

Michael Covel's Trend Following
Michael Covel
Bestselling author Michael Covel is the host of Trend Following Radio with 15+ million listens. Investments, economics, psychology, politics, decision-making, human behavior, entrepreneurship and trading -- all passionately explored and debated. Guests include Nobel Prize winners: Robert Aumann, Angus Deaton, Daniel Kahneman, Oliver Hart, Harry Markowitz & Vernon Smith. More guests: Jack Canfield, Howard Marks, James Altucher, Dan Ariely, Jean-Philippe Bouchaud, Kathleen Eisenhardt, Marc Faber, Tim Ferriss, Jason Fried, Gerd Gigerenzer, Larry Hite, Sally Hogshead, Ryan Holiday, Jack Horner, Ewan Kirk, Steven Kotler, Michael Mauboussin, Tucker Max, Barry Ritholtz, Jim Rogers, Jack Schwager, Ed Seykota, Philip Tetlock & Walter Williams. 1200+ episodes.
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Mar 9, 2015 • 46min
Ep. 325: Trend Following Attitude with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
Please enjoy my monologue Trend Following Attitude with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio. This episode may also include great outside guests from my archive. --- 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/ 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!

Mar 6, 2015 • 36min
Ep. 324: David Stockman Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
My guest today is David Stockman. Those that follow business and politics in the United States will recognize his name. Stockman has been a businessman, a Congressman, and Director of the Office of Management and Budget under President Ronald Reagan. The topic is his book The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America. In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss: Woodrow Wilson piece How Wilson brought the US into World War I and how the pain of the 1930's and the pivot point of the 20th century was connected Why the ATM's going dark in 2008 wasn't a true possibility Zero interest rate policy and how we're forcing people to spend down principal How the Fed can generate massive bubbles Jump in! --- 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/ 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!

Mar 2, 2015 • 45min
Ep. 323: Jerry Parker Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
My guest today is Jerry Parker, an original Turtle, trained by Richard Dennis. However, since then he has very successfully run a managed money firm called Chesapeake Capital. The topic is Trend Following. In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss: Series of tweets written by Parker and use them as a jumping-off point for conversation. Topics include price action, "normal" market behavior Recent moves in the Swiss Franc Paying attention to entries as well as exits Why investors are often their own worst enemy The first moment that Parker heard about price-based trading Becoming obsessed with asymmetrical risk and reward Why looking at trend following losses is important Why you can tell a system is robust if it has big drawdowns Backtesting and treating all trades with equal weight Jump in! --- 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/ 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!

Feb 27, 2015 • 40min
Ep. 322: Sophia Roosth Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
My guest today is Sophia Roosth, a Harvard professor that Covel first heard quoted on DNA privacy from Davos. Roosth's research focuses on the twentieth and twenty-first century life sciences. Her first book, based on four years of ethnographic fieldwork, examines how the life sciences are changing at a moment when researchers build new biological systems in order to investigate how biology works. In this work, Roosth asks what happens to "life" as a conceptual category when experimentation and fabrication converge. The topic is science. In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss: Davos event What becomes of privacy in a moment of internet surveillance Having more information out there as a way to control privacy Biological privacy, and whether our DNA is going down a path where it's a lot more public Discrimination based on genome Genetic McCarthyism Somatic transfer and cloning The story of Chance the bull The idea of de-extinction The ethics of cloning Molecular gastronomy and world hunger Jump in! --- 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/ 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!

Feb 23, 2015 • 49min
Ep. 321: Michael Lardon Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
My guest today is Michael Lardon, one of the premier mental performance coaches in the world, with clients in more than a dozen professional and Olympic sports. His athletes have won major golf championships, Olympic gold medals, Super Bowls and World Series titles, among other achievements. He is an Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of California San Diego and a Consulting Psychiatrist to the United States Olympic Teams at the Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista, CA. The topic is mental performance coaching. In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss: Lardon's early experiences playing professional table tennis; the "slowing down of time" and how it affects performance The importance of mental performance in sports Phil Mickelson's loss at the 2013 Open and his win at the British Open a month later, and how Lardon was assisting him during this period "The yips", and what is going on in the mind when someone can no longer perform a simple activity they used to accomplish easily Neurological vs. psychological "yips" Lardon's opinion on what's happening with Tiger Woods currently Narrow, intense focus vs. dropping the intense expenditure of energy when you don't need it (ie. what do you do with your downtime?) The process of desensitization The deliberate plan for improvement and the importance of writing things down Jump in! --- 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/ 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!

Feb 20, 2015 • 33min
Ep. 320: Mike Shell Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
Please enjoy Mike Shell Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio. --- 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/ 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!

Feb 16, 2015 • 46min
Ep. 319: Salem Abraham Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
My guest today is Salem Abraham, the President of Abraham Trading Company with a 27-year track record. Salem graduated cum laude from the University of Notre Dame in December 1987 with a bachelor's degree in finance. He began his investing career as a futures trader while still in college, using quantitative models to trade global futures markets beginning in 1987. The topic is Trend Following. In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss: Living in Asia and Asian economics A market lesson Abraham first learned in 1987 The recent action of the Swiss Franc Artificially priced markets and the analogy of a dam Crude Oil as a trend Speculation at the core of Abraham's business and its effect on markets generally The effect of Abraham's grandfather on his work The influences on Abraham's thinking and business decisions Location independence The importance of a link to the outside world Avoiding disaster Being agnostic to the market Jump in! --- 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/ 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!

Feb 13, 2015 • 45min
Ep. 318: Christopher Chabris Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
My guest today is Christopher Chabris, an American research psychologist, currently Associate Professor of Psychology and co-director of the Neuroscience Program at Union College in Schenectady, New York, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Neurology at Albany Medical College and a Research Affiliate at the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence. The topic is his book The Invisible Gorilla: How Our Intuitions Deceive Us. In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss: Witnesses, memory, and the legal system Expert witness testimony "The play that changed poker" Mastery in any field The connection between chess and memory Chabris' interaction with Neil deGrasse Tyson, and how memory affects our outlook The stock market, prediction, and forecasting The importance of confidence with regard to predictions Simple rules vs. complex rules Oprah Winfrey, Malcolm Gladwell, and intuition Memory and the influx of information coming at us Jump in! --- 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/ 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!

Feb 9, 2015 • 31min
Ep. 317: Michael Covel Monologue and Peter Shankman Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
Please enjoy my monologue Michael Covel Monologue and Peter Shankman Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio. This episode may also include great outside guests from my archive. --- 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/ 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!

Feb 6, 2015 • 33min
Ep. 316: Gary Antonacci Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
My guest today is Gary Antonacci. Antonacci focuses on two issues in the quant world: relative strength price momentum with trend following absolute momentum. He's developed a strategy where he believes it's best to combine both. The topic is his book Dual Momentum Investing: An Innovative Strategy for Higher Returns with Lower Risk. In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss: Momentum vs. trend Relative strength momentum, cross sectional momentum, absolute momentum, and time series momentum Trend following vs. managed futures as terms Antonacci's early history and how he found his way into the career he has today Three legendary traders that crossed paths with Antonacci early on The efficient market hypothesis as a less-than-solid foundation Buying higher highs Ray Dalio and risk parity strategies Academic perspectives on momentum The interaction and correlation between the two momentum strategies (relative and absolute) Jump in! --- 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/ 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!


