Michael Covel's Trend Following

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Ep. 190: Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio Dec 06, 2013

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Please enjoy my monologue Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio. This episode may also include great outside guests from my archive.

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I'm MICHAEL COVEL, the host of TREND FOLLOWING RADIO, and I'm proud to have delivered 10+ million podcast listens since 2012. Investments, economics, psychology, politics, decision-making, human behavior, entrepreneurship and trend following are all passionately explored and debated on my show.

To start? I'd like to give you a great piece of advice you can use in your life and trading journey… cut your losses! You will find much more about that philosophy here: https://www.trendfollowing.com/trend/

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Ep. 189: Kathy Kristof Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio Dec 04, 2013

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My guest today is Kathy Kristof, editor of SideHusl.com, is an award-winning financial journalist, who writes regularly for Kiplinger's Personal Finance and CBS MoneyWatch. She's the author of Investing 101, Taming the Tuition Tiger and Kathy Kristof's Complete Book of Dollars and Sense.

The topic is finance.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

If we have bubbles, and we keep having bubbles, what does the average investor do?
The difficulty of trying to figure out value today
The impact of interest rates on investors; the "nervousness" of stocks
Government intervention and trust
Why investors are better off with a "softer" job market, and a slower recovery
Why we have a "Goldilocks" economy, and what might happen if a black swan swoops in
Why almost every strategy will have good results at some time or another, and the importance of picking a strategy for yourself
Technology, and the connection to entrepreneurial pursuits

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Ep. 188: Hendry, Harding, The Pope and Acroyoga with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio Dec 02, 2013

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Please enjoy my monologue Hendry, Harding, The Pope and Acroyoga with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio. This episode may also include great outside guests from my archive.

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You can watch a free video here: https://www.trendfollowing.com/video/

Can't get enough of this episode? You can choose from my thousand plus episodes here: https://www.trendfollowing.com/podcast

My social media platforms: Twitter: @covel Facebook: @trendfollowing LinkedIn: @covel Instagram: @mikecovel

Hope you enjoy my never-ending podcast conversation!

Ep. 187: Charles Faulkner Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio Nov 30, 2013

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My guest today is Charles Faulkner, an author, trader, and international expert on modeling the knowledge and performance of exceptional individuals. He was originally featured in "The New Market Wizards" by Jack Schwager.

The topic is trading psychology.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

Behavior, emotions, decision-making, and intuition in the world of money--and what money does to us on a biological level
Neurolinguistic Programming
How money in the mind influences money in the world
The schizophrenic-seeming handout to the two recent Nobel Prize winners
"System one" and "system two"
How "one" is running all the time, how "two" takes effort--and where Faulkner hopes to take this research
How experience can teach "system one"
New lightbulb moments in current research
How the "afraid to lose" (or in Singapore, Kiasu) concept could be terribly dangerous when applied to money
Why the less you know about something, the clearer the image--and the more certain you are that it's real and true
The need for certainty
Money as a living metaphor; sunk costs
The Myers-Briggs instrument
Rituals and money

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Ep. 186: Mikael Stenbom Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio Nov 29, 2013

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My guest today is Mikael Stenbom, the CEO and founder of RPM, which is an advisory consulting firm in Sweden. They advise, consult, or manage over 3.5B AUM. Stenbom has had tremendous experience in understanding strategy and the money management side of the CTA/managed futures world.

The topic is CTA's.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

Stenbom's early influences
Stenbom's economics background
Connections between economics, trading, and sociology
The Austrian school of economics
His style of responsive, systematic trading to new clients
Andrew Lo's Adaptive Markets Hypothesis
The process of rebranding Stenbom's firm in 2008
The "politically infected" investor
The cultural compatibility between Nordic countries and the Japanese

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Ep. 185: Tom DeMark Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio Nov 27, 2013

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My guest today is Tom DeMark, the founder and CEO of DeMark Analytics and the creator of the DeMark Indicators. The DeMARK studies are known internationally for their objective and mechanically-driven approach to both trading and investing, and are designed to anticipate potential price activity in the financial markets.

The topic is Trend Following.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

How all conceivable market factors are in the price movement
Obsession, passion and practice
Having the "cover story" of fundamentals, but using technical analysis behind the scenes
Elliott wave
The fibonacci sequence
Forecasting
DeMark's thoughts on George Soros, Michael Steinhardt, Paul Jones, Steve Cohen, and others
Thoughts on when DeMark first started computerizing his indicators
Why you'll fail if you rely solely on charts
DeMark's thoughts on the pure price driven, reactive trend following traders
Introducing a new variable into a pure trend following approach

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Ep. 184: Cal Newport Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio Nov 24, 2013

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My guest today is Cal Newport, an American non-fiction author and associate professor of computer science at Georgetown University.

The topic is passion.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

Alan Watts
Why following your passion isn't such a great idea from Newport's perspective
The notion of deliberate practice and the 10000 hour rule, falling back on simplistic strategies that fail
Passion following success as the true gauge
Misconceptions about passion
Thinking of passion as a side-effect of running your career in the right way
Overcoming difficulty as a necessary step in the process
The work and analysis Newport has done looking at top chess players
The systematic aspect of gaining skill and its ties to passion
Anxiety and failure

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Ep. 183: Yaron Brook Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio Nov 22, 2013

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My guest today is Yaron Brook, an Israeli-American entrepreneur, writer, and activist. He is an Objectivist and the current chairman of the board at the Ayn Rand Institute, where he is the executive director.

The topic is liberty.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

Trading
The nature of altruism
The idea and definitions of selfishness in the context of objectivism
The power of ideas
The idea of being a victim
Schools, teaching, and political teaching
Entitlement leading to victimhood
The rise of state power, the ambitious poor, and the minimum wage
Free work and internships
Alan Greenspan
America compared to Singapore

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Hope you enjoy my never-ending podcast conversation!

Ep. 182: Cambodia, Picasso & Bubbles with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio Nov 17, 2013

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Please enjoy my monologue Cambodia, Picasso & Bubbles with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio. This episode may also include great outside guests from my archive.

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You can watch a free video here: https://www.trendfollowing.com/video/

Can't get enough of this episode? You can choose from my thousand plus episodes here: https://www.trendfollowing.com/podcast

My social media platforms: Twitter: @covel Facebook: @trendfollowing LinkedIn: @covel Instagram: @mikecovel

Hope you enjoy my never-ending podcast conversation!

Ep. 181: Fear, Snakes and Markets with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio Nov 11, 2013

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Please enjoy my monologue Fear, Snakes and Markets with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio. This episode may also include great outside guests from my archive.

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You can watch a free video here: https://www.trendfollowing.com/video/

Can't get enough of this episode? You can choose from my thousand plus episodes here: https://www.trendfollowing.com/podcast

My social media platforms: Twitter: @covel Facebook: @trendfollowing LinkedIn: @covel Instagram: @mikecovel

Hope you enjoy my never-ending podcast conversation!