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Hi Mr. Covel,

Hope you are having a nice weekend. Please excuse my spelling and grammar I have dyslexia. Your system you are very intelligent and interesting. I have heard an infinite number of scammers talk about magic systems. However, when I program them to backtest them on a large scale they fall short. But it sounds like you have to do an amazing amount of testing and research in your system in this area. So I do not doubt its validity, because you sound like me, you do not believe what people tell you. You test it for yourself. I am somewhat disappointed though because I signed up for your video presentation. Because the advertisement said you would reveal your system. But after an hour and a half of watching the video and reading content, not such information was revealed. I will however read the AQR paper you described in the video. Thank you for the hint. My question will you reveal to me your money, risk, and trade management entry and exit rules as promised in the video. Thank you for taking the time to read this and I look forward to your reply.

I help clients with trend following systems. Yes. But of course everyone should verify before trading. That’s life.

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My guest today is Michael Canic, PhD, the president of Making Strategy Happen, which specializes in helping committed leaders of midsize companies turn ambition into strategy, and strategy into reality. Canic originated his strategy model while working as a corporate leader for FedEx, during which time his district became the most recognized in the Americas for service quality.

The topic is his book Ruthless Consistency: How Committed Leaders Execute Strategy, Implement Change, and Build Organizations That Win.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

• Football
• Change and Fear
• “Cut Your Losses and Let Your Profits Run”
• Importance of Commitment
• Leadership
• Asian Experience
• Taking Action
• Zen Temples of Kyoto
• Control your Ego

Mentions & Resources:

• Michael Canic
• Ruthless Consistency: How Committed Leaders Execute Strategy, Implement Change, and Build Organizations That Win
• Bruce Arians
• Pete Carroll
• Bill Parcells
• Daniel Kahneman
• makingstrategyhappen.com
• @MichaelCanic

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Hey, I have a question about the market and I figure why not ask the professionals if you dont mind. (heard you on chat with traders). If the fed is buying treasury coupons for 80 billion a month with 5 to 30 year maturity at 0.1% interest rates, what is the affect of this long term? If I’m the house I’m happy to kick the bucket and just borrow more money to solve short term problems. But at what point does it become too much and the tower collapses? The corona ‘recession’ was a blip on the radar on monthly charts across the board, not even close to 2008 or 2000, yet we printed 7x the amount of money, in trillions. So if we don’t have another ’crash’ happening and we are business as usual, what are the damage of printing money? Inflation? Deflation? Hyperinflation? If the fed is raising interest rates (eventually) then for sure we will start a recession, noway we can pay back that amount of money. I am just waiting for the parabolic FOMO rally to start and bring every shoeshine boy and his 2 million tiktok followers into the market and pump every stock available until it exhausts and collapses beyond imagination. Are commission-free trading intentionally advertised to teens/20s something for the market makers to sell off their bags? Liquidity and volume has to be rule #1 in the market right? How far into the future can you plan? What are you guys thinking?

Thanks!

Are you familiar with trend following? My world? Most if not all of your questions can’t be answered in advance.

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Michael. Your interviewing Ed Seykota in your book, on-page, to be able to sit in a room and not have this anxiety, worrying constantly, and if no one has that, to work on that. I have. Tried. For a long time to take my self, a poor govt seeking n handout baby who never worked a hard job. And quit Wendy’s when they said I have to work Halloween. I quit that. And the ball team when we had a late practice.

I found Alan watts through your consistent and true statements of him. And he has helped me slow the fuck Down and realize take account and make my move. Not just move at once and with ALL MY gusto, mind you, wasn’t much movement happening!

Look I’ve failed a lot. I’m brave. And strong and worth it. So I keep hauling the mail as they say in Kentucky. And it works. I’ve said it to others and always return to the other comment about self extension and once you figure out the right ways it works. Entirely better. It’s changed my entire perspective on trading. And once again. More Covel wisdom lets me use this in my everyday life. So thank you. This by far the biggest gift.

I shall never surrender my entrepreneur.

Keep going!

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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
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• Research
• Markets to Trade
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• 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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Hi Michael,

I have recently read your TurtleTrader book, The Little Book of Trading and am now on to Trend Following which I am thoroughly enjoying. I have been doing some trend trading to moderate success but gradually becoming more profitable as I iron out my mistakes, however, I struggle a little with scanning the markets for the correct set ups as I seem to miss a lot of them. The system I have been using is obviously different you what you use however so I will continue to read all of your content and save up for the Flagship product to continue further my education and achieve the results I am wanting. I am thoroughly excited as I read your books and I wish I had come across your books years ago.

Many thanks.

Check out all of the links on my footer here. Great intro education.

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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.

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.

Subscribe to Trend Following Radio on iTunes

My guest today is Brad Feld. He has been an early-stage investor and entrepreneur for over twenty years. Prior to cofounding Foundry Group—a Boulder, Colorado-based early-stage venture capital fund that invests in information technology companies all over the United States—he cofounded Mobius Venture Capital. Prior to that, he founded Intensity Ventures, a company that helped launch and operate software companies.

The topics are his books The Startup Community Way: Evolving an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem and Startup Communities: Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Your City.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

• Software
• How to be an Entrepreneur
• The United States 2020
• Computer Languages
• Commercial Internet
• Cryptocurrency
• COVID Crisis

Mentions & Resources:

• Brad Feld
• The Startup Community Way: Evolving an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem
• Startup Communities: Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Your City
• Jerry Colonna
• Falklands War
• Computer Science
• World Wide Web
• Netscape
• @bfeld

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Please enjoy my monologue Trends, Value and Selling with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio. This episode may also include great outside guests from my archive.

Harold de Boer
Howard Marks
Jeffrey Gitomer

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