohm SawNext: Episode 3, What Survives Is What Could Not Be Eliminated Imagine a bar that is...

What Bohm Saw The relationships between things are part of what the system is Previous: Introduction Next:Episode 2, The Future Is Not Hidden, It Is Unwritten A risk report shows each futures position within its intended limit. Then a common...

Twenty-eight markets rose. Trend strength eased to 50%. This was a week in which the performance board broadened sharply, but the trend environment lost a little ground. Twenty-eight of 49 futures contracts finished higher, twice the previous week’s 14. Six...

Hidden in Plain Sight A working trader’s case for seeing relationships, constraints and process Next: Episode 1, What Bohm Saw A forester returns to a familiar stand and notices that the undergrowth, birds and soil no longer seem to respond...

Every Outlier Begins Somewhere The Foundations Series: Ten Essays on What Systematic Trend Following Rests On Watch the Episode SERIES OVERVIEW There is a moment in every serious trader’s education when the accumulation of information stops and understanding begins. The...