Michael W. Covel is an entrepreneur, author, researcher, public speaker, educator and trader. He has been consulting to individual investors and traders, hedge funds and banks since 1997. His first book was the best selling Trend Following: How Great Traders Make Millions in Up or Down Markets (Prentice Hall, May 2004 and Nov 2005). It profiles great trend followers who have won millions if not billions in the market. Trend Following is currently available in German, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and French translations with Russian and Arabic in the works.