C. Short-Term Trading

Ed Seykota was asked at Seykota.com:

“I am new to trend following and wish to ask you what your favorite chart is for determining a given market’s trend? Daily, weekly, yearly, hourly?”

He’s barely rated a mention in the nation’s most important newspapers, but pay close attention to what Institutional Investor wrote about him... “Jim Simons [president of Renaissance Technologies and operator of the Medallion Fund] may very well be the best money manager on earth.”

Long Island Business News

Seykota responded:

“Hmmm...your list seems to lack scaling options for minute, second, and millisecond. If you want to go for the really high-frequency stuff, you might try trading visible light, in the range of one cycle ...

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