A few pointers
Firstly, Michael Covel's books may be an interesting read, but I'm sure there's nothing in his expensive courses which can't be found for free online. I've never met anyone who has been pleased with these types of purchases, nor with those seminars. I wouldn't go as far as to accuse him of being a snake oil salesman - but there you go.
You should read Curtis Faith's "Way of the turtle" if you haven't done so and also read his forum over at Tradingblox. As an aside, while very expensive, Tradingblox software may save you months/years of research and testing (I've never used it though...)
Read the Blackstar funds paper "Does trend following work on stocks?"
Trend following is a good way to get rich slowly. The returns are far too lumpy for it to generate a reliable income though. Don't overestimate your ability to whether drawdowns. Very few people can continue to trade daily after they've entered the second year of a drawdown. I started a basic TF system with equities (long only) in the summer of 2007. You can guess how great the backtesting went over the preceding decades, and what happened as soon as I went live. I think my immediate drawdown lasted 2 years and 2 months and was deeper and longer than anything I found in 30 years of backtesting. This is backtesting agreeing with sod's law.
Spreadbetting is not an efficient way to follow long-term trends. The financing costs will kill your account. Even if you're successful, it's highly likely the broker will make much more money from you than you do from the market. My investigations suggest that TF works better on longer time frames these days than in the days of the Turtles.