Richard Dennis: 

Are great traders born with a natural gift, or can trading success be taught? In this episode of the IUX Podcast, we explore the legendary story of commodities trader Richard Dennis and his famous 1983 Turtle Trading experiment.

To test whether trading discipline could be taught, Dennis recruited a group of complete beginners (nicknamed the "Turtles") and trained them in a simple, rule-based trend-following system. By providing them with The participants were provided with a structured set of trading rules and capital as part of the historical experiment, the historical experiment provided an example of how systematic rules and discipline were incorporated into the participants' trading approach.

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