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Ep. 327: Susan Polgar Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Posted on by Michael Covel
Susan Polgar
Susan Polgar

My guests today are Susan Polgar and Douglas Goldstein.

Susan Polgar, American chess grandmaster, and Douglas Goldstein, Certified Financial Planner, had the unique idea of looking at chess and applying the wisdom to investing.

The topic is their book Rich As A King: How the Wisdom of Chess Can Make You a Grandmaster of Investing.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

  • Polgar’s early history as a four-year-old chess playing prodigy, and the trouble some older males had in accepting her; nurture vs. nature; the connection between the Turtle story and chess; the skills that chess provides outside of just playing the game; the importance of keeping your emotions in check; process vs. outcome; and thinking through the possibilities from a chess perspective.
  • Douglas Goldstein, Covel discusses how the idea came about to combine finance with chess in a book; tactics vs. strategy; and pattern recognition

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Ep. 326: Kabir Sehgal Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Kabir Sehgal
Kabir Sehgal

My guest today is Kabir Sehgal, a New York Times bestselling author and Grammy Award-winning producer. He is currently a vice president at JPMorgan Chase. Sehgal’s new book, Coined: The Rich Life of Money and How Its History Has Shaped Us, caught Covel’s eye. This is a subject layered in complexity and depth. Just about everything that goes on in our lives is decided by money and Sehgal digs into its story on a micro level.

The topic is his book Coined: The Rich Life of Money and How Its History Has Shaped Us.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

  • Sehgal’s history
  • Sehgal’s experience winning a Grammy for production and the idea of “no boxes”
  • Why Sehgal sees his life like a jazz composition
  • Defining money as a symbol of value
  • The neurological effects and artistic aspects of money
  • The currency of the natural world
  • Whether Sehgal sees “money as the root of all evil”
  • The idea of charity
  • The politics of money
  • The internationalization of currency
  • Hyperinflation
  • Gold, and Sehgal’s experience going to the basement of the New York Fed
  • Digital money and bitcoin

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Ep. 323: Jerry Parker Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Jerry Parker
Jerry Parker

My guest today is Jerry Parker, an original Turtle, trained by Richard Dennis. However, since then he has very successfully run a managed money firm called Chesapeake Capital.

The topic is Trend Following.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

  • Series of tweets written by Parker and use them as a jumping-off point for conversation. Topics include price action, “normal” market behavior
  • Recent moves in the Swiss Franc
  • Paying attention to entries as well as exits
  • Why investors are often their own worst enemy
  • The first moment that Parker heard about price-based trading
  • Becoming obsessed with asymmetrical risk and reward
  • Why looking at trend following losses is important
  • Why you can tell a system is robust if it has big drawdowns
  • Backtesting and treating all trades with equal weight

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Ep. 322: Sophia Roosth Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Sophia Roosth
Sophia Roosth

My guest today is Sophia Roosth, a Harvard professor that Covel first heard quoted on DNA privacy from Davos. Roosth’s research focuses on the twentieth and twenty-first century life sciences. Her first book, based on four years of ethnographic fieldwork, examines how the life sciences are changing at a moment when researchers build new biological systems in order to investigate how biology works. In this work, Roosth asks what happens to “life” as a conceptual category when experimentation and fabrication converge.

The topic is science.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

  • Davos event
  • What becomes of privacy in a moment of internet surveillance
  • Having more information out there as a way to control privacy
  • Biological privacy, and whether our DNA is going down a path where it’s a lot more public
  • Discrimination based on genome
  • Genetic McCarthyism
  • Somatic transfer and cloning
  • The story of Chance the bull
  • The idea of de-extinction
  • The ethics of cloning
  • Molecular gastronomy and world hunger

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Ep. 321: Michael Lardon Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Michael Lardon
Michael Lardon

My guest today is Michael Lardon, one of the premier mental performance coaches in the world, with clients in more than a dozen professional and Olympic sports. His athletes have won major golf championships, Olympic gold medals, Super Bowls and World Series titles, among other achievements. He is an Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of California San Diego and a Consulting Psychiatrist to the United States Olympic Teams at the Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista, CA.

The topic is mental performance coaching.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

  • Lardon’s early experiences playing professional table tennis; the “slowing down of time” and how it affects performance
  • The importance of mental performance in sports
  • Phil Mickelson’s loss at the 2013 Open and his win at the British Open a month later, and how Lardon was assisting him during this period
  • “The yips”, and what is going on in the mind when someone can no longer perform a simple activity they used to accomplish easily
  • Neurological vs. psychological “yips”
  • Lardon’s opinion on what’s happening with Tiger Woods currently
  • Narrow, intense focus vs. dropping the intense expenditure of energy when you don’t need it (ie. what do you do with your downtime?)
  • The process of desensitization
  • The deliberate plan for improvement and the importance of writing things down

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Ep. 319: Salem Abraham Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Salem Abraham
Salem Abraham

My guest today is Salem Abraham, the President of Abraham Trading Company with a 27-year track record. Salem graduated cum laude from the University of Notre Dame in December 1987 with a bachelor’s degree in finance. He began his investing career as a futures trader while still in college, using quantitative models to trade global futures markets beginning in 1987.

The topic is Trend Following.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

  • Living in Asia and Asian economics
  • A market lesson Abraham first learned in 1987
  • The recent action of the Swiss Franc
  • Artificially priced markets and the analogy of a dam
  • Crude Oil as a trend
  • Speculation at the core of Abraham’s business and its effect on markets generally
  • The effect of Abraham’s grandfather on his work
  • The influences on Abraham’s thinking and business decisions
  • Location independence
  • The importance of a link to the outside world
  • Avoiding disaster
  • Being agnostic to the market

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