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Ep. 405: Didier Sornette Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Didier Sornette
Didier Sornette

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My guest today is Didier Sornette, the Professor on the Chair of Entrepreneurial Risks at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich. He is also a professor of the Swiss Finance Institute, associated with both the department of Physics and the department of Earth Sciences at ETH Zurich. He has worked on the King effect, a theory used to predict economic bubbles. Didier also set up the Financial Crisis Observatory in October of 2008. He brings an interesting perspective to financial crisis’s, and bubbles.

The topic is market bubbles.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

  • The adaptive market hypothesis
  • Dragon Kings vs. Black Swans
  • New economy syndrome
  • Predictive markets
  • Finite singularity
  • Equilibrium of the world

“When herding behaviour among investors ramps up, a stock’s or index’s growth rate can increase faster than exponentially, leading to more herding. This positive feedback brings the system to a tipping point. About two-thirds of the time, a crash results.” – Didier Sornette

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Ep. 403: Barbara Fredrickson Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Barbara Fredrickson
Barbara Fredrickson

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My guest today is Barbara Fredrickson, a professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the Kenan Distinguished Professor of Psychology, and the Principal Investigator of the Positive Emotions and Psychophysiology Lab at the University of North Carolina. She is a social psychologist that conducts research in emotions and positive psychology.

The topic is her book Love 2.0: Finding Happiness and Health in Moments of Connection.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

  • Inner-experiences and well being
  • The undoing effect
  • Positive negative ratio
  • The body’s definition of love
  • Depression
  • The idea of soul mates
  • Emotional connections
  • Relationship of health and positive emotion

“When two people connect over shared positivity there is a biochemical cascade within each person.” – Barbara Fredrickson

“Positive emotions are equally altering our action urges but instead of narrowing them, they broaden our thought and action repertoire so that we can see the big picture and potentially go in many possible directions, not just one direction.” – Barbara Fredrickson

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Ep. 402: Charles Faulkner on Goals with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Charles Faulkner on Goals with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
Charles Faulkner on Goals with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Please enjoy my monologue Charles Faulkner on Goals; Special Episode. This episode may also include great outside guests from my archive.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio:

  • How to set goals
  • How to achieve your goals
  • Externalizing your inner-dialogue
  • The importance of milestones

“We are very good at looking back on things and seeing how we got somewhere, it’s the looking forward thing that throws us off from time to time.” – Charles Faulkner

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Ep 401: Ben Carlson Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Ben Carlson
Ben Carlson

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My guest today is Ben Carlson, the Director of Institutional Asset Management at Ritholtz Wealth Management. He’s been managing institutional portfolios for my entire career. He started out with an institutional investment consulting firm developing portfolio strategies and creating investment plans for various foundations, endowments, pensions, hospitals, insurance companies and high net worth individuals. He was part of the portfolio management team for an investment office that managed a large endowment fund for a charitable organization.

The topic is his book A Wealth of Common Sense: Why Simplicity Trumps Complexity in Any Investment Plan.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

  • Diversification
  • The purpose of a long only commodities investment
  • Speculation
  • Index funds
  • Having a plan
  • Risk and Reward
  • Saying no

“You can’t invest in the market as you wish it would be, you have to invest in it as it is.” – Ben Carlson

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Ep. 400: Special Tom Basso Compilation with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Tom Basso
Tom Basso

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Please enjoy this Special Tom Basso Compilation Episode with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio.

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Ep 399: Brett Steenbarger Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Brett Steenbarger
Brett Steenbarger

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My guest today is Brett Steenbarger, a Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at New York State University, author of “The Daily Trading Coach,” “The Psychology of Trading,” and “Enhancing Trader Performance.” His newest work is “Trading Psychology 2.0: From Best Practices to Best Processes.” He is a trading coach, psychologist, author, blogger, and stock index trader.

The topic is trading psychology.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

  • The emotional “buy in”
  • Checklists
  • Finding a smooth equity curve
  • Repeated performance vs. deliberate practice
  • The role of fitness and health in trading
  • The moment of now
  • Systems trading vs. discretionary trader
  • Relationship between volatility and volume

“The fantasy of easy riches collides with the reality of what you need to do to prepare to win and I think that creates quite a dissidence for many beginning traders and ultimately leads them to leave the field.” – Brett Steenbarger

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Ep. 395: Rob Walling Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Rob Walling
Rob Walling

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My guest today is Rob Walling. Rob may not be a trader, but he is a serial entrepreneur. And trading at its heart, after all, is an entrepreneurial activity. He is an author, podcaster, and angel investor. He is the author of Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer’s Guide to Launching a Startup, which was published in 2010. Walling is the founder of email marketing software Drip that was acquired in a life-changing exit by Leadpages in July 2016.

The topic is serial entrepreneur.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

  • Rob Walling’s “Stair-Step Approach”
  • Growth hackers
  • The act of creating
  • Focusing on the “Unicorn” rather than reality
  • Filtering your information
  • Skin deep information

“Software becomes like building a skyscraper. You can’t go back and replace that foundation. Once it’s up, its just too hard.” – Rob Walling

“It’s easy to be great, its hard to be consistent” – Steve Martin

“You can’t jump to the majors if you haven’t played little league yet.” – Rob Walling

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