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Rich Brennan

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This Week in Trend - When the Tide Turns

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#trendfollowing #managedfutures #CTAperformance #systematictrading

November 22, 2025 at 8:43 AM

Rich Brennan

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Why does the “smartest” trade often fail when everyone else is smart too?

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#SystemicRisk #AdaptiveMarkets #ReflexiveFinance #ComplexityThinking

The Optimisation Trap: Why Markets Break When Too Many People Try To Be Smart – Traders Outpost

Markets do not usually fail because participants behave irrationally.They fail because many participants behave intelligently in the same way.When intelligence converges, resilience disappears and …

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November 22, 2025 at 12:24 AM

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#TrendFollowing #SystematicInvesting #ManagedFutures #QuantitativeStrategies #RisingStars #TrendTitans #AlternativeInvestments #Markets #Finance

Rising Stars and Trend Titans: October 2025 – Traders Outpost

Introduction October offered a steadier and more measured continuation of the recovery that began in September. The explosive breakout of the prior month gave way to a calmer environment where tren…

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November 21, 2025 at 5:52 AM

Rich Brennan

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The Bar That Outsmarts Everyone: Why Prediction Becomes Force

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#ComplexAdaptiveSystems #MarketStructure #ReflexiveMarkets #EmergentIntelligence

The Bar That Outsmarts Everyone: Why Brian Arthur’s Famous Restaurant Reveals How Belief Becomes Force – Traders Outpost

“When everyone tries to outsmart the crowd, the crowd outsmarts them instead.” There is a small bar in Santa Fe called El Farol that reshaped how we understand human systems. It looks unremarkable …

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November 21, 2025 at 12:06 AM

Rich Brennan

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Have we misunderstood intelligence?

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#ComplexAdaptiveSystems #FractalThinking #EmergentIntelligence #MarketStructure

Have We Misunderstood Intelligence? The Real Force Behind Self Organization – Traders Outpost

“Nature is not thinking. It is remembering.” Look carefully at the world and a strange pattern reveals itself.Everything seems to organise without a mind. Birds ripple across the sky in liquid wave…

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November 19, 2025 at 10:28 PM

Rich Brennan

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Signal, Noise, and the Geometry of Boundaries: How Adaptive Systems Learn to Stay Alive

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#ComplexSystems #TrendFollowing #MarketMicrostructure #AdaptiveIntelligence

November 17, 2025 at 11:58 PM

Rich Brennan

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From Square Roots to Superpowers: The Fractal Bridge of Market Impact

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#TrendFollowing #SystematicTrading #FractalFinance #MarketMicrostructure

November 13, 2025 at 10:07 PM

Rich Brennan

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These quotes capture the heart of our approach. Simple rules, steady discipline, and respect for uncertainty.

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Fave Quotes | Aussie Turtles

“The real gift of trend following isn’t performance. It’s peace.” That’s why Adam Havryliv and Richard Brennan have written their first book: The Aussie Turtles Trend Following Guide. Buy it now o...

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November 12, 2025 at 10:14 PM

Rich Brennan

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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

Rich Brennan

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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

Rich Brennan

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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

Rich Brennan

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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

Rich Brennan

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In this month’s Turtle Talk, we discuss our brand new book, The Aussie Turtles Trend Following Guide.

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#TrendFollowing #SystematicTrading #AussieTurtles #BookLaunch

November 4, 2025 at 11:55 PM

Rich Brennan

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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

Rich Brennan

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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

Rich Brennan

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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.

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#TrendFollowing #SystematicTrading #AussieTurtles

November 2, 2025 at 11:56 PM

Rich Brennan

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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

Rich Brennan

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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

Rich Brennan

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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

Rich Brennan

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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!

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October 31, 2025 at 7:34 AM

Rich Brennan

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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.

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#AussieTurtles #OutlierHunter