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Ep. 140: Tom Asacker Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio Jul 25, 2013

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My guest today is Tom Asacker, an artist, writer, inventor, and philosopher. He writes, teaches, and speaks about radically new practices and ideas for success in times of uncertainty and change.

The topic is his book The Business of Belief: How the World's Best Marketers, Designers, Salespeople, Coaches, Fundraisers, Educators, Entrepreneurs, and Other Leaders Get Us To Believe.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

Choice and distraction/distrust
Belief and its connection to how people make decisions and habit
Faith healers and how information can change our beliefs and perceptions
How the supermarket works as a metaphor for belief and choice
Vernon Smith and Daniel Kahneman
The instinctive "feeling" mind vs. the slow, deliberate thinking mind
Leading people to choose themselves vs. just getting a job
Thinking like a child
Comfort vs. desire
Why those that have nothing to lose can put themselves in the best position for success
Pulling the curtain back on your own mind to determine what your own mind is doing to prevent you from living a full life
The power shift to the individual via the internet
Why we see what our minds are conditioned to see
Practice, hard work, and passion
The metaphor of baseball, perception, belief, and behavior
Thinking your way to a change vs. acting your way to a change
Alan Watts, and the question of "What if money was no object?"

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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.

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Ep. 139: Steve Burns Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio Jul 19, 2013

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My guest today is Steve Burns. Burns has been investing and trading in the stock market successfully for many years. He is the author of seventeen books about the stock market. He is one of the top reviewers for books about trading and investing, having read and reviewed several hundred books.

The topic is trading.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

Risk management
Position sizing
The magic of compounding
Why individual trades have very little meaning
Turning down the volume on your emotions in your trades
How your losses can be an education
Concept and theory with regard to trend following
Quantifying and capturing trends
"Just trading the numbers"
Greed and fear in the context of trends
The common attitudes and misconceptions of novice to trend following traders
Trading against the market vs. trading against yourself
Drawdowns, and the importance of studying the track records of the great traders
Entry and exit strategies
The importance of starting "right" in every enterprise
The curse of laziness
Ignoring the talking heads
Why you don't need 20 screens on your desk to trade optimally
Cutting your losses
The 1% rule
Being blinded by the fundamentals
Why if you diversify, control your risk, and go with the trend, it just has to work
I.Q. vs. emotional intelligence (E.Q.)
Technology and long term trend following

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Ep. 138: Gimp Investing with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio Jul 19, 2013

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

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Ep. 137: Right & Wrong Answers with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio Jul 15, 2013

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Please enjoy my monologue Right & Wrong Answers 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

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Ep. 136: Money, Money, Money with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio Jul 07, 2013

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Please enjoy my monologue Money, Money, Money 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

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Ep. 135: The Complete TurtleTrader Audiobook Afterword with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio Jul 02, 2013

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Please enjoy my monologue The Complete TurtleTrader Audiobook Afterword with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio. This episode may also include great outside guests from my archive.

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Ep. 134: Brendan Moynihan Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio Jul 01, 2013

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My guest today is Brendan Moynihan, an editor-at-large for Bloomberg News, where he manages the popular column Chart of the Day and writes about the economy and Wall Street. He has been with the company since 2007 after spending more than twenty years on Wall Street as a trader and risk manager.

The topic is his book What I Learned Losing a Million Dollars.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

How Moynihan's background, the background of his subject, Jim Paul, and how the two came together in "What I Learned Losing a Million Dollars"
The psychology of loss and what we can learn from losing
The idea that you "just have to make the money" and why that can be a bad place to start as a motivator
Personalizing loss
Paul's interactions with Rich Dennis
Studying the contradictions of great traders, and how loss is the only topic they agree on
Controlling how much you can lose
Staying the course and the importance of not changing your strategy mid-stream
Profit motive vs. prophet motive
The difference between investors, traders, speculators, bettors, and gamblers
The slippery slope of always wanting to be "right"
The five stages of internal loss
The danger of personalizing your success
The difference between discrete events vs. continuous events
The "uncle" point
Why it's important to go broke at least once in your life
The difference between emotions and emotionalism

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Ep. 133: The Complete TurtleTrader Audiobook Excerpt with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio Jun 28, 2013

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Please enjoy my monologue The Complete TurtleTrader Audiobook Excerpt 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/

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Hope you enjoy my never-ending podcast conversation!

Ep. 132: Emotional Rescue with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio Jun 25, 2013

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Please enjoy my monologue Emotional Rescue 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. 131: Predictions, Dreams, Fantasies with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio Jun 22, 2013

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Please enjoy my monologue Predictions, Dreams, Fantasies 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/

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

Hope you enjoy my never-ending podcast conversation!