My guest today is Jenny Blake, an international speaker, career and business strategist and executive coach with expertise on systems, efficiency and career fluidity in the rapidly-evolving knowledge economy. Formerly a Career Development Program Manager at Google (and author of the book Pivot, and before that, Life After College). She help leaders, employees and entrepreneurs achieve greater clarity, engagement, fulfillment and impact.
The topic is her book Pivot: The Only Move That Matters is Your Next One.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
Ditching the cognitive junk food
Efficiency
The pivot method
Mindfulness practice
The happiness formula
Rejection is a stepping stone
“As we become better at pivoting, we also become better at experimenting.” – Jenny Blake
My name is [Name], from Toronto Canada. I wanted to thank you for writing your books on trend followingand mainly for making audio book versions. I spend a lot of time driving and find the audio versions outstanding. I start “friend following” on a road trip from Toronto to Chicago. I wanted to continue driving just so I didn’t have to stop listening. I have now started reading The Complete TurtleTrader, and am hungry for more. I wanted to know if you are ever going to be in the Toronto area for any conferences or trade shows? I would love to attend and if possible buy you a coffee.
Thank you.
Sounds like a plan! Thanks for the nice words.
NOTE: Trend Following, TurtleTrader and Trend Commandments went live with audio books in 2016. All three are available.
My guest today is Norton Reamer, the former Chief Investment Officer and CEO of Putnam Investments. He also founded and ran United Asset Management for 20 years. He has 50 years of experience on Wall Street. Today, Michael and Norton talk about his new book, “Investment: A History.” It is a detailed anthology on investment.
The topic is his book Investment: A History.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio:
Personal responsibility in the stock market
The role of financial leverage
Resource allocation
The suspension of diligence during economic booms
Efficient markets vs. Behavioral markets
Warren Buffett and survivorship bias
Tail risk
Quant and momentum style trading
Practicing caution in the markets
What impact does interest rates have on the value of assets
My guest today is David Stockman, a former United States congressman. His books include, “The Great Deformation”, and “Trumped: A Nation on the Brink of Ruin… And How to Bring it Back”. He is the ultimate Washington insider turned iconoclast. He began his career in Washington as a young man and quickly rose through the ranks of the Republican Party to become the Director of the Office of Management and Budget under President Ronald Reagan. After leaving the White House, Stockman had a 20-year career on Wall Street.
The topics are his books Trumped! A Nation on the Brink of Ruin … and How to Bring It Back and The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
Glass Steagall
Clinton and Trump campaigns
Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders supporters
Deutsche Bank
European banking system
Sub-zero interest rates
Chinese economy
2016 Election as a turning point in America
“[Economists] are making it up by the day, as they go along. This stuff is really stupid and it is getting crazier by the day.” – David Stockman
My guest today is Ted Parkhill. Ted has over 25 years of management experience in the investment business. He is a founding partner of systematic macro investment manager Incline Investment Management (IIM). He is also serves as an Assistant Professor of business at Sierra Nevada College in Incline Village, NV. Prior to IIM he was the director of marketing for Zazove Associates a multi-billion dollar quantitative convertible securities manager. He was a senior marketing executive at John W. Henry & Company one of the original Commodity Trading Advisors.
The topic is Trend Following.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
It is possible to consistently generate profitable returns through systematic trading
Markets are inefficient and therefore trends materialize
Trends last longer than people think
Prices reflect the sum of the knowledge of all market participants
“…Human nature never changes. Therefore, the stock market never changes. Only the faces, the pockets, the suckers, and the manipulators, the wars, the disasters and the technologies change. The market itself never changes. How can it? Human nature never changes, and human nature runs the market – not reason, not economics, and certainly not logic. It is our human emotions that drive the market, as they do most other things on this planet.” – Jesse Livermore 1940
Please enjoy my monologue The Fight for Liberty with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio. This episode may also include great outside guests from my archive.
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