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Ep. 451: Daehee Park and JT Marino Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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JT Marino & Daehee Park
JT Marino & Daehee Park

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My guests today are Daehee Park and JT Marino. They are the owners and founders of Tuft and Needle, a modern mattress company. They met during college at Penn State, parted ways after college and then met back up in Silicon Valley at a startup tech company.

The topic is entrepreneur.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio:

  • Marketing a company
  • Growing a startup
  • Product development
  • Importance of customer service
  • Creating art
  • Simplification of products
  • Venture capital

“If you took all of the suggestions and feedback that people give you, you would end up with a Frankenstein of a product.” – Daehee Park and JT Marino

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Ep. 450: Making Money Every Month Is Fantasy with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Making Money Every Month Is Fantasy with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
Making Money Every Month Is Fantasy with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Please enjoy my monologue Making Money Every Month Is Fantasy with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio. This episode may also include great outside guests from my archive.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio:

  • Long Term Capital Management
  • Bernie Madoff
  • Leverage
  • Diversification
  • Indian Stock Market

“Leverage doesn’t matter in this case. Such consistency with low drawdowns goes against nature and cannot exist if it trades long enough.” Michael Melissinos

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Ep. 449: Neil Pasricha Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Neil Pasricha
Neil Pasricha

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My guest today is Neil Pasricha, an author, entrepreneur, podcaster, and public speaker characterized by his advocacy of positivity and simple pleasures. He is also an established speaker and his TEDx talk, “The 3 A’s of Awesome”, is ranked as the ninth most inspiring TEDx talk with over 3 million views to date. In total, he has sold over 1 million books. The book and TED talk are based on Pasricha’s blog, 1000 Awesome Things. The blog has won three Webby Awards and ranked in PC Magazines list of top blogs and websites in 2009 and 2010.

The topic is his book The Happiness Equation: Want Nothing + Do Anything = Have Everything.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio:

  • Happiness
  • Retirement is a lie
  • Loving your work
  • The lottery
  • The note card system
  • Criticism
  • Goals are never ending
  • Having less wants in life

“The action proceeds the motivation.” – Neil Pasricha

“Wealth exists not in having great possessions but in having few wants.” – Epictetus

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Ep. 448: Mike Lofgren Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Mike Lofgren
Mike Lofgren

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My guest today is Mike Lofgren, an author and a former Republican U.S. Congressional aide. He retired in May 2011 after 28 years as a Congressional staff member. His writings, critical of politics in the United States, particularly the Republican Party, were published after his retirement and garnered widespread attention.

The topic is his book The Deep State: The Fall of the Constitution and the Rise of a Shadow Government.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio:

  • The deep state phenomenon
  • Military industrial complex
  • National debt
  • Negative interest rates
  • Does your vote matter?

“If we were ever able to get the money out of politics, that would be the precursor, that’s the precondition for any other reform.” – Mike Lofgren

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Ep. 447: Ben Hunt Interview with Michael Covel and Trend Following Radio

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Ben Hunt
Ben Hunt

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My guest today is Ben Hunt, the Co-Founder and Partner at Second Foundation Partners. He is also the author of Epsilon Theory, a weekly publication that examines capital markets through the lenses of game theory and history. Since its launch in June, 2013 more than 100,000 copies of Epsilon Theory notes have been read by professional investors in more than 110 countries.

The topic is his Epsilon Theory.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

  • Monetary policy
  • What drives the value of currency?
  • Economics in recessions
  • Systematic models
  • Central Banks
  • Policy controlled markets
  • Expectations of the public markets

“Markets are too important to be left to investors.” – Ben Hunt

“It goes back to what I was saying about the overwhelming debt that sloshes around in the world and there are only three ways to get out of that: You can grow your way out, you can inflate your way out or you can assign losses and try to reset.” – Ben Hunt

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Here is a wide sampling of trend following trading interviews on my podcast. Enjoy!

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Ep. 446: Abundant Anarchy with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Abundant Anarchy with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
Abundant Anarchy with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Please enjoy my monologue Abundant Anarchy with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio. This episode may also include great outside guests from my archive.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio:

  • Ego
  • Preparing yourself for the next crash
  • Abundance
  • Downfall of the economy

“Connectivity is giving us a consistency of the like minded.” –Josh Brown

“The only way to save the economy is to crash it. There is too much of everything and it isn’t good for anyone.” –Josh Brown

“Abundance is now the enemy.” –Josh Brown

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