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Ep. 436: Tom Bilyeu Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Tom Bilyeu
Tom Bilyeu

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My guest today is Tom Bilyeu, an American Entrepreneur. He is best known as the co-founder of Quest Nutrition and the co-founder and CEO of Impact Theory.

The topic is entrepreneur.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio:

  • Discipline and practice
  • The Quest belief system
  • Escaping the Matrix
  • Tom Bilyeu’s ultimate reading list
  • Being authentic
  • Obesity
  • Autopilot thought process
  • International food regulations
  • Letting go of being right
  • Reaching your true fans

“Do that which moves you towards your goals. Do not do that which moves you away from your goals” – Quest belief system

“You can learn what you need to learn, and if you are willing to accumulate enough skills, there really is no limit to what you can do.” – Tom Bilyeu

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Ep. 435: Steven Pinker Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Steven Pinker
Steven Pinker

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My guest today is Steven Pinker, a Canadian-born American cognitive scientist, psychologist, linguist, and popular science author. He is Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University, and is known for his advocacy of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of mind. He covers phenomena that have traditionally not been looked at scientifically such as: visual perception, war and peace, and differences in writing styles. He has authored numerous books with his most recent being, “The Sense of Style.”

The topics are his books The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century and Blank Slate.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

  • Evolution
  • Natural selection
  • War statistics
  • Cognitive science
  • Evolutionary psychology

“I don’t think there is any single procedure called the scientific method. I think that science just is the attempt to explain phenomena using explanations that you can show to the best of your ability are true.” – Steven Pinker

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Ep 433: Catherine Stott Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Catherine Stott
Catherine Stott

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My guest today is Catherine Stott, the author of, “Hypnotrading: A practical guide to using hypnosis and NLP to improve your trading performance: Self-hypnosis and psychotherapeutic techniques for traders.” Catherine believes that hypnotherapy and neuro-lingustic programing can help traders defeat inner challenges and become more successful. She got started working with traders after helping a friend, who happened to be a trader. He helped her understand the world of trading a bit more throughout their sessions and this ignited her interest deeper. She has been helping traders for years but didn’t start HypnoTrading until 2014.

The topic is her book Hypnotrading: A Practical Guide to Using Hypnosis and NLP to Improve Your Trading Performance.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio:

  • Stress vs. anxiety
  • Meditation vs. hypnosis
  • Being in a relaxed state
  • Negative self talk
  • Fear of success
  • Modeling
  • P-A-C-E-R
  • Luck and expectation
  • Defining goal setting

“It’s about your experience rather than your academic ability, and your drive and thrive for learning and achieving.” Catherine Stott

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Ep. 429: Jim Rogers Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Jim Rogers

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My guest today is Jim Rogers, an American investor and financial commentator based in Singapore. Rogers is the chairman of Beeland Interests, Inc. He was the co-founder of the Quantum Fund and Soros Fund Management. He was also the creator of the Rogers International Commodities Index (RICI). Rogers does not consider himself a member of any school of economic thought, but has acknowledged that his views best fit the label of the Austrian School of economics.

The topic is central banking system.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

  • Negative interest rates
  • Central banking systems
  • Market crashes
  • The impact of unintended consequences
  • Preparing for the future

“For the last 30 years look at who we have had down there [as the head of the Federal Reserve]. They have all been academic and political hacks.” – Jim Rogers

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Ep. 427: Michael Ellsberg Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Michael Ellsberg
Michael Ellsberg

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My guest today is Michael Ellsberg, an American author, blogger and public speaker. Ellsberg is credited for inventing “eye-gazing parties,” a craze in 2010 where participants stare deeply into each other’s eyes and follow up if they feel they made a connection. He is also a book editor and has spoken at Google and Peter Thiel’s Fellow Retreat.

The topics are his books The Last Safe Investment: Spending Now to Increase Your True Wealth Forever and The Education of Millionaires: Everything You Won’t Learn in College About How to Be Successful.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

  • Super skill vs. Market skill
  • Systemic spending
  • Cultivating meaningful relationships
  • Thinking three dimensional
  • Creating happiness in your life

“The things you actually want to experience in your life, you can’t just buy them when you’re 65.” – Michael Ellsberg

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Ep. 426: Vineer Bhansali Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Vineer Bhansali
Vineer Bhansali

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My guest today is Vineer Bhansali, founder and CIO of Long Tail Alpha. Vineer’s 29-year investment career started at Citibank, where he founded and managed the Exotic and Hybrid Options Trading Desk. He later joined Salomon Brothers in its Fixed Income Arbitrage Group, followed by the CSFB Proprietary Trading Group. Dr. Bhansali was at PIMCO for 16 years, serving the last eight years as MD and Head of the Quantitative Portfolios Team, which he founded in 2008.

The topic is his journal A Behavioral Perspective on Tail Risk Hedging.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

  • Is trend following mean reverting?
  • Tail risks
  • Tail hedges
  • Human behavior and biases
  • Importance of a dynamic portfolio

“[Trading] really very much depends on people’s behavior and your extraction of what is driving that behavior.” – Vineer Bhansali

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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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