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Ep. 410: Lessons Comparing Pro Football and Pro Baseball with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Lessons Comparing Pro Football and Pro Baseball with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
Lessons Comparing Pro Football and Pro Baseball with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Please enjoy my monologue Lessons Comparing Pro Football and Pro Baseball 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:

  • The success of Larry Hite
  • Baseball vs. Football
  • Trusting the data

“If you don’t see the exercise in modesty, the honesty inside your own self, how will you ever get to the goal? We have one life, use it well.” – Michael Covel

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Ep. 409: Thomas Sterner Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Tom Sterner
Tom Sterner

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My guest today is Thomas Sterner, the founder and CEO of The Practicing Mind Institute. As a successful entrepreneur he is considered an expert in Present Moment Functioning or PMF tm. He is a popular and in demand speaker who works with high performance individuals including, athletes, industry groups and individuals, helping them to operate effectively within high stress situations so that they can break through to new levels of mastery. He self published the first edition of “The Practicing Mind,” and as it snowballed into a phenomenon, publishers started knocking at his door for wider distribution.

The topic is his book The Practicing Mind: Developing Focus and Discipline in Your Life Master Any Skill or Challenge by Learning to Love the Process.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

  • Attention combined with intention
  • Non-judgment
  • Perils of multitasking
  • Controlling your mind
  • Constant media chatter

“If your not in control of your thoughts, then you are not in control of yourself.” – Thomas Sterner

“All of life is practice in one form or another. Actively practicing something is very different from passively learning. You will never reach a level of performance that feels complete so learn to love the art of practicing your skill.” – Thomas Sterner

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Ep. 408: The Force Awakens with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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The Force Awakens with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
The Force Awakens with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Please enjoy my monologue The Force Awakens 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:

“You can’t teach the beast, its either in you or it isn’t. you cant just go to the store and buy a six pack of beast.” – Kevin Garnett

“The reason the systematic investing community has gotten big is because it is successful. No one should miss that point.” – David Harding

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Ep. 407: Dave Huss Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Teespring
Teespring

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My guest today is Dave Huss. Dave discusses his transition from marketing consultant to entrepreneur. Formerly Dave did consulting work for paid advertising and now has transitioned into t-shirt design and sales (Michael notes that famed trader Salem Abraham had considered the t-shirt business before trading). He has been able to grow his business quickly due to a website called www.teespring.com. This website allows him to order shirts on-demand without any out of pocket expenses.

The topic is entrepreneur.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

  • Contract work vs. Entrepreneur
  • Niche markets
  • Online marketing
  • Importance of a system
  • Survivorship bias

“You have to stay in the game long enough to hit a few home runs and most people, whether that is in t-shirts or trading, they don’t make it.” – Dave Huss

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Ep. 406: Larry Hite Views Outlined with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Larry Hite Views Outlined with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
Larry Hite Views Outlined with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Please enjoy my monologue Larry Hite Views Outlined 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:

  • Respecting leverage
  • Thinking in terms of odds
  • Being wrong is OK
  • Getting the odds on your side
  • Risk management
  • Life is a series of bets

“You don’t trade markets, you trade money.” – Michael Covel

“The first part of the winning process is evaluating who you are and what you’re comfortable doing.” – Larry Hite

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Ep. 405: Didier Sornette Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Didier Sornette
Didier Sornette

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My guest today is Didier Sornette, the Professor on the Chair of Entrepreneurial Risks at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich. He is also a professor of the Swiss Finance Institute, associated with both the department of Physics and the department of Earth Sciences at ETH Zurich. He has worked on the King effect, a theory used to predict economic bubbles. Didier also set up the Financial Crisis Observatory in October of 2008. He brings an interesting perspective to financial crisis’s, and bubbles.

The topic is market bubbles.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

  • The adaptive market hypothesis
  • Dragon Kings vs. Black Swans
  • New economy syndrome
  • Predictive markets
  • Finite singularity
  • Equilibrium of the world

“When herding behaviour among investors ramps up, a stock’s or index’s growth rate can increase faster than exponentially, leading to more herding. This positive feedback brings the system to a tipping point. About two-thirds of the time, a crash results.” – Didier Sornette

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Ep. 403: Barbara Fredrickson Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Barbara Fredrickson
Barbara Fredrickson

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My guest today is Barbara Fredrickson, a professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the Kenan Distinguished Professor of Psychology, and the Principal Investigator of the Positive Emotions and Psychophysiology Lab at the University of North Carolina. She is a social psychologist that conducts research in emotions and positive psychology.

The topic is her book Love 2.0: Finding Happiness and Health in Moments of Connection.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

  • Inner-experiences and well being
  • The undoing effect
  • Positive negative ratio
  • The body’s definition of love
  • Depression
  • The idea of soul mates
  • Emotional connections
  • Relationship of health and positive emotion

“When two people connect over shared positivity there is a biochemical cascade within each person.” – Barbara Fredrickson

“Positive emotions are equally altering our action urges but instead of narrowing them, they broaden our thought and action repertoire so that we can see the big picture and potentially go in many possible directions, not just one direction.” – Barbara Fredrickson

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