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Diversified Systematic Trend Follower. Strategy Ambassador for East Coast Capital Management, Aussie Turtles, ATS Trading Solutions (The Traders Outpost)
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It’s here! We’ve published a book.

The Aussie Turtles Trend Following Guide is not a system, it’s a philosophy.

Available on Amazon now: lnkd.in/gmQWxYgn

#TrendFollowing #SystematicTrading #AussieTurtles
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Growth and Decay Share the Same Geometry

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#FractalThinking #ComplexityScience #ScalingLaws #AdaptiveSystems
November 10, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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Noise Is the Companion of Structure

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#FractalFinance #ComplexityAndOrder #TheMusicOfNoise #AdaptiveMarkets
November 9, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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This Week in Trend – From Friction to Fragmentation
“Momentum exists, but refuses to synchronize.”

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#trendfollowing #systematictrading #managedfutures #CTAperformance #futuresmarkets #outlierhunting #quantitativefinance #volatility
This Week in Trend – From Friction to Fragmentation – Traders Outpost
“Momentum exists, but refuses to synchronize.” The first week of November unfolded as a tug-of-war between persistence and breakdown. Energy and volatility found renewed strength, but risk assets f…
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November 8, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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The Perfection Paradox: Why AI Cannot Awaken

"Only what can die can learn what it means to live.
And only what can err can learn what it means to know."

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#AI #Consciousness #ComplexSystems #PhilosophyOfMind
The Perfection Paradox: Why AI Cannot Awaken – Traders Outpost
Only what can die can learn what it means to live.And only what can err can learn what it means to know. “Perfection is stillness. Consciousness is the motion that corrects it.” From Reflexivity to…
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November 5, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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In this month’s Turtle Talk, we discuss our brand new book, The Aussie Turtles Trend Following Guide.

Amazon: amazon.com.au/Aussie-Turtl...

Listen to the podcast: aussieturtles.com/episode-008-...

#TrendFollowing #SystematicTrading #AussieTurtles #BookLaunch
November 4, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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The Composer’s Mind: How Creativity Mirrors the Market

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“Each of us is composing our own melody, but together we form the symphony.”

#FractalFinance #TrendFollowing #ComplexSystems #MusicAndMarkets
The Composer’s Mind: How Creativity Mirrors the Market – Traders Outpost
I do not seek. I find.” – Pablo Picasso “Each of us is composing our own melody, but together we form the symphony.” The Sound Before the Song Every symphony begins the same way the market do…
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November 3, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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The Golden Horizon of Trend

📊 ATS Classic – Trend Report: October 2025
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#TrendFollowing #KizunaMarkets #NikkeiBreakout #ProcessOverPrediction
ATS Classic – Trend Report: October 2025 – Traders Outpost
“As the sun rises over Tokyo, the market whispers ‘Kizuna’ — the bond that ties momentum, patience, and renewal into one continuous trend.” About the ATS Classic Trend Benchmarking Portfolio The AT…
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November 3, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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It’s here! We’ve published a book.

The Aussie Turtles Trend Following Guide is not a system, it’s a philosophy.

Available on Amazon now: lnkd.in/gmQWxYgn

#TrendFollowing #SystematicTrading #AussieTurtles
November 2, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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From Fire to Fade

The spark that lit early October has cooled.

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#trendfollowing #systematictrading #managedfutures #CTAperformance #outlierhunting #futuresmarkets
This Week in Trend – From Fire to Fade: 31 Oct 2025 – Traders Outpost
“The spark that lit early October has burned to embers.” The final week of October marked a cooling shift in global markets. Energy, once the dominant driver of trend strength, lost its flame as gr…
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November 2, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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The Grammar of Orthodoxy: How Finance Speaks Itself Into Uncertainty

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#trendfollowing #complexsystems #reflexivity #marketstructure
The Grammar of Orthodoxy: How Finance Speaks Itself Into Uncertainty – Traders Outpost
“The market doesn’t speak our language. It becomes it.” A few days ago on LinkedIn, a reader left a comment that stopped me in my tracks. They described what they saw as a kind of syntactic collaps…
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November 2, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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Why Your Drawdowns and Opportunities Are Always Ahead of You
"The market doesn’t reward prediction. It rewards endurance."

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#FractalFinance #TrendFollowing #ComplexSystems #RiskManagement
Why Your Drawdowns and Opportunities Are Always Ahead of You – Traders Outpost
In a fractal world, survival is not about predicting what happens next. It is about staying long enough to meet what inevitably will. “Every branch began as a risk. Every trunk is what survived.” T…
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November 1, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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Clearly, the secret’s out, even the turtles know this book moves faster than the market!

Grab your copy of The Aussie Turtles Trend Following Guide before they finish the next chapter!

www.aussieturtles.com/turtle-tracks/
October 31, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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Episode 008 – “Battle of the Trends, Pyramids, and Outlier Hunting” of the Turtle Talk Podcast drops with a laser-focus on foundations over frills.

Listen here: www.aussieturtles.com/episode-008-...

