The new edition of “Trend Following” has cracked the top 100 of all books at Amazon. It is currently #77. Current Amazon sales ranks for all versions of my book “Trend Following”:

Trend Following – Feb 09 (Updated Edition; Paperback): #77
Trend Following – Mar 09 (Updated Edition; Kindle Edition): #96
Trend Following – Feb 07 (Expanded Edition; Paperback): #581
Trend Following – Mar 07 (Expanded Edition; Kindle Edition): #481
Trend Following – Nov 05 (Expanded Edition; Hardcover): #20,334
Trend Following – Apr 04 (Original Edition; Hardcover): #41,869

Also, the two versions of “The Complete TurtleTrader” have rocketed up the charts at Amazon:

The Complete TurtleTrader – Oct 07 (Hardcover): #230
The Complete TurtleTrader – Feb 09 (Paperback with New Afterword): #686

Both books made Amazon’s Movers & Shakers in Books list for the last 24 hours:

7. The Complete TurtleTrader Up +1,360% in Sales Rank in Books: #236 (was #3,446)
11. Trend Following Up +329% in Sales Rank in Books: #77 (was #331)

The new edition of Trend Following is gaining traction as its current Amazon sales rank (of all books available) shows:

Amazon.com Sales Rank: #444 in Books
Amazon.com Sales Rank: #380 in Kindle Store

This morning I looked up the current Amazon sales ranks for all versions of my book “Trend Following”:

Trend Following – Feb 09 (Updated Edition; Paperback): #2040
Trend Following – Mar 09 (Updated Edition; Kindle Edition): #1249
Trend Following – Feb 07 (Expanded Edition; Paperback): #11043
Trend Following – Mar 07 (Expanded Edition; Kindle Edition): #4,652
Trend Following – Nov 05 (Expanded Edition; Hardcover): #247,675
Trend Following – Apr 04 (Original Edition; Hardcover): #216,374

Trend following might not be something you hear about on the nightly news, but clearly the topic strikes a chord. And for those not familiar #1249 means there are are #1248 books in print selling better. Additional note: Trend Following hit #77 on April 11, 2009.

I will be presenting in August 2009 at BM&F Bovespa’s 4th International Financial and Capital Markets Conference.

This is an interview I did in mid 2007. They just forwarded it to me! It is in Dutch (PDF).

A new paperback edition of “The Complete TurtleTrader” is available now. It is the same as the hardcover except it has a new 17 page Afterword that tells some of the back story of actually getting behind the scenes of writing the book.

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These are the translations so far published for both “The Complete TurtleTrader” and “Trend Following”:

A Turkish translation of my first book “Trend Following” has been signed.

A deal to translate “The Complete TurtleTrader” into Simplified Chinese has been reached.

This article paints a tough picture for Las Vegas and casinos, but the charts of Las Vegas Sands Corp. (LVS) and Wynn Resorts (WYNN) showed a problem long before the article hit the wires.

A headline after the market close today:

Stocks stumble on record oil, inflation worries.

Really? How did this AP writer know that it was THOSE two factors that made the Dow Jones Index drop around 200 points? Do you think he really had a way to connect the drop to the factual issue of high oil and the subjective feeling of “worries”? Or does anyone think that just possibly he made up the headline out of thin air? And that just possibly (like every other day) many people read the headline and said, “Sure, that makes sense, I guess it is time to do something?”