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"Source guide for finance practitioners who invest in or give financial advice related to trend following strategy. Discusses trend following basics, theoretical foundations of trend following, trend following as an alternative asset class, benchmarking and factor decomposition, trend following in an investment portfolio, and advanced topics"-- Provided by publisher.