Please enjoy my monologue The Moment of Now: Zen and the Art of Trend Trading 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?...
Jul 11, 2012•21 min
My guest today is Tom Basso, a trader who was called "Mr. Serenity" when he was profiled in Jack Schwager's "New Market Wizards". Basso was a stock and commodities trader who was president and founder of Trendstat Capital Management. He is the author of two books, "Panic-Proof Investing" and "The Frustrated Investor". Basso became a registered investment advisor in 1980, a registered commodities advisor in 1984, and was elected to the board of the National Futures Association in 1998. Although h...
Jul 05, 2012•4 hr 29 min
Please enjoy my monologue Outside The Box 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 ...
Jul 03, 2012•24 min
My guest today is Mike Dever, an American businessman, futures trader, entrepreneur, and author. Dever is the founder and CEO of Brandywine Asset Management, Inc., an investment management firm founded in 1982. The topic is Trend Following. In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss: Being an entrepreneur from an early age and making his first investments in his early 20s Some of the myths discussed in "Jackass Investing" How everybody is a market timer The stigma against investing in f...
Jul 02, 2012•1 hr 1 min
Please enjoy my monologue Entrepreneurism: The Importance of Not Doing What You're Told 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....
Jun 26, 2012•16 min
My guest today is Scott Patterson, an American financial journalist and bestselling author. Patterson has made a career of reporting the subterranean inner-workings of the markets, writing for the Wall Street Journal, Rolling Stone, and Mother Earth News. His first book, The Quants: How a New Breed of Math Whizzes Conquered Wall Street and Nearly Destroyed It, was released in 2010. The topic is his book Dark Pools: High-Speed Traders, A.I. Bandits, and the Threat to the Global Financial System. ...
Jun 21, 2012•55 min
My guest today is Mebane Faber, a noted author (The Ivy Portfolio), blogger, and portfolio manager with Cambria Investment Management. If you're into quantitative style investing, trend following, and systematic strategies, Mebane is right there with you. Faber grew up in a family full of engineers, and he started off studying biomedical engineering in college. Despite his scientific background, he's always had a strong interest in finance. The topic is his white paper A Quantitative Approach to...
Jun 19, 2012•57 min
Please enjoy my monologue 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 ...
Jun 14, 2012•30 min
My guest today is Tony Bazile of Intrinsic Capital Management, a trend following trader specializing in stocks. He was a professional water skier back into his 20s. The topic is Trend Following. In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss: Bazile's background Dealing with the sheer volume of information on individual stocks How trend following is the strategy, not the instrument Traces the lineage from Richard Dennis to Jerry Parker to Salem Abraham, and from John W. Henry to Ken Tropin ...
Jun 12, 2012•57 min
Please enjoy my monologue 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 ...
Jun 09, 2012•18 min
My guest today is Mike Aponte, a professional blackjack player and a former member of the MIT Blackjack Team. Aponte was featured in the bestselling book "Bringing Down The House" as the player Jason Fisher, which was adapted into the movie "21". The topic is investing. In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss: Due to his systematic approach, he's definitely not a gambler; he's an investor Aponte's beginnings The similarities between systematic card counting and trend trading; the psy...
Jun 08, 2012•1 hr 17 min
Please enjoy my monologue 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 ...
Jun 01, 2012•39 min
My guest today is Timothy Sykes, a penny stock trader and teacher who became a self-made millionaire by the age of 22 by trading $12,415 of bar mitzvah money. After becoming disenchanted with the hedge fund world, he established the Tim Sykes Trading Challenge to teach aspiring traders how to follow his trading strategies. The topic is trading. In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss: Certain systematic approaches that Sykes has used Sykes's early career entry into trading, studying ...
May 30, 2012•39 min
My guest today is Todd Miller, a trader who runs a systematic trend following firm, Availeth Capital, with partner Jim Byers. Availeth is a small fund which was started in February 2011, and Covel relates Miller's start to his chapter in 'The Little Book of Trading' on trader David Druz. The topic is Trend Following. In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss: How Miller got his start working at Fidelity, and how observing the annual returns of one of Fidelity's biggest mutual funds aft...
May 26, 2012•51 min
My guest today is Jack Schwager, an American trader and author. He is the author of the Market Wizard series. His books have remained relevant over the past 25 years, and for many traders they are the best trading books on the shelves today. The topic is his book Hedge Fund Market Wizards. In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss: Some of the commonalities between the many traders Schwager has interviewed, and the lessons that can be gleaned from their diverse approaches Schwager's ne...
