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“My World Has Changed Dramatically…Thanks”

Posted on by Michael Covel

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Hi Michael, I just wanted to say thank you for the work you are doing with your writing and podcasts.

My world has changed dramatically since listening to you and Barry Ritholtz on Master’s in Business a couple of weeks back. I’ve since read your book The Complete TurtleTrader and am in the middle of reading Trend Following. I’ve also started to listen to your podcasts (along with Master’s in Business that I listen to each week) and have really enjoyed your conversations with Tom Basso, Meb Faber, and listening to your views on the world.

My educational background is in physics and economics and professionally I own an internet advertising and online publishing business. So I’m comfortable with numbers and fairly entrepreneurial.

Since reading your books and listening to your podcasts I’ve been busy programming and developing a trend following trading strategy all with set conditions on: when to open positions, how to manage funds and risk exposure, rules for what to do when a trend breaks out, and a stop loss system that defines when to exit at all times win or lose. All done programmatically and connected into the trading platforms API’s. I now feel confident in the process being put in place to be successful with my trading (regardless of whether this particular strategy back tests well or not) and I’m excited for what 2016 and further into the future have in store. An amazing change in less than 6 weeks.

It has been a fantastic learning process for me and it is a process that is on-going and one that I feel has changed my life forever. Without your efforts I don’t think I would have come across any of this and it is for this this reason that I felt I needed to email you to let you know how your work has impacted me.

So thank you again.
Sincerely
[Name]

Great feedback. Thanks [Name]. Best of luck!

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Ep. 424: The Wizard Jeremy Siegel Filleted with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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The Wizard Jeremy Siegel Filleted with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
The Wizard Jeremy Siegel Filleted with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Please enjoy my monologue The Wizard Jeremy Siegel Filleted 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:

  • Predictions
  • CNBC Analysts
  • What is a bull and bear market?

“Jeremy Siegel is one of the great ones. [His article at the market top was] one of the most stark and prescient calls I have ever seen.” – Jim Cramer

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Video Education from Trend Following Pioneer AHL

Posted on by Michael Covel

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Buy and Hold Works, But Do You Want It?

Posted on by Michael Covel

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Greetings Mr. Covel,

Meb Faber recently stated on your podcast that buy and hold, value investing, and trend following are techniques of investing that “work.” I was surprised that you did not challenge his assertion. Do you agree with him? If Faber is correct, maybe the reason why is because an investor must select the technique of investing that is best suited to him/her as oppose to selecting the “best” method of investing. Comments?

Regards,
[Name]

Buy and hold works. The question: Do you want that “works”?

That is a personal choice.

Isn’t? I don’t want buy and hold. And of course other strategies work. I have had the likes of Toby Crabel and Larry Williams on my show.

Everyone needs to dig deep and pick what they want in life.

Larry Williams
Larry Williams

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Two More Reasons Traditional Cardio Is Useless

Posted on by Michael Covel

We had the Strength Sensei, Charles Poliquin, on Trend Following Radio a while back. Came across this interesting article from him. Worth a read. His two main points as to why traditional cardio is useless:

#1 It is very poor at improving body composition or fitness level.

#2 There is limited return on investment for your time.

Charles Poliquin
Charles Poliquin

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Ep. 423: Angus Deaton Interview With Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Angus Deaton
Angus Deaton

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My guest today is Angus Deaton, the fifth Nobel Prize winner to appear on this podcast. Deaton is a British American economist, and currently a Senior Scholar and the Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of Economics and International Affairs Emeritus at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and the Economics Department at Princeton University. His research focuses primarily on poverty, inequality, health, wellbeing, and economic development. In 2015, he was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare.

The topic is his book The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

  • Unemployment
  • Minimum Wage
  • Poverty
  • Economics
  • Money and happiness
  • The birth lottery

“In periods where there has been a tremendous amount of innovation, there is typically a very large increase in inequality.” – Angus Deaton

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Life of Regret? No Way!

Posted on by Michael Covel

Feedback from a listener:

Greetings Mr. Covel,

During your recent podcast with Steve Kamb, he mentioned that many people say before they die that they regret living lives that others expected of them instead of living lives that they truly desired. This is a very tragic fact.

If you truly want to help the people that listen to your podcast, I suggest that you continue to have guests on your podcast that can give specific and actionable advice on how your audience can live their own lives. In my opinion, this is more important than trend following trading.

I realize that you focus on trend following trading because your success as a trend following trader allows you to live the life that you want. However, if you inform your audience of any other methods that will enable them to live the life that they want, you will be doing a great humanitarian service.

Did you not feel a great sense of sadness to hear that many people die with regret because they lived lives that other people expected them to live as oppose to just living lives that they wanted?

Regards,
[Name]

My podcast is only about trend following? Hmm…

Not so sure that is accurate! One problem here? You want the wisdom how you want it: “specific and actionable” (whatever that means to you). Here are some of the non-trend followers that have been interviewed on my podcast.

Try listening to the Gigerenzer, Gray, Friedman, Sterner, Frederickson, Eisenhardt, Poliquin, Yap, Weinberg, Pearson, Fader, Holiday episodes + the huge number of others that I have not mentioned (that have nothing to do with trend following).

I feel no sadness for people that live a life of regret. None. My podcast in total, all episodes, is “why” I feel that way.

Thanks for the feedback!

Smile!
Smile!

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