My guest today is Dan Andrews, the founder of The Lifestyle Business podcast. He is the host of the Tropical MBA. The topic is entrepreneurship, travel and lifestyle. In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss: Location independence Optimizing for time and mobility Andrews' beginnings as a teenager to where he is today Artists and entrepreneurs Andrews' beginnings How being in an entirely different atmosphere can bring out your creativity How Paris in the 1920's relates to the creative ...
Aug 26, 2013•1 hr 10 min
My guest today is Eric Wong. Wong established TCG on behalf of his family in 2003 as an asset management and financial advisory firm focused on investments with superior risk adjusted returns that are uncorrelated to major asset classes and advising family office and corporate clients. TCG’s Celera division was formed in 2012 to consolidate and spin out the markets, technology, and business infrastructure of TCG. The topic is entrepreneur. In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss: How...
Aug 24, 2013•46 min
My guest today is Harry Dent, a best-selling author and one of the most outspoken financial editors in America. Using proprietary research, Harry developed a unique method for studying economies around the world, and uses his analysis to provide insights on what to expect in the future. The topic is his book Demographic Trends in Real Estate. In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss: How demographics and consumer spending help to determine what might happen tomorrow "The demographic c...
Aug 22, 2013•43 min
Please enjoy my monologue Knowing What We Don't Know 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 g...
Aug 19, 2013•23 min
My guest today is Jerry Parker, a trend following trader with over 25 years of experience. His firm is Chesapeake Capital and he was featured in Covel's book "The Complete TurtleTrader." The topic is Trend Following. In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss: Fitness The Hindenburg "omen" Objective entry/exit criteria Why you'd stay in a long position that you wouldn't want to enter into today The "oversleeping" hypothetical The idea that reducing volatility increases risk Definitions ...
Aug 16, 2013•30 min
My guest today is Rolf Dobelli, a Swiss author and entrepreneur. Dobelli is a member of Edge Foundation, Inc., PEN International and the Royal Society of Arts. He is the founder of the World Minds foundation. The topic is his book The Art of Thinking Clearly. In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss: Availability bias Statistics The sunk cost fallacy The difficulty of logical thinking Authority bias and outcome bias Process vs. outcome The irrelevancy and "white noise" of news Informa...
Aug 16, 2013•39 min
My guest today is Mebane Faber, a co-founder and the Chief Investment Officer of Cambria Investment Management. Faber is the manager of Cambria’s ETFs and separate accounts. Mr. Faber is the host of The Meb Faber Show podcast and has authored numerous white papers and leather-bound books. He is a frequent speaker and writer on investment strategies and has been featured in Barron’s, The New York Times, and The New Yorker. The topic is his book Shareholder Yield: A Better Approach to Dividend Inv...
Aug 12, 2013•55 min
Please enjoy my monologue Bubble Pop 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 ad...
Aug 11, 2013•53 min
My guest today is Jon Boorman, CMT, a market technician, analyst, and trader with 25 years of experience in global equity, FOREX, and futures markets. Boorman employs trend following and momentum strategies to generate actionable trade ideas. Boorman has been with many big firms in the past 25 years, but now works on his own outside of the infrastructure of the big investment banks and brokerage firms. The topic is Trend Following. In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss: What it was...
Aug 08, 2013•1 hr
Please enjoy my monologue Doing More With Less 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...
Aug 05, 2013•24 min
My guest today is Alpesh Patel, a hedge fund manager, Financial Times columnist and Bloomberg TV presenter. The topic is his book How to Win at Spread Betting: An Analysis of Why Some People Win at Spread Betting and Some Lose. In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss: Comparisons betweens stocks and futures What the winners have in common Trade frequency, and why active traders tended to do better in Patel's study Buy & holders vs. spread betters Academic vs. practical insights W...
Jul 30, 2013•45 min
Please enjoy my monologue Trading Places & Nature v. Nurture 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 ...
Jul 29, 2013•42 min
My guest today is Tom Asacker, an artist, writer, inventor, and philosopher. He writes, teaches, and speaks about radically new practices and ideas for success in times of uncertainty and change. The topic is his book The Business of Belief: How the World's Best Marketers, Designers, Salespeople, Coaches, Fundraisers, Educators, Entrepreneurs, and Other Leaders Get Us To Believe. In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss: Choice and distraction/distrust Belief and its connection to how...
Jul 25, 2013•55 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 the top reviewers for books about trading and investing, having read and reviewed several hundred books. The topic is trading. In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss: Risk management Position sizing The magic of compounding Why individual trades have very little meaning Turning down the volume on...
Jul 19, 2013•52 min
Please enjoy my monologue Gimp Investing 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 o...
Jul 19, 2013•31 min
Please enjoy my monologue Right & Wrong Answers 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 gr...
Jul 15, 2013•40 min
Please enjoy my monologue Money, Money, Money 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...
Jul 07, 2013•19 min
Please enjoy my monologue The Complete TurtleTrader Audiobook Afterword 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 l...
Jul 02, 2013•48 min
My guest today is Brendan Moynihan, an editor-at-large for Bloomberg News, where he manages the popular column Chart of the Day and writes about the economy and Wall Street. He has been with the company since 2007 after spending more than twenty years on Wall Street as a trader and risk manager. The topic is his book What I Learned Losing a Million Dollars. In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss: How Moynihan's background, the background of his subject, Jim Paul, and how the two cam...
Jul 01, 2013•45 min
Please enjoy my monologue The Complete TurtleTrader Audiobook Excerpt 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 lik...
Jun 28, 2013•41 min
Please enjoy my monologue Emotional Rescue 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...
Jun 25, 2013•29 min
Please enjoy my monologue Predictions, Dreams, Fantasies 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...
Jun 22, 2013•36 min
My guest today is Dan Collins, a senior producer for CBS News.com. Previously, he was a New York correspondent for U.S. News & World Report and a reporter for the New York Daily News. The topic is the article Quant Hedge Funds Hit By US Bonds Sell-Off. In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss: Why trend followers are speculators rather than investors Why the Financial Times article showed a misunderstanding of trend following in general Headlines and what drives them Equity-centri...
Jun 15, 2013•46 min
Please enjoy my monologue Skepticism & Agnosticism 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...
Jun 14, 2013•17 min
Please enjoy my monologue The Man Behind The Curtain 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 g...
Jun 12, 2013•16 min
Please enjoy my monologue Don't Be Average: Buy & Hold 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 y...
Jun 07, 2013•21 min
My guest today is James Altucher, an American hedge-fund manager, author, podcaster, and entrepreneur who has founded and cofounded over 20 companies. He has published 20 books and is a contributor to publications including The Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, and The Huffington Post. The topic is his book Choose Yourself! In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss: The new book and why all the rules we thought of as normal ("The banks will always finance my house",...
Jun 04, 2013•51 min
Please enjoy my monologue Education System Chaos 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...
May 28, 2013•23 min
Please enjoy my monologue Variability Is The Norm 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 grea...
May 21, 2013•21 min
Please enjoy my monologue Michael Covel on Trend Following 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...
May 15, 2013•25 min
