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Ep. 322: Sophia Roosth Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Posted on by Michael Covel
Sophia Roosth
Sophia Roosth

My guest today is Sophia Roosth, a Harvard professor that Covel first heard quoted on DNA privacy from Davos. Roosth’s research focuses on the twentieth and twenty-first century life sciences. Her first book, based on four years of ethnographic fieldwork, examines how the life sciences are changing at a moment when researchers build new biological systems in order to investigate how biology works. In this work, Roosth asks what happens to “life” as a conceptual category when experimentation and fabrication converge.

The topic is science.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

  • Davos event
  • What becomes of privacy in a moment of internet surveillance
  • Having more information out there as a way to control privacy
  • Biological privacy, and whether our DNA is going down a path where it’s a lot more public
  • Discrimination based on genome
  • Genetic McCarthyism
  • Somatic transfer and cloning
  • The story of Chance the bull
  • The idea of de-extinction
  • The ethics of cloning
  • Molecular gastronomy and world hunger

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Ep. 321: Michael Lardon Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Posted on by Michael Covel
Michael Lardon
Michael Lardon

My guest today is Michael Lardon, one of the premier mental performance coaches in the world, with clients in more than a dozen professional and Olympic sports. His athletes have won major golf championships, Olympic gold medals, Super Bowls and World Series titles, among other achievements. He is an Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of California San Diego and a Consulting Psychiatrist to the United States Olympic Teams at the Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista, CA.

The topic is mental performance coaching.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

  • Lardon’s early experiences playing professional table tennis; the “slowing down of time” and how it affects performance
  • The importance of mental performance in sports
  • Phil Mickelson’s loss at the 2013 Open and his win at the British Open a month later, and how Lardon was assisting him during this period
  • “The yips”, and what is going on in the mind when someone can no longer perform a simple activity they used to accomplish easily
  • Neurological vs. psychological “yips”
  • Lardon’s opinion on what’s happening with Tiger Woods currently
  • Narrow, intense focus vs. dropping the intense expenditure of energy when you don’t need it (ie. what do you do with your downtime?)
  • The process of desensitization
  • The deliberate plan for improvement and the importance of writing things down

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Ep. 319: Salem Abraham Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Salem Abraham
Salem Abraham

My guest today is Salem Abraham, the President of Abraham Trading Company with a 27-year track record. Salem graduated cum laude from the University of Notre Dame in December 1987 with a bachelor’s degree in finance. He began his investing career as a futures trader while still in college, using quantitative models to trade global futures markets beginning in 1987.

The topic is Trend Following.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

  • Living in Asia and Asian economics
  • A market lesson Abraham first learned in 1987
  • The recent action of the Swiss Franc
  • Artificially priced markets and the analogy of a dam
  • Crude Oil as a trend
  • Speculation at the core of Abraham’s business and its effect on markets generally
  • The effect of Abraham’s grandfather on his work
  • The influences on Abraham’s thinking and business decisions
  • Location independence
  • The importance of a link to the outside world
  • Avoiding disaster
  • Being agnostic to the market

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Ep. 318: Christopher Chabris Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Christopher Chabris
Christopher Chabris

My guest today is Christopher Chabris, an American research psychologist, currently Associate Professor of Psychology and co-director of the Neuroscience Program at Union College in Schenectady, New York, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Neurology at Albany Medical College and a Research Affiliate at the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence.

The topic is his book The Invisible Gorilla: How Our Intuitions Deceive Us.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

  • Witnesses, memory, and the legal system
  • Expert witness testimony
  • “The play that changed poker”
  • Mastery in any field
  • The connection between chess and memory
  • Chabris’ interaction with Neil deGrasse Tyson, and how memory affects our outlook
  • The stock market, prediction, and forecasting
  • The importance of confidence with regard to predictions
  • Simple rules vs. complex rules
  • Oprah Winfrey, Malcolm Gladwell, and intuition
  • Memory and the influx of information coming at us

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Mark Spitznagel Trend Following Radio Feedback

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Mr. Covel, during Derman’s interview you mentioned Mark Spitznagel, and having read the Dao of Capital, it seems that his ideological views are a pillar of his investment philosophy. As a fellow libertarian I was wondering how much of your ideological stance has shaped your strategy. Do you feel that your choice for trend following is intimately related with your libertarian views?

Many thanks,
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I did not plan it that way, but it has worked out that both align.

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Billy Walters Interview

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Ep. 316: Gary Antonacci Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Gary Antonacci
Gary Antonacci

My guest today is Gary Antonacci. Antonacci focuses on two issues in the quant world: relative strength price momentum with trend following absolute momentum. He’s developed a strategy where he believes it’s best to combine both.

The topic is his book Dual Momentum Investing: An Innovative Strategy for Higher Returns with Lower Risk.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

  • Momentum vs. trend
  • Relative strength momentum, cross sectional momentum, absolute momentum, and time series momentum
  • Trend following vs. managed futures as terms
  • Antonacci’s early history and how he found his way into the career he has today
  • Three legendary traders that crossed paths with Antonacci early on
  • The efficient market hypothesis as a less-than-solid foundation
  • Buying higher highs
  • Ray Dalio and risk parity strategies
  • Academic perspectives on momentum
  • The interaction and correlation between the two momentum strategies (relative and absolute)

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