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Please enjoy my monologue Firehose to the Mouth with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio.

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Thank you for sending me the presentations you wrote in your book!

Kind regards from an Italian reader of the German version of your fantastic book,
Oswald K.

You are welcome!

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Hi Michael,

I have encountered your content during my deep, incredible and wonderful trading study over the last 6 months. I am a new learner Trader (and I’m going to learn forever). My biggest challenge has been to know where to place my stop loss. My strategy has been an entry point when the 5-day moving average crosses the 20-day, my study has led me to believe that it works in at least 70% of cases and on any one day there will be 3-4 opportunities for the stocks I’ve been looking at. It’s a good idea to set the 5DSMA to red on the chart and the 20DSMA to green so it’s like a traffic light system and then it’s a case of red crosses green GO! (LONG) I could chat about this all day! Also, another challenge that I have is trading in isolation, this is a new career for me and I have no contacts. But I’m going to smash this business! Believe me! I will keep getting better at this every day for the rest of my career until I am profitable. It’s impossible to fail really when you think about it. There are so many wise traders of the past that make their knowledge available for me, they did all the work and I just read their stuff and learn from it! I actually can’t believe that more people are not doing this.

Have a great day and I hope you learn something, every day.

Jason L.

P.S. What are you looking at this week?

Trend followers don’t look. They react.

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Hey Michael,

First off, I’m a big fan. You introduced me to the world of the turtles and trend following with your books and I can’t thank you enough for that. I’ve also been listening to your podcast on and off for a few years and appreciate the work you’re doing there.

I always hear your plug at the end of each episode saying to send you an email, which I’m assuming triggers some automated response but figured I’d give it a shot. A couple weeks ago you had a wild monologue (pretty sure it was the one after you did a bunch of box jumps) where I pretty much felt like you were directly calling me a dumbass so I said fuck it, I wanna be a better trader and maybe Mike can help.

I’ve been trading (part time) for about 6 years now and learned a lot about the markets and myself but I still do dumb shit all the time. I need a system, I need a process to rely on. After years of bleeding money, I need to try something better. Hopefully you can help me get back on track.

Cheers,
Daniel S.

Start here.

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Hi Michael,

[Biggest challenge on trading] Making consistent profits.

Thanks,
Peter H.

But the best traders in the world don’t make consistent profits. We can’t force the market to do that, ie except a fixed rate money market account. Does that reframe it for you?

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My guest today is Jeff Karp, a Canadian biomedical engineer working as a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the principal faculty at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute and Affiliate Faculty at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology through the Harvard–MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology. In 2008, he was listed as one of the top innovators. In 2011, he received Young Investigator award from the Society for Biomaterials, and the Champion in Health Care Innovation.

The topic is his book LIT: Life Ignition Tools: Use Nature’s Playbook to Energize Your Brain, Spark Ideas, and Ignite Action.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

• Personal growth and overcoming obstacles
• Brain’s ability to adapt and learn, particularly in individuals with learning differences
• Connection between physical activity, brain function, and emotional well-being
• Activation energy in achieving goals
• Incremental progress
• Importance of patterns and habits
• Neurodiversity and curiosity
• Dealing with failure and maximizing momentum

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• Jeff Karp
• Jeff Karp’s Website
• LIT: Life Ignition Tools: Use Nature’s Playbook to Energize Your Brain, Spark Ideas, and Ignite Action

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Hi Michael,

Thanks for interviewing Eric, great discussion. I’m in the same age category so there’s a built-in affinity.

Thought I’d pass along some info regarding greed, envy, and financial markets. Eric Falkenstein wrote “Finding Alpha” some time ago (and now makes it freely available on his website as a pdf) wherein he proposes a couple of interesting things. First, risk and reward are not “linked” in the way most people think, this leads to the “low-vol anomaly.” Secondly, he puts forward the argument that people are driven by envy rather than greed, and goes on to explain several financial puzzles using this notion (including the home country bias). He stopped blogging several years ago and I have no idea what he’s up to now. I’ve seen a few of his old interviews and he’s a bit of an odd duck, but clearly very intelligent and smart. Think it would be a great interview for your podcast if you can find him.

His two books are worth a read and some of his old blog posts are also fun. Not sure why, but after forgetting about him for years I looked up his stuff again just a few days ago. Hope you enjoy it.

Thanks again,
Victor

Thanks!

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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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• 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.