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Category: Holy Grails
- August 21, 2016Surprise, Surprise, Surprise: Prediction Doesn’t Work
Excerpt: “This has basically never happened before in my whole life. I can remember 1½ percent rates. It certainly surprised all the economists. It surprised the people who created the life insurance…
- August 18, 2016How Does Buffett Make So Much Money? Not How You Think!
Excerpt: Berkshire Hathaway has realized a Sharpe ratio of 0.76, higher than any other stock or mutual fund with a history of more than 30 years, and Berkshire has a significant alpha…
- August 3, 2016“He is so confident in his approach that he offers an extraordinary guarantee: you will never lose money.”
A listener sent this in: You’re gonna love this guy. Ladies and gentlemen, the next Bernie Madoff! How Does This Hedge-Fund Manager Make So Much Money? “Meyer guarantees clients will never lose…
- June 14, 2016All Forms of Government Rigged Economic Manipulation Are Gross
Feedback in regarding my podcast here: I think he’s referring to that guy who wrote Chavez was great… [David Sirota] used to have a column in one of the daily papers here…
- April 21, 2016If You Can’t Write It Down… How Can You Trade It?
A great line from one of the oldest running trend followers: “I’m very uncomfortable with black box trading where I’m dealing with algorithms I don’t understand. Everything we do we could do…
- March 14, 2016Never Ending Trend Following Confusion
Feedback in: Hi Michael, I thought you might like this. I found a cute little paragraph about trend following (use of technical analysis) in CFA level 2 Schweser notes. Love the last…
- February 14, 2016Ep. 424: The Wizard Jeremy Siegel Filleted with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
Subscribe to Trend Following Radio on iTunes 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…