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Ep. 318: Christopher Chabris Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Christopher Chabris
Christopher Chabris

My guest today is Christopher Chabris, an American research psychologist, currently Associate Professor of Psychology and co-director of the Neuroscience Program at Union College in Schenectady, New York, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Neurology at Albany Medical College and a Research Affiliate at the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence.

The topic is his book The Invisible Gorilla: How Our Intuitions Deceive Us.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

  • Witnesses, memory, and the legal system
  • Expert witness testimony
  • “The play that changed poker”
  • Mastery in any field
  • The connection between chess and memory
  • Chabris’ interaction with Neil deGrasse Tyson, and how memory affects our outlook
  • The stock market, prediction, and forecasting
  • The importance of confidence with regard to predictions
  • Simple rules vs. complex rules
  • Oprah Winfrey, Malcolm Gladwell, and intuition
  • Memory and the influx of information coming at us

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Mark Spitznagel Trend Following Radio Feedback

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Mr. Covel, during Derman’s interview you mentioned Mark Spitznagel, and having read the Dao of Capital, it seems that his ideological views are a pillar of his investment philosophy. As a fellow libertarian I was wondering how much of your ideological stance has shaped your strategy. Do you feel that your choice for trend following is intimately related with your libertarian views?

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I did not plan it that way, but it has worked out that both align.

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Ep. 317: Michael Covel Monologue and Peter Shankman Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Peter Shankman
Peter Shankman

Please enjoy my monologue Michael Covel Monologue and Peter Shankman Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio. This episode may also include great outside guests from my archive.

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Billy Walters Interview

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Ep. 316: Gary Antonacci Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Gary Antonacci
Gary Antonacci

My guest today is Gary Antonacci. Antonacci focuses on two issues in the quant world: relative strength price momentum with trend following absolute momentum. He’s developed a strategy where he believes it’s best to combine both.

The topic is his book Dual Momentum Investing: An Innovative Strategy for Higher Returns with Lower Risk.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

  • Momentum vs. trend
  • Relative strength momentum, cross sectional momentum, absolute momentum, and time series momentum
  • Trend following vs. managed futures as terms
  • Antonacci’s early history and how he found his way into the career he has today
  • Three legendary traders that crossed paths with Antonacci early on
  • The efficient market hypothesis as a less-than-solid foundation
  • Buying higher highs
  • Ray Dalio and risk parity strategies
  • Academic perspectives on momentum
  • The interaction and correlation between the two momentum strategies (relative and absolute)

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Ep. 315: Michael Mauboussin Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Michael Mauboussin
Michael Mauboussin

My guest today is Michael Mauboussin, an investment strategist in the financial services industry, professor at the Columbia Graduate School of Business, and serves on the board of trustees at the Sante Fe Institute (an independent, nonprofit theoretical research institute). He is managing director and head of Global Financial Strategies at Credit Suisse, where he advises clients on valuation and portfolio positioning, capital markets theory, competitive strategy analysis, and decision making.

The topics are his books More Than You Know and Think Twice: Harnessing the Power of Counterintuition.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

  • Multi-disciplinary thinking and its influence on Covel
  • Looking at larger reference classes
  • The Swiss Franc
  • Mauboussin’s personal take on the recent oil move
  • Fundamentals and expectation
  • Luck or skill when it comes to trading profits
  • The paradox of skill, absolute, and relative skill
  • Whether scientific principles of luck exist
  • Defining luck
  • Outcome bias
  • The general public perception of behavioral economics

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Ep. 314: Peter Larson Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Peter Larson
Peter Larson

My guest today is Peter Larson, an American paleontologist, fossil collector, and president of the Black Hills Institute of Geological Research, a company that excavates, prepares, and sells fossils. He led the team that excavated “Sue”, the largest and most complete specimen of Tyrannosaurus rex found to date, and has published numerous scientific and popular works on dinosaur paleontology.

The topic is paleontology.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

  • Luck’s role in finding dinosaurs
  • Larson’s personal anecdotes about finding “Sue”
  • Whether Larson knew at the time that he was finding a piece of “land” in a legal sense
  • The scientific data that Larson was able to glean before the government took the bones
  • Telling a male dinosaur from a female dinosaur
  • What makes Larson a T-Rex entrepreneur
  • T-Rex as a predator or scavenger
  • The legal case surrounding “Sue”

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