Author: Michael Covel

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My guest today is Tiffani Bova, the author of “Growth IQ: Get Smarter About the Choices that Will Make or Break Your Business.” She has a unique background, with 20 years of experience spread between start-ups and fortune 500 companies. Tiffani has put together a first hand look at what it takes to start and run a successful business as an entrepreneur. Tiffani researched about 30 companies from all backgrounds including Kylie Cosmetics, Honest Co., and Under Armor–using them as examples to show how to build and sustain successful businesses. She also shows companies hitting forks in the road and how they overcame. Every case study may not be useful to everyone but there are lessons to be learned from all.

The topic is her book Growth IQ: Get Smarter About the Choices that Will Make or Break Your Business

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

• Flexing your confidence muscle
• The power of now
• Selling to your demographic
• Buddhism
• Growing a business

Mentions & Resources:

• Tiffani Bova
• Growth IQ: Get Smarter About the Choices that Will Make or Break Your Business
• Seth Godin
• @Tiffani_Bova

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Please enjoy my monologue The Whipsaw Guy with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio. This episode may also include great outside guests from my archive.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio:

• The Trading Tribe
• Trend following philosophy
• Puzzles
• Govopoly
• Motivation

“Everyone gets what they want from the markets.” – Ed Seykota

Mentions & Resources:

• Ed Seykota
• The Trading Tribe
• Govopoly

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My guest today is Jerry Parker, the founder of Chesapeake Capital Corporation, a global investment manager headquartered in Richmond, Virginia, in 1988. He was an original TurtleTrader and was also the most successful TurtleTrader. Jerry brings to the table a straightforward way of breaking down how trend following works.

The topic is Trend Following.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

• Baseball analytics
• Lumpy returns
• Crisis alpha
• Having a process and sticking to it
• Value Investing
• Bobby Axelrod

Mentions & Resources:

• Jerry Parker
• John W. Henry

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Please enjoy my monologue The Data Always Beats the Doctor with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio. This episode may also include great outside guests from my archive.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio:

• Big pharma
• Statins
• Trusting the system
• Personal responsibility

Mentions & Resources:

• Jerry Parker

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Hi Michael,

Love your podcasts, wide range of topics and guests. Very interesting and engaging.

Your last one about Woodward spins Belushi is a great example of you exposing your own bias and linking a single incident to a different set of independent incidents and then to a whole group of individual “Journalists” and saying you can’t believe ANY journalist. If Woodward can be wrong then all of them must be wrong. That’s some big leaps in association and generalized to the point of blindness. This a great example of a human habit that gets all of us in trouble and part of why we all struggle with crazy stuff. Hopefully we keep people around us to keep us from falling off the deep end and ending up like Alex Jones 😉

You’re a smart, successful guy but very human and very passionate about your ideas and world view. That podcast was a great reminder to me that we all have blind spots and overstate things we “believe” to be facts.

[Name]

Why does it disturb you so much that journalists should either not be believed and or questioned at every step? I can turn on “news” at any time of the day and every bit of it is opinion designed to shove an agenda — the same kind of stuff Woodward did to Belushi. Why does it bother you that I say that? Why is media above criticism?

You make the point of episode.

How can you move forward immediately to Trend Following profits? My books and my Flagship Course and Systems are trusted options by clients in 70+ countries.

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Hi Michael,

Appreciate all that you have done thus far. I loved your Turtle Trading book, along with the Little Book of Trading, and I have been listening to random podcast episodes, realizing that I should listen to them all since each one is packed with some much valuable information. Thus, I am working through them sequentially.

One thing that has changed for me is that I need to approach trading from a statistical point of view and not something like “I’m living or dying by this next trade.” I have been so stuck in the boat that I’m going to get rich off this next trade and that I have to win, and I can’t have any losses. So many guests have talked about how important money management is, and how it’s okay to not know what will happen next in the market. It’s true, I don’t need to know what happens next to make money.

Again, thank you. I have noted the amazing deal on your trend trading system and I’ll spend a bit of time going through the resources you will provide as the journey of trend trading is one I want to pursue.

Best,
Evan

You are welcome!

How can you move forward immediately to Trend Following profits? My books and my Flagship Course and Systems are trusted options by clients in 70+ countries.

Also jump in:

• Trend Following Podcast Guests
• Frequently Asked Questions
• Performance
• Research
• Markets to Trade
• Crisis Times
• Trading Technology
• About Us

Trend Following is for beginners, students and pros in all countries. This is not day trading 5-minute bars, prediction or analyzing fundamentals–it’s Trend Following.

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Michael,

I just received my copy of your 5th Edition of Trend Following, purchased from Amazon. I was immediately shocked and excited by the size of it! This thing is a textbook. Have you ever thought about putting together a study guide? Something to help your readers hold themselves accountable and test themselves to make sure they’re absorbing the information in each chapter. I’m going to need to come up with a plan of attack for sure. I’ve nearly finished devouring The Little Book of Trading in less than a week, where as my typical reading habit is a few pages here and there. Clearly Trend Following is going to require discipline and concentration.

Thank you for your work on this subject. I’m very excited to learn how to create a trend following system with good money management. It is clear that I’ll need a reliable way to access risk across markets, so that I can properly weight positions. Anyway, thanks again and enjoy those miniskirts on the motorcycles wherever in the world you are these dwindling summer days!

All the best,
[Name]

Study guide? Just the book. It’s a read start to finish.

How can you move forward immediately to Trend Following profits? My books and my Flagship Course and Systems are trusted options by clients in 70+ countries.

Also jump in:

• Trend Following Podcast Guests
• Frequently Asked Questions
• Performance
• Research
• Markets to Trade
• Crisis Times
• Trading Technology
• About Us

Trend Following is for beginners, students and pros in all countries. This is not day trading 5-minute bars, prediction or analyzing fundamentals–it’s Trend Following.