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Ep. 230: Mark Minervini Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Mark Minervini
Mark Minervini

My guest today is Mark Minervini, a technical analyst, acclaimed author, instructor, and independent trader. He has over 30 years of experience in finance, and was featured in Jack Schwager’s Stock Market Wizards; Conversations with America’s Top Stock Traders.

The topic is his book Trade Like a Stock Market Wizard: How to Achieve Super Performance in Stocks in Any Mar

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

  • Importance of influences outside of the finance world
  • Minervini’s atypical background in music and how he got to where he is today
  • Capturing ‘super performance’ and the trend
  • The importance of cutting your losers short
  • How Minervini spends his day
  • Richard Love and ‘super performance’ stocks
  • Why Minervini is not a fan of diversification beyond the minimum amount that you can get away with
  • Richard Donchian, Jesse Livermore and their influence on Minervini
  • Timeless strategies
  • Paul Tudor Jones and ‘losers average losers’
  • The importance of not just trading what you know
  • ‘New high ground’ and not being afraid of buying higher highs
  • Risk management and bet sizing
  • The biggest areas where new traders often start off on the wrong foot
  • Howard Lederer and poker players as an analogy to traders
  • Why you shouldn’t even turn on the television as a stock trader

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