{"id":635868,"date":"2010-01-20T10:20:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-20T15:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/remember-traders-the-trend-is-your-friend-until-you-get-killed-in-2009-2010-1"},"modified":"2010-01-20T10:20:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-20T15:20:00","slug":"the-trend-was-their-friend-until-they-got-killed-in-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/635868","title":{"rendered":"The Trend Was Their Friend&#8230; Until They Got Killed In 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2009 was a horrible year for trend-trading. We don&#8217;t have the data for 2008, but we can imagine that wasn&#8217;t so hot a year either.<\/p>\n<p>Automated Trading System Blog tracked about twenty trend-trading firms, only to find that they for the most part horribly underperformed. Trend trading has been in the dumps lately:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.automated-trading-system.com\/trend-following-wizards-december-09\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+autrasy-blog+%28Au.tra.sy+Blog%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\">See the full list of firms&#8217; trading results at Au.Tr.Sy Blog &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4b571d880000000000e63d75\/chart.png?w=780\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Chart\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/remember-traders-the-trend-is-your-friend-until-you-get-killed-in-2009-2010-1#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/high-yield-crack-head-trader-is-jonesing-for-a-fix-2010-1\">High-Yield Junkie Trader Is Jonesing For A Fix<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/mysterious-direct-bidding-strength-is-rallying-treasuries-2010-1\">Mysterious Direct Bidding Strength Leads Traders To Suspect A Massive Hidden Treasury Buyer<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/what-traders-are-predicting-at-intrade-2010-1\">How Traders Are Making Money On Sarah Palin, Osama Bin Laden, And Tim Geithner&#8217;s Resignation<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/LiB8lDGP7gY\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2009 was a horrible year for trend-trading. We don&#8217;t have the data for 2008, but we can imagine that wasn&#8217;t so hot a year either. Automated Trading System Blog tracked about twenty trend-trading firms, only to find that they for the most part horribly underperformed. Trend trading has been in the dumps lately: See the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-635868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2FpW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=635868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}