Please enjoy my monologue It Takes Two 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 ...
Sep 27, 2012•18 min
Please enjoy my monologue Your First Loss Is Your Best Loss 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 ...
Sep 26, 2012•37 min
Please enjoy my monologue Persistence, Patton and Reincarnation 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 g...
Sep 20, 2012•30 min
Please enjoy my monologue Don't Let Them F*** You Around 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...
Sep 18, 2012•27 min
Please enjoy my monologue Dirt Off Your Shoulder 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...
Sep 13, 2012•27 min
My guest today is Dr. Alexander Elder, a trader, educator and author. Dr. Elder's unique and inspiring story starts with his dissatisfaction with the system in his home country of Estonia. At 23, while working as a ship's doctor, he jumped a Soviet Union ship in Africa and received political asylum in the United States; he also ended up on the KGB's wanted list. Dr. Elder worked as a psychiatrist in New York City and taught at Columbia University. The topic is his book Trading for a Living: Psyc...
Sep 12, 2012•54 min
My guest today is Steve Brechtel. Over the past 20 years Brechtel has worked as a trader for three of the top 100 hedge funds in the world: Trout Trading (now Tewksbury Capital) in Chicago and Bermuda, Crabel Capital in Milwaukee, and now Two Sigma in NYC (a $10 billion fund) -- all short-term systematic funds. The topic is trading. In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss: Brechtel's history, from his beginnings roughing it as a Pizza Hut manager while working an insurance job, to fi...
Sep 07, 2012•1 hr 3 min
Please enjoy my monologue The Human Marionette 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 p...
Sep 07, 2012•27 min
My guest today is Steve Burns. Burns has been investing and trading in the stock market successfully for many years. He is the author of seventeen books about the stock market. He is one of this site's top reviewers for books about trading and investing having read and reviewed several hundred books. The topic is his book New Trader, Rich Trader: How to Make Money in the Stock Market. In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss: Tech bubble of the late 1990s Chapter titles in Burns' book...
Sep 05, 2012•1 hr
Please enjoy my monologue Catching The Frisbee 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 p...
Sep 04, 2012•26 min
My guest today is Courtney Smith, a trader, author, money manager, educator, and speaker. Smith has been trading for forty-plus years. He's written seven books and is a frequent commentator on television. The topic is trading. In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss: Smith's start, and his experiences with trend trading and Richard Donchian's systems (and the experience of testing these systems on computers in the mid-70s) Today's climate for trading, and how it compares to what time...
Aug 31, 2012•1 hr 2 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 his book Higher Level Trading: The Five Stages to Trader and Investor Mastery. In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss: Faulkner's idea of...
Aug 29, 2012•1 hr 3 min
My guest today is James Altucher. From hedge fund manager, to author, to blogger to angel investor, Altucher has a wide and varied career bringing a very honest perspective to life, the cerebral side of the equation, health, and happiness. You can have all the systems in the world, but if you don't have the six inches between your ears figured out, it's all for nothing. The topics are yoga and trading. In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss: Transparency The connection between yoga ...
Aug 25, 2012•50 min
My guest today is David Cheval. Cheval was an inside witness to Richard Dennis and Bill Eckhardt's famed Turtle experiment. Through the involvement of his former wife, famed original TurtleTrader Liz Cheval, David Cheval's history and background for the Turtle story comes from a unique vantage point. The topic is Turtle Trading. In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss: Events surrounding the Turtle experiment, including his own interesting part in alerting his former wife to the oppo...
Aug 22, 2012•41 min
My guest today is Michael Gibbons, a market timer (otherwise known as a trend following trader) who runs a firm called Gibbons Trading. Gibbons started as an economics major and quickly realized that much of what he was taught in academia didn't add up. He has been trading since 1971, and was one of the first to discover what is now known as stock index arbitrage. He was one of the first to use computerized trading and currently provides his proprietary research primarily to large traders and he...
Aug 21, 2012•58 min
Please enjoy my monologue Consistency In Your Thought Process 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 giv...
