Archive
Author: Michael Covel
- June 8, 2014Trend Following 101: “When You Are Caught in A Strong current, It Is Fatal to Resist”
Consider: If, when swimming, you are caught in a strong current, it is fatal to resist. You must swim with it and gradually edge to the side. One who falls from a…
- June 7, 2014Give Me the Data; Don’t Whine
You have a trading strategy that works? Prove it. Give me the empirical data. Or you can go this direction: When people see something they love is under threat, their first reaction…
- June 6, 2014Not Even Close
From CNBC recently: “Such [trend following] funds use computer models to predict trends in the prices of stocks, bonds, currency, commodities and other markets, betting that valuations tend to revert to a…
- June 4, 2014Inequality, Free Markets and Crashes
Nassim Taleb and Mark Spitznagel talk about how government intervention postpones the inevitable. Excerpts: Taleb: Mark, your book is the only place that understands crashes as natural equalizers. In the context of…
- June 4, 2014Ep. 244: Walter Williams Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
My guest today is Walter Williams, an American economist, commentator, and academic. He is the John M. Olin Distinguished Professor of Economics at George Mason University, as well as a syndicated columnist…
- June 2, 2014Ep. 243: John Mauldin Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
My guest today is John Mauldin, a noted financial expert, a New York Times best-selling author, a pioneering online commentator, and the publisher of one of the most widely read investment newsletters…
- June 1, 2014Two Guys That Have No Clue About Anything: Otherwise Known As Standard Wall Street News
Watch. I like to review the Linkedin profile of these money reporter types. Their CVs are often more informative than words spoken.