Explore the book: www.aussieturtles.com/episode-007-...

#AussieTurtles #OutlierHunter
October 31, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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Risk Isn’t Volatility: Why Compression Is the Real Silent Danger

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#MarketFragility #SystemicRisk #TrendFollowing #ConvergentStrategies
Risk Isn’t Volatility: Why Compression Is the Real Silent Danger – Traders Outpost
“The market does not explode from chaos. It cracks under calm.” This piece builds directly on the insights shared in When Markets Breathe: Efficiency, Compression, and the Geometry of Fragili…
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October 28, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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Trends Don’t Form Randomly, They Form Reflexively

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#TrendFollowing #Fractals #Reflexivity #SystematicTrading #OutlierHunting #ProcessOverPrediction
Trends Don’t Form Randomly. They Form Reflexively ft. Richard Brennan
Rich and Niels trace how feedback and fractals create trends, debate risk sizing, and read volatility from compression to outliers.
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October 28, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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When Markets Breathe
“Equilibrium is an illusion. Even stillness hides motion when the slope is near its limit.”

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#FractalsOfFinance #Bouchaud #PerBak #ComplexSystems #TrendFollowing #Reflexivity #MarketStructure
When Markets Breathe: Efficiency, Compression, and the Geometry of Fragility – Traders Outpost
Inspired by Jean-Philippe Bouchaud’s “Self-Organized Criticality in Economics & Finance” (2025) Optimization is the hidden engine of fragility. “Equilibrium is an illusion. Even stillness hides…
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October 27, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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Beyond Reflexivity: Why AI Still Doesn’t Understand Itself

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#AI #Consciousness #Reflexivity #Neuroscience #Philosophy #SystematicTrading #Embodiment #Adaptation #McGilchrist #AnilSeth #FractalsOfFinance
Beyond Reflexivity: Why AI Still Doesn’t Understand Itself – Traders Outpost
“Intelligence without boundaries is not intelligence at all. It is computation without consequence.” “It sees everything except itself.”   Preface This essay continues the inquiry begun in “Re…
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October 23, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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From Impact to Fractal: How Markets Build Themselves from the Bottom Up

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#Fractals #TrendFollowing #ComplexSystems #MarketStructure
From Impact to Fractal: How Markets Build Themselves from the Bottom Up – Traders Outpost
“The market, like water, remembers every touch. Each impact shapes the next wave.” From Impact to Fractal: How Markets Build Themselves from the Bottom Up Every price move begins with a decision.A …
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October 22, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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From Frames to Trends: How Fractals Create Structure

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#FractalsOfFinance #FeedbackLoops #ComplexAdaptiveSystems #MarketStructure
From Frames to Trends: How Fractals Create Structure – Traders Outpost
“What looks like noise in one frame becomes structure in another.” Seeing Order in the Noise At first glance, a market chart appears chaotic.Prices rise and fall without pattern, surging and collap…
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October 21, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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Rising Stars and Trend Titans – September 2025

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#TrendFollowing #SystematicInvesting #ManagedFutures #QuantitativeTrading
Rising Stars and Trend Titans: September 2025 – Traders Outpost
Introduction September delivered the breakout that systematic trend followers had been waiting for. After months of fragmented participation, broad-based momentum returned, driving performance shar…
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October 21, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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Battle of the Trend Following Indexes – September 2025

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#TrendFollowing #CTAs #ManagedFutures #SystematicInvesting
October 21, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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Patterns, Structure, and the Fractal Nature of Outliers
"A reflection on why markets move, and what most traders overlook."

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#FractalMarkets #TrendFollowing #OutlierHunting
Patterns, Structure, and the Fractal Nature of Outliers – Traders Outpost
“Trends are patterns. Outliers are structure.” Introduction – Seeing Beyond the Surface Markets are full of patterns. Prices rise, fall, and repeat. We draw lines, name formations, and …
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October 21, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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The Gaussian Cathedral falls quietly. In its ruins, the living fractals of truth take root.

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#FractalFinance #ComplexSystems #TrendFollowing #Uncertainty #MarketStructure #OutlierHunting #GaussianFall
October 17, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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Reflexivity and the Limits of Artificial Intelligence

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#TrendFollowing #ArtificialIntelligence #ComplexSystems #Reflexivity #OutlierHunter #ProcessOverPrediction
Reflexivity and the Limits of Artificial Intelligence – Traders Outpost
A Companion to “The End of Prediction” “Artificial intelligence does not predict the market.It accelerates its evolution.” Beyond the Comfort of Certainty For decades, financial science has been bu…
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October 15, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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The End of Prediction

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#trendfollowing #complexsystems #marketstructure #adaptivemarkets #aussieturtles #outlierhunting #systematictrading #fractalfinance #theendofprediction
The End of Prediction: Proof from the Data – Traders Outpost
“When the illusion of prediction breaks, the process begins.” The Premise For decades, finance has been built on the comforting belief that markets are predictable if we can only find the right mod…
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October 14, 2025 at 2:55 AM