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Adopting a Proper Psychological Attitude: Michael Mauboussin Wisdom

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In 2013, the Nobel Prize in economics went to three men. One of the recipients, Robert Shiller, is a professor at Yale University known for showing that markets are inefficient. Another was Eugene Fama, a professor at the University of Chicago known for his advocacy of market efficiency. (The third was Lars Hansen, also at the University of Chicago.) This leads to the first point worth stressing: to be an active investor, you must believe in both inefficiency and efficiency. In other words, you have to think that both Shiller and Fama are right―just not at the same time. Naturally, if markets are perfectly efficient there’s no reason to try to beat them through active management. But it’s also true that there’s no reason to try to beat the market through active management if you think markets are always inefficient. That’s because even if you are savvy enough to buy a dollar for fifty cents, there’s no reason to believe that the price and value will ever converge in a perpetually inefficient market.

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Ep. 476: Commandments with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Commandments with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
Commandments with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Please enjoy my monologue Commandments 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:

  • Political correctness
  • Pussy generation
  • Absolute returns
  • Inefficient markets
  • Market bubbles
  • Fundamentals are religion
  • The market is never wrong
  • Cutting your losses
  • Learn to love your losses
  • Price action
  • Betting the markets properly
  • Failure is the secret to success

“Play calling is about probability, not certainty.” Ron Jaworski

“Failure is the secret. That is the secret to success. That is the magic elixir.” – Michael Covel

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Ep. 472: Silence with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Silence with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
Silence with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Please enjoy my monologue Silence 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:

  • Peace and quiet is all about the noise in your head.
  • Correlations between high blood pressure and chronic noise sources.
  • Possible therapeutic uses for silence.
  • Trend following.

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Ep. 471: Emma Seppala Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Emma Seppälä
Emma Seppälä

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My guest today is Emma Seppala, the author of “The Happiness Track: How to Apply the Science of Happiness to Accelerate Your Success.” She is the Associate Director for the Center of Compassion at Stanford University. Emma’s work isn’t based on theories or common knowledge, there is a tremendous amount of neuroscience backing her work.

The topic is her book The Happiness Track: How to Apply the Science of Happiness to Accelerate Your Success.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio:

  • Benefits of happiness
  • Stresses in life
  • Controlling your mind
  • Happiness in college
  • Cultivating resilience
  • Tapping into the opposite of fight or flight response
  • Impact of different breathing techniques
  • Living in the moment of now
  • Authenticity
  • The flow state
  • Activating creativity

“Self criticism is basically self sabotage.” – Emma Seppala

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Ep. 470: Objective with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Objective with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
Objective with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Please enjoy my monologue Objective 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:

  • Man’s morality
  • Altruism
  • Self sacrifice
  • Free and unregulated economies
  • Capitalism with government help
  • Welfare
  • Depressions due to government interference
  • Strategic decision making

“Man is entitled to his own happiness but he must achieve it himself. He cannot demand that others give up their lives to make him happy.” – Ayn Rand

“I have no faith at all, I only have convictions.” – Ayn Rand

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Ep. 468: Irrationality with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Irrationality with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
Irrationality with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Please enjoy my monologue Irrationality 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:

  • Law of demand
  • Behavioral economics
  • Experimental economics
  • How do you make bubbles go away
  • Using algorithms over emotions
  • Noise reduction
  • Statistical thinking
  • Understanding the difference between risk and uncertainty
  • Probability theory
  • Risk Communication
  • Unconscious things that make us fearful

At the beginning of the 20th century, the science fiction author Herbert H. Wells made the following prediction, ‘If we want efficient citizens in a modern technological society we need to teach them three things: Reading, writing and statistical thinking.’ That is, a good way to deal with risk and certainty. Now, today almost 100 years later we have taught in the investment world almost everyone to read and write, more or less, but not to think with risk and uncertainty. – Gerd Gigerenzer

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Ep. 455: Ryan Holiday Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Ryan Holiday
Ryan Holiday

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My guest today is Ryan Holiday, an American author, public-relations strategist, bookstore owner and host of the podcast The Daily Stoic. He is a former director of marketing for American Apparel. Holiday is the author of several books and has written for Forbes, Fast Company, The Huffington Post, The Columbia Journalism Review, The Guardian, Thought Catalog, Medium.com, New York Observer, New York Times and Texas Monthly. Books he has authored have sold more than three million copies combined.

The topic is his book Ego Is the Enemy.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio:

  • Letting other people win
  • Being seen not heard
  • Only the paranoid survive
  • Dealing with failure
  • Dealing with success

“You control the effort that you put into the work, you don’t control the reception to the work.” – Ryan Holiday

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