May 22, 2012•1 hr 6 min
My guest today is James Rohrbach. Rohrbach has been trading for 40 years, created his RIX index, and runs an educational service at Investment-Models.com. While he calls himself a "market timer", he's a trend follower. The topic is Trend Following. In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss: Why buy and hold is dead, and the psychology behind people desperately clinging onto it Why - even when buy and hold supplies a winning outcome - it still might not be a good strategy Using a 15/30 ...
May 19, 2012•47 min
My guest today is Francisco Vaca, the chairman, CEO, a principal trader for Vaca Capital Management, and a commodity trading advisor (CTA) established in 2000. Vaca began his career in the futures industry in 1996 as an executive researcher for C&D Commodities co-founded by Richard Dennis of “Turtles” fame. His responsibilities included the research and implementation of systematic trading strategies for the futures and equities markets. Dr. Vaca holds a Ph.D. in physics from the University ...
May 18, 2012•1 hr 1 min
Please enjoy my interview 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 ...
May 15, 2012•58 min
My guest today is Douglas Stewart, the founder of Market Concepts, LLC in early 2007. He has a BA in Education from Virginia Commonwealth University. From 1996 to 2002 he worked in the industry as a financial advisor. After the bear market of 2000-2002, he left the regional brokerage firm Scott and Stringfellow and began studying technical analysis and alternative investment strategies. From 2003 to present day, he has researched and developed alternative investment strategies, which his clients...
May 10, 2012•47 min
My guest today is Mark Melin, a managed futures expert, editor/writer for Opalesque, and author. Melin has become a defacto investigative reporter for the MF Global scandal. The topic is managed futures. In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss: Covel and Melin consider the MF Global story from the very beginning, back to the very basics, and discuss the political context, why the story isn't front page news, and how it might effect you in the long run. Jump in! --- I’m MICHAEL COVEL,...
May 04, 2012•54 min
Please enjoy my monologue 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 ...
May 01, 2012•24 min
My guest today is Tim Pickering, founder/president and lead portfolio manager of Auspice Capital. Pickering has over 15 years of commodity and financial trading experience. Prior to forming Auspice, Pickering was Vice President of Options Trading at Shell Trading Gas and Power in the Houston and Calgary offices. He began his career at TD Securities in Toronto in their elite trading development program and gained experience in a wide expanse of capital market products including foreign exchange, ...
Apr 27, 2012•1 hr 3 min
Please enjoy my monologue 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 ...
Apr 25, 2012•24 min
Please enjoy my monologue 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 ...
Apr 13, 2012•25 min
Please enjoy my monologue 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 ...
Apr 11, 2012•33 min
My guests today are Michael Shannon and Jim Byers. Shannon, an original Turtle trader trained by Richard Dennis. He was featured in Michael Covel's The Complete TurtleTrader. Byers is a trader and investor. In the 2006-2008 period, Byers started studying trend following; since then, he's started a fund with his partner, Todd Miller. The topics are the Turtle story and Trend Following. In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss: Shannon's experience in the Turtle program with Richard Den...
Apr 04, 2012•1 hr 18 min
Please enjoy my monologue 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 ...
Mar 30, 2012•25 min
My guest today is Nick Radge. Nick has been trading and investing since 1985. During this time Nick has worked for numerous international investment banks and spent time on the trading floor of the Sydney Futures Exchange. In 1998 Nick returned to Australia and started his own hedge fund and until 2005 he was an Associate Director at Macquarie Bank. The topic is his book Unholy Grails - A New Road to Wealth. In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss: Nick's beginnings The analogy of hi...
Mar 26, 2012•1 hr 9 min
My guest today is Mike Shell, the founder of Shell Capital Management, LLC and the portfolio manager of ASYMMETRY Global Tactical. The topic is Trend Following. 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...
Mar 07, 2012•1 hr 25 min
My guest today is Charles Faulkner, a trader, mentor and author who has been featured in Jack Schwager's "Market Wizards" series. Faulkner is an international expert on modeling the knowledge and performance of exceptional individuals, teams and organizations, and applying the latest research in cognitive neuroscience and linguistics. The topic is trading psychology. In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss: Mental mapping, risk, expertise, the metaphor of trading to motorcycling, and...
Feb 29, 2012•58 min
