Ep. 208: Ed Seykota Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

My guest today is Ed Seykota, a commodities trader, who earned S.B. degrees in Electrical Engineering from MIT and Management from the MIT Sloan School of Management, both in 1969. In 1970 he pioneered Systems trading by using early punched card computers to test ideas on trading the markets.

The topic is his book Govopoly in the 39th Day.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

• Trend Following
• Seykota's concerns about our economy
• The assimilation model and how Seykota sees assimilation happening today
• The definition of "govopoly"
• How Seykota's mentor's work plays into Seykota's work today
• Thinking about systems
• What we can do to "fix" the economy, or to at least prepare yourself
• The exponential curve that assimilation takes
• Noticing things before they're important
• Why Seykota doesn't provide a "solution" to the problem and instead advocates for the system to correct itself
• What we can do as people in response to the system
• Detroit as a microcosm of the US
• Ways to make money during the assimilation

Jump in!

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