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Rich Brennan
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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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The Fog That Does Not Lift

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#TrendFollowing #SystematicTrading #RiskManagement #ComplexityScience
Inhabiting Uncertainty: The Practice of Not Knowing – Traders Outpost
How to act decisively while accepting that certainty is not available The Fog That Does Not Lift There is a kind of fog that lifts. You wait, conditions change, and clarity returns. The path that w…
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February 3, 2026 at 10:41 PM
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The Geometry of Survival

Part 11 of our series.
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#TrendFollowing #RiskManagement #SystematicTrading #OutlierHunter
Position Sizing: The Geometry of Survival – Traders Outpost
Why how much you risk matters more than what you risk it on The Load A bridge can bear a certain weight. Below that threshold, traffic flows safely. Above it, the structure fails. The failure is no…
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February 1, 2026 at 9:56 PM
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Record Start to 2026: ATS Classic Benchmark Delivers Strongest Month Yet

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#TrendFollowing #SystematicTrading #FuturesTrading #ManagedFutures
February 1, 2026 at 7:11 AM
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🎙 Why Most Equity Returns Come From Just a Handful of Stocks

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#TrendFollowing #SystematicTrading #OutlierHunter #AussieTurtles
February 1, 2026 at 12:59 AM
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Precious Metals Collapse as Energy Extends Historic Rally | This Week in Trend

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#TrendFollowing #SystematicTrading #NaturalGas #MarketAnalysis
January 31, 2026 at 9:37 AM
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The Market Has No Single Character

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#QuantitativeFinance #RiskManagement #MarketStructure #SystemsThinking
January 30, 2026 at 7:28 PM
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The Fractals of Finance is now available on Kindle.

This book explores how complex systems create the trends, outliers, and opportunities that systematic traders pursue.

Foreword by Jerry Parker, Original Turtle Trader.

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January 29, 2026 at 10:48 PM
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Complex Adaptive Markets is now available on Kindle.

Foreword by Jerry Parker.

If you've ever wondered why trend following works when it "shouldn't" according to conventional theory, this is the book that answers that question.

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January 29, 2026 at 10:46 PM
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The Crossing You Don't See Coming

Article 9 in our series.
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#SystematicTrading #TrendFollowing #RiskManagement #ComplexityScience
The Regime Shift: Recognising Transition in Real Time – Traders Outpost
How to distinguish regime change from noise while the transition is still unfolding   The Crossing A river begins as rainfall scattered across a mountain range. Where each drop lands determine…
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January 28, 2026 at 7:57 PM
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My book The Fractals of Finance is now available.

Markets are not random. They are alive.

Complexity science meets systematic trading practice.

Foreword by Jerry Parker, Original Turtle Trader.

Hardcover & paperback now. Kindle pre-order open.

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The Fractals of Finance: Determinism, Adaptation and the Geometry of Markets
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January 27, 2026 at 2:56 AM
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When the Response Becomes the Cause

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#MarketStructure #RiskManagement #FinancialMarkets #ComplexSystems
January 26, 2026 at 10:43 PM
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The Volatility Surface: What Options Reveal About Structure – Traders Outpost
How the options market makes the invisible geometry of states visible The Map Sailors once navigated by charts that showed coastlines, depths, and hazards. The chart was not the ocean. But it encod…
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January 24, 2026 at 8:06 PM
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Natural gas just posted its largest weekly gain since 1990.

Full analysis in this week's report 👇
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This Week in Trend – Natural Gas Posts Historic Surge as Metals Extend Rally – Traders Outpost
History made. Metals dominant. Defence emerging. The fourth week of January delivered an outlier for the record books. Natural gas surged approximately 70 percent as an Arctic outbreak gripped the …
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January 24, 2026 at 9:21 AM
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Trend followers closed 2025 on a strong note.

