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Michael, I was listening to a recent podcast of yours and I realized why I like your stuff so much. You are so open minded about everything. This excerpt from a book from the late Dr. Wayne Dyer makes me think of you: “Having a mind that is open to everything and attached to nothing sounds easy until you think about how much conditioning has taken place in your life and how many of your current thoughts were influenced by geography and religious beliefs of your ancestors. The color of your skin, the shape of your eyes. The political orientation of your parents. Your size, your gender, the schools that were selected for you and the vocation of your great grandparents. To list some possibilities. You showed up here as a tiny infant capable of of an infinite number of potentialities. Many of your choices remain unexplored, because of a hopefully well intended conditioning program designed to make you fit the culture of your caretakers. You probably had no opportunity to disagree with the cultural societal arrangements made for your life. There may have been some adults who encouraged you to have an open mind, but if you are honest with yourself, you know that your philosophy of life, your religious beliefs, your manner of dress and your language are a function of what your tribe and it’s heritage determined what was right for you. If you made any fuss about going against this pre-ordained conditioning, you probably heard even more stronger voices insisting that you get back in line and do things the way we’ve always done them. Fitting in superseded having a mind that was open to new ideas.”

In a recent podcast you mentioned that you might visit Dunn Capital in the future. If you decide to do so, it would be my honor to take you to dinner.

Happy Trails and thanks for your great podcasts!!!

[Name]

Thanks!

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

In this episode of Trend Following Radio:

• Predictive technical analysis
• Reactive technical analysis
• Cognitive dissonance

“Predictive technical analysis… otherwise known as ‘blowing bullshit in the wind’” – Michael Covel

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My guest today is Tarra Mitchell, an award winning author. Tarra is incorporating her distinctive background in business and yoga to contribute to the great conversation around leadership and consciousness. A twenty-year practitioner of yoga, Tarra is a registered yoga teacher at the five-hundred-hour level and has studied extensively with master teachers and private mentors to support her research. Tarra’s fascination with human behavior and culture led her to concentrate her academic studies on international business and explore much of the world for business and pleasure. Global awareness continues to influence her writing.

The topic is The Yoga of Leadership: A Practical Guide to Health, Happiness, And Inspiring Total Team Engagement.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

• Yoga in business
• Intellectual indigestion
• Clear intention
• Having purpose
• Stress eliminators
• Self awareness
• Self reflection

“Do it just because, not for the results or the outcome.” – Tarra Mitchell

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• Tarra Mitchell
• “The Yoga of Leadership: A Practical Guide to Health, Happiness, And Inspiring Total Team Engagement”
• Michael Covel Bio
• @tarrammitchell

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

In this episode of Trend Following Radio:

• Media distractions
• Psychology in trading
• Icarus moment
• Discipline and practice
• Solo and group practice
• Flow state
• Social Motivation
• The late birthday rule
• 10,000 hours of practice
• Nature vs. nurture
• Brain plasticity

Mentions & Resources:

• The Icarus Moment – Ben Hunt
• Anders Ericsson
• Michael Covel trend following pdf
• “Peak: Secrets from the new science of expertise”

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My guest today is Robert Kurson, the author of four New York Times bestsellers, including his 2004 debut, Shadow Divers, the true story of two Americans who discovered a World War II German U-boat sunk 60 miles off the coast of New Jersey. Kurson began his career as an attorney, graduating from Harvard Law School and practicing real estate law. Kurson’s professional writing career began at the Chicago Sun-Times, where he started as a data entry clerk. In 2000, Esquire published “My Favorite Teacher,” his first magazine story, which became a finalist for a National Magazine Award. He moved from the Sun-Times to Chicago Magazine, then to Esquire, where he won a National Magazine Award and was a contributing editor for years. His other New York Times bestsellers include Crashing Through (2007), Pirate Hunters (2015), and his latest, Rocket Men (2018), which tells the astonishing story of Apollo 8, mankind’s first journey to the Moon.

The topic is his book Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man’s First Journey to the Moon.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

• Sputnik
• The race to space
• WWII
• Nuclear arms race
• The Apollo space missions
• The Saturn V

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Other Michael Covel Podcasts and Thoughts that you may Enjoy

• Inspiration from the dark side of the moon
• Aiming for the moon: Trend Following Success Stories
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Hi Michael!

This is my first letter to you! First of all, I’m a big fan of your pod. I deem it to be a big part of my work to listen to good pods to be a better investor and person. And yours is probably top 3 of all. And that’s from a list of over 100 pods.

So to my question regarding pod no. 638 “Walk the line”. You say that trend-following is to “start out the year” testing several objects.

I don’t see why it would matter what calendar month you do trend-following. One might want to start out in July. Maybe you just meant it figuratively and I am misunderstanding you here.

[Name] from Sweden

BTW, glad that you show your politics from time to time.

Figurative!

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Hi Michael,

I understand what you wrote in your short lesson emails, and from hands-on experience know that trading with a well-designed system can work.

From your emails, what stood out most, and is a clear reminder for me, is that I really need to have a standard operating procedure (SOP) for *everything* as far as any of my investing goes. In my opinion, a well-designed, and tested system has *proper* procedures for everything: instrument selection, entry, exit, position sizing, rare exogenous event procedures, hedging, and risk management that ties it all together and mathematically *guarantees* a steadily rising equity curve.

These things are *not* easy to master, and require considerable time and research to get right. I know from hands-on experience.

My wife is currently finishing a degree in Accounting here in the US. The students appear to be taught the popular dogma unfortunately…something I don’t agree with.

On a separate note. Thank you for your podcast and books. I listened so far to perhaps like 150-200 episodes. It’s been like a graduate course on investing and *life*, taught by an all-star team of professors.

All the best,
[Name]

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.