Ep. 117: Charles Faulkner Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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. Faulkner has a new book coming out this fall called "Higher Level Trading: The Five Stages To Trading and Investor Mastery".

The topic is trading psychology.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

• Human behavior and the investor's psyche
• How Faulkner came to put together his newest book, and the qualitative differences between the five levels of experience, knowledge, and understanding
• Developing the different levels of thinking that lead to expertise, and the correct path to take to developing these skills
• Preparation, effort, "doing the work", and the right way to jump into investing
• Some of the commonalities between those profiled in the "New Market Wizards" book
• Ed Seykota's recent statements on day trading
• Behavioral economics
• The idea that the less you know about something the more convinced you are that it is true--and how a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing
• "Perfection seekers", variation, and letting perfection slow you down
• Outliers and the potential to make a change in your thinking
• Efficient markets, Vernon Smith, and bubbles
• Imagery, stories, prediction, and the skill of conceiving multiple scenarios
• Reducing information, and vetting your inputs to find out what information is important and what isn't
• Why we are most influenced by parts of our environment that we are unaware of

Jump in!

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