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Trend Followers Close 2025 on a High Note – Traders Outpost
December delivered the strongest monthly performance of the quarter for systematic trend followers, providing a decisive finish to what was otherwise a transitional year. Our latest TTU Trend Follo…
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January 23, 2026 at 11:22 PM
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Battle of the Trend Following Indexes – December 2025

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#TrendFollowing #ManagedFutures #SystematicInvesting #OutlierHunter
January 23, 2026 at 2:32 AM
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December closed out 2025 with conviction.

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#ManagedFutures #TrendFollowing #SystematicTrading #AlternativeInvestments
Rising Stars and Trend Titans: December 2025 – Traders Outpost
Introduction December closed out 2025 with a decisive acceleration. After months of selective, range-bound conditions, trend structure expanded sharply and participation broadened. The year ended n…
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January 23, 2026 at 1:15 AM
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The Invisible Landscape

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#MarketStructure #ComplexSystems #TrendFollowing #Volatility #OutlierHunting
Strange Attractors: The Geometry of Market States – Traders Outpost
Why markets gravitate toward characteristic configurations and transition suddenly between them   The Landscape Imagine a marble rolling across a landscape of hills and valleys. Release the ma…
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January 22, 2026 at 10:06 PM
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Liquidity is not a pool. It is a rate.

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#MarketStructure #Liquidity #RiskManagement #SystematicTrading
January 20, 2026 at 7:19 PM
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The Same Fall, Different Landings

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#MarketStructure #Nonlinearity #RiskArchitecture #TrendFollowing
The Three Declines: Why Markets Respond Differently to the Same Shock – Traders Outpost
How the same percentage move can produce absorption, transition, or amplification   The Same Fall, Different Landings Drop a stone into a pond and the water absorbs it. The surface dimples, ri…
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January 18, 2026 at 9:26 PM
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Silver surges. Trends stabilise. Breadth begins to return.

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#TrendFollowing #SystematicTrading #MarketStructure #OutlierHunting
This Week in Trend – Silver Surges as Trends Stabilise: 16th January 2026 – Traders Outpost
Strength returns. Breadth improves. Precision still required. The third week of January delivered confirmation rather than surprise. What began last week as tentative recovery evolved into genuine …
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January 17, 2026 at 9:23 AM
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The Edge Is Architecture

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#TradingPhilosophy #SystematicTrading #RiskManagement #Uncertainty
The Spider’s Web: Preparation vs. Prediction – Traders Outpost
Why the most effective response to uncertainty is not forecasting but architecture The Trap At dawn, the spider builds again. It does not hunt with teeth or claws. Its edge lies in the geometry it …
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January 16, 2026 at 10:19 PM
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Memory Without a Mind: How Markets Remember What Traders Forget

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#MarketStructure #TrendFollowing #ComplexSystems #PathDependence
Memory Without a Mind: How Markets Remember What Traders Forget – Traders Outpost
Why structure holds what data cannot, and what this means for how markets respond   The River’s Memory A river does not think. It has no model of the world, no beliefs about rainfall, no…
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January 14, 2026 at 7:27 PM
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The Metronome Effect: Why Markets Suddenly Move Together

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January 12, 2026 at 10:13 PM
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"Memory does not live in minds alone. It lives wherever the past quietly limits what can happen next."

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#Markets #TradingPhilosophy #SystematicTrading #ComplexSystems
The Market Has Memory, But No Mind: Why History Shapes Outcomes Without Intention – Traders Outpost
“Memory does not live in minds alone. It lives wherever the past quietly limits what can happen next.” Markets are often described as forgetful. Participants change. Capital turns over. Positions a…
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January 10, 2026 at 10:18 PM
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The End of Globalization. The Return of Persistent Trends.

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The Systematic Investor SI382: The End of Globalization, the Rise of Trends ft. Richard Brennan – Traders Outpost
In my recent conversation with Niels Kaastrup-Larsen, we stepped back from day-to-day market noise and looked at something more structural. The globalised world that compressed cycles, smoot…
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January 10, 2026 at 9:16 AM