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Ep. 261: Andy Puddicombe Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Andy Puddicombe
Andy Puddicombe

My guest today is Andy Puddicombe, the founder of Headspace, an award-winning digital health platform that provides guided meditation sessions. Puddicombe is a former Buddhist monk with a degree in Circus Arts.

The topic is meditation.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

  • Puddicombe’s background and how he came into the position he is in today
  • Some traumatic events which may have had an influence on Puddicombe’s decision to become a monk
  • Covel’s own meditation experience
  • Comparing mindfulness and meditation
  • The importance of a daily practice
  • Stress and the science behind meditation
  • Neuroplasticity
  • The wandering mind and unhappiness
  • The idea of the present moment, and how traders that embrace the present moment have an advantage
  • Intuition

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Ep. 260: Sally Hogshead Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Sally Hogshead
Sally Hogshead

My guest today is Sally Hogshead, a New York Times bestselling author, National Speakers Association Hall of Fame speaker, chief executive officer of How to Fascinate (Fascinate, Inc) and a former advertising executive.

The topic is her book How The World Sees You: Discover Your Highest Value Through The Science of Fascination.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

  • Fascination and paying attention
  • The seven different categories of things that fascinate us
  • What those who fascinate have in common
  • Developing a personality assessment that shows how the world sees you
  • Understanding your own personal branding
  • Analyzing Michael Covel’s own fascination survey
  • Not being a commodity
  • Why if you’re not generating a negative reaction from someone, you’re probably not fascinating anyone
  • Why you don’t want to be vanilla ice cream

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Ep. 259: Bucky Isaacson Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Bucky Isaacson
Bucky Isaacson

My guest today is Bucky Isaacson, one of the early pioneers of managed futures. In 1969, he helped to develop one of the first computerized trading systems. He’s been involved in the managed futures industry ever since, particularly in Asia and the US.

The topic is managed futures.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

  • Fractured state of conferences these days
  • What it was like to be involved with a group developing a computerized trading system in 1969
  • Being with one of the earliest incarnations of a managed futures firm
  • Trading attitudes
  • Marketing and doing business in Asia
  • Differences in business practices between Asian countries
  • Refco, MF Global, PFG and other aberrations that have damaged the Chicago futures brand
  • Madoff as a marketer
  • Raising the initial capital to start a trading venture
  • How to differentiate yourself from a marketing perspective
  • Growth in the managed futures industry

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Ep. 258: Megan McArdle Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Megan McArdle
Megan McArdle

My guest today is Megan McArdle, a Bloomberg View columnist who writes on economics, business and public policy. She founded the blog “Asymmetrical Information”.

The topic is her book The Up Side of Down: Why Failing Well Is the Key to Success.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

  • “Trophy kids” and taking the monkey bars away
  • The idea of a regulator out there trying to guarantee our safety
  • Why the companies that make it aren’t the ones with the best strategic plan–it’s the ones that execute (and fail well)
  • The power of experimentation
  • Nobel winner Vernon Smith and experimentation
  • The idea of learning in crisis
  • How sunk costs are difficult for a large part of the population to grasp
  • Van Halen, errors, and M&M’s
  • Normative error
  • Small, manageable risks
  • Forager morality vs. farmer morality
  • A story about Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC)

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Ep. 256: Mike Harris Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Mike Harris
Mike Harris

Today on the podcast, Michael Covel speaks with Mike Harris. Harris is President of Campbell & Company (3B+ AUM), the systematic trading firm started by Keith Campbell (Campbell was featured in Covel’s first book Trend Following). Covel and Harris discuss systematic trading in the early 70’s; education about managed futures; correlation with other markets and managers; trading diverse markets; focusing on data rather than the fundamentals; why “commodities” and “CTA” are misnomers; why Harris wouldn’t fly down to Brazil to investigate fundamental information on the coffee market; risk management, drawdowns, and taking small losses; dealing with uncertainty and helping clients to understand the uncertain nature of trading; how human emotion often gets in the way of profitable trading; the efficient market hypothesis and behavioral finance; continuity and how that has been thought through at Campbell & Company; the Sharpe ratio and why it isn’t the best way to look at systematic traders; and why being defensive is central to being a great absolute return trader. For more information on Campbell & Company, visit www.campbell.com.

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Ep. 255: Tyler Cowen Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Tyler Cowen
Tyler Cowen

My guest today is Tyler Cowen, an American economist, columnist and blogger. He is a professor at George Mason University, where he holds the Holbert L. Harris chair in the economics department. He hosts the economics blog Marginal Revolution, together with co-author Alex Tabarrok.

The topic is economics.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

  • Sabermetrics and the new idea that we will be judged by numbers
  • Cowen’s early experience studying under Nobel Prize winner Thomas Schelling
  • The notion of thinking in terms of paradoxes
  • Why we’re moving from the 1% to the 15%
  • “Average is over” and why Singapore and Israel are the two places in the world where this has come true first
  • Problems because of “average is over” in Singapore
  • Pure free markets
  • Thinking about why past regulations have failed
  • How computers change us
  • Globalization, where things are headed, and what we should be prepared for
  • Zero marginal product workers

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