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Ep. 305: Mark Manson Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Mark Manson
Mark Manson

My guest today is Mark Manson, an author and personal development consultant. Manson has worked with thousands of people from over 20 countries and his writing offers a different take on the self-help genre. Manson calls it “self help from a first person perspective”. He has sold over 15,000 copies of his book “Models: Attract Women Through Honesty” and almost 400,000 people read his site each month. He’s been published and quoted on CNN, Huffington Post, Business Insider, Yahoo! News, The Sydney Morning Herald and a variety of other publications. He is also the CEO and Founder of Infinity Squared Media LLC.

The topic is personal development.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

  • Why people are such ass—– on the internet
  • Internet communication vs. real world communication
  • Becoming desensitized to the internet
  • How Manson came to his entrepreneurial path and how he was inspired by “The 4-Hour Workweek”
  • Location independence and how travel has changed Manson
  • Consumerism in America
  • Having an excess of choice in your life
  • The type of business Manson has developed and why it’s been successful
  • Why certain approaches to dating aren’t emotionally healthy
  • Our bias against performers
  • Why Manson refers to himself as “self-help for people who don’t like self-help”

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Trend Following Is Entrepreneurial By Definition

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Michael, I was just listening to your podcast with Jon Boorman and it was so fitting. I had just connected with Jerry Parker on LinkedIn and was in the middle of contacting him about getting some feedback for someone just starting out. I’d love to get some feedback from you too. I would love to find a business partner who could put up the capital while I put in the “sweat equity”. I want to do my research and develop my system and eventually start my own fund/CTA/RIA. I would, if course, be splitting my fees with my business partner. First, does that sound like a reasonable way to go about getting started. Second, how do I go about making that proposition appealing to potential partners? My goal is to one day be interviewed on your podcast as someone who has been successful in trend following and to give back to the trend following community as Jerry Parker seems to be doing.

Looking forward to your response.
[Name]

Devour my books and podcast then see if you ask the same question! Also, read Seth Godin’s blog. The last few years of his entries should be an entrepreneurial eyeopener.

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Ep. 304: Crude Oil Folly with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Crude Oil Folly with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
Crude Oil Folly with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Please enjoy my monologue Crude Oil Folly with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio. This episode may also include great outside guests from my archive.

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Trend Following in the Nederlands

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Dear Michael, I’m a Dutch trader. In recent years I’ve developed a Trading System including different trend following strategies. Your books and podcasts have been a major influence during these years especially when it comes to the mindset that corresponds best with these kind of strategies. I enjoy the multidisciplinary approach that also becomes visible by the various voices on your podcasts. Again and again its a pleasant surprise to hear people strengthening the trend following paradigm coming from all kinds of backgrounds. Keep up the good work!

Thanks.

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Ep. 303: Charles Faulkner Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Charles Faulkner
Charles Faulkner

My guest today is Charles Faulkner, an author, trader, and an expert on modeling the knowledge and performance of exceptional individuals. He was originally featured in “The New Market Wizards” by Jack Schwager.

The topic is trading psychology.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

  • The notion of fictional people and why famous figures in finance are “fictional”
  • The importance of narratives, stories, and metaphors
  • The halo effect and deluding ourselves
  • The difference between a story and a strategy
  • The nature of independent thinking; herd behavior
  • Ego, ignorance, and authority
  • The five different types of minds: the experiencing mind, the imaginative mind, the reasoning mind, the reflective mind, and the generative mind
  • System one and system two
  • Why words don’t change people but experience does
  • Experience base and the difference between amateur and professional traders
  • The two kinds of market wizards
  • Language in the context of the five different types of minds
  • The importance of asking “how” does the market work over “why”
  • The importance of luck and time in the case of Warren Buffett
  • Why you shouldn’t get your excitement from trading

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The Straits Times Trend Following Article

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Trend Following Mentoring Works

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I hope you are doing well on your journey. It has been a long time since we touched base. I have been incredibly busy to say the least, but at least I would say busy in a good way. I consider you one of my earliest mentors through your work that I have reviewed extensively. I will say that I have traveled some distance since that first introduction and continue to conduct rigorous research into the marriage between math/science and market mechanics. 2014 has been a very revealing year for me. I have realized a net ROI of approximately 80% in my retail futures account with a max drawdown of approximately 27%. I do not take this startup success for granted. My research has revealed that different market environments flatter different approaches. September-December has been interesting with the infusion of volatility into the markets benefiting my strategic and tactical approaches. I am also expanding on my arsenal of computer programming abilities as that is the language of mathematics in our day and age and essential for my further development as a market speculator. In 12 to 18 months I look forward to starting my own quant fund. I am enjoying this journey so much that I think this will likely become one of my life long endeavors. I wish you all the best and thank you for your immense contribution to my development as a trader. I look forward to speaking with you further when I am at a certain stage of my development as a money manager and perhaps meeting you in person one day as well.

Best,
[Name]

Thanks for the nice note. Best of luck.

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• 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.