Aug 18, 2012•29 min
My guest today is Ralph Vince. Vince is by profession a computer programmer writing analytical programs for funds, large traders and professional gamblers. He is the author of five books on investing in his field of expertise, portfolio management and portfolio/trade optimization. The topic is trading. In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss: Optimal bet sizes Whether Ed Thorp's work and the Kelly criteria had any effect on Vince's work The importance of knowing the optimal spot depe...
Aug 16, 2012•58 min
My guest today is Howard Getson, an entrepreneur and president & CEO of Capitalogix. Getson is an associate of Stendahl. Getson has a degree in psychology and philosophy from Duke University, an MBA and law degree from Northwestern, and has practiced corporate law. Getson is running a hedge fund today as well as a quant research shop, and he's in the business of systematically finding edges through all sorts of different approaches - not only trend following. Getson started his first busines...
Aug 14, 2012•1 hr 6 min
Please enjoy my monologue Leverage and The Martial Art 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...
Aug 13, 2012•24 min
My guest today is Van Tharp. Tharp runs the Van Tharp Institute and is the author of four acclaimed books. He was also featured in Jack Schwager's Market Wizard's: Interviews with Great Traders. Van Tharp received his Ph.D. in psychology, is a certified Master Practitioner of Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP), a Certified Master Time Line Therapist, a certified Modeler of NLP, and an Assistant Trainer of NLP. He has used his expertise in NLP to create the successful models of trading and invest...
Aug 09, 2012•58 min
Please enjoy my monologue The Happy Passenger 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 pi...
Aug 08, 2012•30 min
Please enjoy my monologue Ignoring The Global Chatroom 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...
Aug 04, 2012•19 min
Please enjoy my monologue Price Is The Only Issue That Matters 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 gi...
Aug 01, 2012•24 min
My guest today is Eric Prentis, a stock market investing and trading expert. He has experience as a registered investment adviser, as a teacher and researcher on the faculty of the University of Southern California’s graduate school of business, and as a stock market fund manager. He is the author of "The Astute Investor, 2nd ed.," and "The Astute Speculator," which are interesting to read, easy to understand and present the best advice from the masters. The topic is his Zero Hedge article Every...
Jul 27, 2012•52 min
My guest today is Brad Rathe, a trader, and programmer. Rathe allocates funds to other traders, as well as operates his own global macro fund. Rathe has worked at such firms as EMC (original Turtle), Northbourne, and Rotella. Rathe moved to Chicago the day he graduated college and immersed himself in the pits of the Chicago Board of Trade, initially working in the "meats" pit (pork bellies, live cattle, live hogs, and feeder cattle). The topic is Trend Following. In this episode of Trend Followi...
Jul 23, 2012•57 min
My guest today is Ryan Holiday, the director of marketing for American Apparel, media strategist for Tucker Max, Dov Charney, and others, and an author. The topic is his book Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator. In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss: The media food chain What goes into media manipulation The lie of "if you're doing something great, it will be heard" Gatekeepers in the media How blogs are our digital bloodsport Why being inaccurate and inflammato...
Jul 19, 2012•1 hr
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 ...
Jul 18, 2012•17 min
My guest today is Patrick De Villiers, a co-founder of the systematic trend following fund, Neural Capital. Originally from South Africa and now based in Cyprus. He is a highly accomplished financial market specialist with extensive treasury experience and business implementation, has vast knowledge about systematic investment portfolios and risk management., and has extensive experience in emerging and developed financial markets with very strong managerial and leadership skills. The topic is T...
Jul 16, 2012•59 min
My guest today is Gil Morales. Morales got started in the early 90s, became a broker with Merrill Lynch in Beverly Hills, and moved on to work as a portfolio manager and ultimately chief market strategist at William O'Neil's firm (of IBD and CANSLIM fame). Morales eventually moved onto his own investment advisory firm with Chris Kacher. The topic is his book Trade Like an O'Neil Disciple: How We Made 18,000% in the Stock Market. In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss: Morales' trend...
Jul 14, 2012•47 min
My guest today is Dave Stendahl of Capitalogix, the Managing Partner at Signal Trading Group and the co-author of a number of books. His focus is on trading systems and portfolio construction, specifically within the global futures markets. He tracks and trades 40 individual markets across eight different sectors. The topic is trading. In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss: Stendahl's approach is that a system should have as few moving parts as possible; it should be simple enough ...
Jul 12, 2012•56 min
