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We know that George Washington was the father of our country. But was he also the father of Trend Following investing?

OK. That may be pushing things a little bit, but if you examine the career–especially the military career–Washington did use some essential techniques of great trend followers, like Rich Dennis.

Trend following is an investment strategy that couples risk minimization with return maximization. It does so through a couple key market insights:

• Identify opportunities
• Preserve capital
• Limit risk
• Let your profits run.

Let’s see how some of Washington’s campaigns match up with the trend following philosophy.

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Timujin, a Mongolian child, had been the victim of a string of bad luck.

His father had been murdered. The tribe he belonged to abandoned him on the brutal Mongolian steppes in winter. His family was close to starving.

He wasn’t supposed to live, or become a Khan, let alone become a Khagan (emperor).

But Timujin, or Genghis Khan as history would call him, overcame all those challenges before him to become the emperor of the largest contiguous empire the world had ever seen.

How he did this–and how you can overcome  your own financial challenges–is through guidance based on a set of principles that helped minimize risk and maximize rewards.

This wisdom rests in three simple, but vital ideas.

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