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Ep. 509: Van Tharp Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Michael Covel's Trend Following

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The Advantage of Certain Points in Time

I think he was channeling somebody who was answering my questions. That's my opinion on what was going on. But Ed, let me put it in a different perspective. And I'll talk about why Ed was one of the greatest traders ever because he had a super edge at a time when he was the only person who had that edge. He was a computerized trend follower. All his programs were written in assembly language. Nobody writes in assembly language, but I guess in MIT in the 1960s, he was. So all his program, he was computerized trendollower with all these programs written in assembly languages. When nobody else was doing that, that was a huge, huge edge

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