Author: Michael Covel

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My guest today is Scott Belsky, an American entrepreneur, author and early-stage investor best known for co-creating the online portfolio platform, Behance, Inc. He is author of several books with his latest being “The Messy Middle: Finding Your Way Through the Hardest and Most Crucial Part of Any Bold Venture.”

The topic is his book The Messy Middle: Finding Your Way Through the Hardest and Most Crucial Part of Any Bold Venture.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

• Seth Godin
• Entrepreneurship
• Enduring lows and optimizing highs
• Uncertainty in business
• Starting a business
• Staying engaged
• Self awareness

“To be done is to die.” – Scott Belsky

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• Scott Belsky
• The Messy Middle: Finding Your Way Through the Hardest and Most Crucial Part of Any Bold Venture

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The concept of not owning your investments, in my case my trades, really stuck to me. I believe the analogy of an entrepreneur and having that mindset with me at the time I trade has really help me understand that losing trades are part of the whole. If you want to be a winner you are definitely going to have losers, and now I’m okay with that. I never used fundamentals because my very first influence on trading was Walter Peters, so I’m pretty much set on the side of technical analysis. I was lastly wondering if Elliott Wave trading fitted into what you call trend following?

Run from Elliott Wave! My Faqs are a good start.

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Food for thought:

• Physical activity does not influence obesity risk: time to clarify the public health message
• BBRG: Financial Crisis Killed Hedge-Fund Performance
• The Good Story
• Time Magazine Sold to Salesforce Founder Marc Benioff for $190 Million
• Branded a Villain, Lehman’s Dick Fuld Chases Redemption
• The Financial Crisis Killed Hedge-Fund Performance
• Lazy, Not Biased: Susceptibility to Partisan Fake News Is Better Explained by Lack of Reasoning Than by Motivated Reasoning
• You Can Time The Market, Just Not All The Time
• The Cognitive Burden of Poverty
• Could the Fed Have Saved Lehman?
• Experts are good at betting which scientific experiments can replicate
• What Personality Tests Really Deliver
• The Psychology of Trading Without the Ego
• Can We Survive the Next Financial Crisis?
• This school replaced detention with meditation. The results are stunning.
• Where Will The Next Crisis Come From?
• The Misleading Lessons of History
• Back To $chool
• How to Maximize Serendipity
• It was a gut-wrenching trade, but investors who bought the day before Lehman failed are up 130%
• Each crisis has been followed by a bigger crisis
• When You Lose 99.9%, You’ve Lost More Than Money

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My guest today is Ken Kocienda, a software engineer/designer at Apple for over fifteen years. After being introduced to the internet in 1994 he taught himself computer programming and made his way through a succession of dot-com-era startups, before landing a job at Apple in 2001. He worked on software teams responsible for creating the Safari web browser, iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch.

The topic is his book Creative Selection: Inside Apple’s Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

• Pyramid of demos
• Steve Jobs thought process
• Apple company philosophy
• Completely present in the moment
• Reality distortion field
• Creative selection
• Green Bay Packers and Vince Lombardi

Mentions & Resources:

• Ken Kocienda
• Creative Selection: Inside Apple’s Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs
• @kocienda

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My guest today is Terence C.M. Tse, an educator, speaker, advisor and commentator. He is a co-founder of Nexus FrontierTech and co-author of “Understanding How the Future Unfolds: Using Drive to Harness the Power of Today’s Mega Trends.” His mantra is “You can’t predict the future, but you can be ready with a plan.” Terence’s book focuses on a term he calls “Presentcasting.” He does not promote forecasting but rather teaches people to look at what’s in front of them and see how things are unfolding in current time. He has created the acronym DRIVE – defining 5 interrelated mega trends: demographic and social changes, resource scarcity, inequalities, volatility, complexity and scale and enterprising dynamics. These are the five directions Terence points clients in when they start thinking about improving their lives.

The topic is his book Understanding How the Future Unfolds: Using Drive to Harness the Power of Today’s Mega Trends

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

• Preparing of uncertainty
• Entrepreneurship
• Economics abroad
• New technology
• Rise of the internet
• Disappearance of white collar jobs
• Student loans

Mentions & Resources:

• Terence Tse
• Understanding How the Future Unfolds: Using Drive to Harness the Power of Today’s Mega Trends
• MegaTrends
• @Terencecmtse

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Mike,

Been listening to you for maybe 5 years now, sorry I don’t review more, I’ll try. I’m a financial advisor and a solid believer in trend following. After reading TurtleTrader I traded personally using options, that was June 2014, profited well on short oil. Lucked out starting then. So my investment in you and your work has returned handsomely.

In December 2015 I bought [product] and was determined to learn futures, six months later I started a simulated account, traded it for a year and a half. Went live this year. Things have gone well.

I know you like to get to the point. I guess because your work has helped me achieve my goals, I wanted to say thank you. In a recent podcast I think in an interview with Ed Seykota he said that the trend following mindset can change your life. I totally agree.

Applying the principals with/for my client portfolios is a challenge. In general, clients just think too short term. It’s not their fault, they have the TV telling them how to think, online access to their accounts daily, monthly statements, quarterly reports to a benchmark. We spaz them out because that is what everyone else would do.

Look forward to your future work!

[Name]

Thanks!

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