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Ep. 422: The Pay People Deserve with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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The Pay People Deserve with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
The Pay People Deserve with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Please enjoy my monologue The Pay People Deserve 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:

  • Unemployment
  • Minimum Wage
  • Ayn Rand
  • American economics
  • The seen and unseen consequences of a law
  • Libertarianism

“Given that minimum wages hurt the very people they are supposed to help, by restricting workers’ freedom, reducing their choices, and increasing unemployment, One must wonder why, despite decades of consensus among economists, politicians and pundits continue supporting these destructive regulations. They often do so because they want ‘send the right message’ about the ‘kind of society’ we want to live in. While this appears well-intentioned, the principle underlying such arguments is actually quite perverse: that it is better for us to feel good than to actually do good.” – Daniel Bier

“Prices are not levels that set value, they are metrics that reflect value.” – Anthony Davies

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Ep. 421: Steve Kamb Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Steve Kamb
Steve Kamb

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My guest today is Steve Kamb, the founder of Nerd Fitness and leader of this rag-tag group of misfits. He is an American fitness instructor, publisher and writer best known for promoting health and wellness at the website and fitness center NerdFitness.com.

The topic is his book Level Up Your Life: How to Unlock Adventure and Happiness by Becoming the Hero of Your Own Story.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

  • Traveling domestic and internationally
  • The hero’s journey
  • Marketing yourself
  • Marketing to a niche
  • What is a nerd?
  • Tailoring your fitness needs

“Surround yourself with people that are challenging you and making you better.” – Steve Kamb

“Life is meant to be lived on your own terms.” – Michael Covel

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Ep. 420: Inequality of Effort with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Inequality of Effort with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
Inequality of Effort with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Please enjoy my monologue Inequality of Effort 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:

  • Two Americas
  • Crowd behavior
  • Marketing yourself

“The crowds favorite words include fast, easy, cheap, fun, now, and simple.” – Seth Godin

“One group will preach equality of outcome as a right while completely ignoring inequality of effort.” – Source Unknown

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Ep. 419: Mebane Faber Interview With Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Mebane Faber
Mebane Faber

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My guest today is Mebane Faber, a co-founder and the Chief Investment Officer of Cambria Investment Management. Faber is the manager of Cambria’s ETFs, separate accounts and private investment funds. Mr. Faber has authored numerous white papers and three books: Shareholder Yield, The Ivy Portfolio, and Global Value. He is a frequent speaker and writer on investment strategies and has been featured in Barron’s, The New York Times, and The New Yorker. Mr. Faber graduated from the University of Virginia with a double major in Engineering Science and Biology.

The topics are his books The Ivy Portfolio: How to Invest Like the Top Endowments and Avoid Bear Markets and Invest With The House: Hacking The Top Hedge Funds.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio:

  • Home country bias
  • Diversification
  • Different trading strategies
  • Finding the most successful hedge funds
  • Margin of safety

“Look beyond your shores. You have to be investment agnostic. As much as I love my home team, you have to be agnostic while investing.” – Mebane Faber

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Ep. 418: Everyone is a Closet Trend Follower with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Everyone is a Closet Trend Follower with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
Everyone is a Closet Trend Follower with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Please enjoy my monologue Everyone is a Closet Trend Follower 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:

  • What is a technician?
  • Diversification
  • Risk management
  • Trading off price

“Price creates the reality for investors because investors take their behavioral cues from price and the media fashions their headlines from it.” – Josh Brown

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Ep. 417: Robert Carver Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Robert Carver
Robert Carver

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My guest today is Robert Carver. He got his start in finance working at AHL. Robert started with AHL in 2001 during his final year of college. It was at this time that he was introduced to quantitative trading and began thinking of finance in a systematic way. He later went back to AHL, working there from 2006-2013. He is an independent systematic futures trader and investor, writer, and research consultant. He is currently a visiting lecturer at Queen Mary, University of London.

The topic is his book Systematic Trading: A unique new method for designing trading and investing systems.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

  • Unpredictable risk vs. Predictable risk
  • Systematic trading
  • High frequency trading vs. Trend following trading
  • Black swans
  • When to intervene with your system
  • 2008 crash

“People rarely evaluate themselves critically and properly work out how well they have done in their discretionary trading activity, and look at statistics properly to examine whether they are genuinely doing much better than a system. I think a lot of people out there are fooling themselves.” – Robert Carver

“The more complicated the notion of what your predicable risk is, the less and less you think about the un-predictable risk.” – Robert Carver

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Ep. 416: Market Timing Confusion with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Market Timing Confusion with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
Market Timing Confusion with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Please enjoy my monologue Market Timing Confusion 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:

  • Diversification
  • Seth Godin’s 2016 predictions
  • Market timing
  • Understanding psychology in trading
  • Pitfalls of overconfidence

“Conflict is fed by overconfidence.” – Daniel Kahneman

“If market timing is a sin, then there are times when even saints can be tempted into sinning a little.”- Clifford Asness, Antti Ilmanen and Thomas Maloney

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