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Ep. 475: Chase Jarvis Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Chase Jarvis
Chase Jarvis

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My guest today is Chase Jarvis, an award winning photographer, director, artist and entrepreneur. He is co-founder of Creative Live, a live educational platform. There is much to learn from his entrepreneurial ventures and how he made it in the photography world.

The topic is his book The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

  • Gaining freedom in your life
  • Entrepreneurship
  • There is no overnight success story

“This is the first time [in history] where it is actually riskier to do the traditional thing.” – Chase Jarvis

“Adventure propels life.” – Chase Jarvis

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Ep. 473: Chris Lochhead Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Chris Lochhead
Chris Lochhead

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My guest today is Christopher Lochhead, the co-author of “Play Bigger: How Pirates, Dreamers, and Innovators Create and Dominate Markets”. He is an unlikely 8-time #1 bestselling Amazon author, #1 charting Apple podcaster, top 1% business newsletter creator, (Category Pirates) and is best known as a “godfather” of Category Design. He’s on a mission to help people design a different future. And ALL of Lochhead’s work is co-created with legendary friends and partners who he is beyond grateful for.

The topic is his book Play Bigger: How Pirates, Dreamers, and Innovators Create and Dominate Markets.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

  • Disrupting the marketplace
  • Product marketing
  • Teaching consumers about your product
  • Creating new market categories
  • The anchoring effect
  • Thunder lizards
  • Category kings
  • The Innovator’s Dilemma
  • Category design

“The company that designs the space is best positioned to dominate the space.” – Christopher Lochhead

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Ep. 469: Laura Roeder Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Laura Roeder
Laura Roeder

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My guest today is Laura Roeder, a serial entrepreneur and her newest company is Edgar, a social media application. She started working for herself creating websites for people when she was 22 living in Chicago. It spread to optimizing traffic and online marketing for her clients. In 2014 she launched her social media software business, Edgar. They haven’t taken any money from investors and have grown to 2.8 million annual revenue.

The topics are entrepreneur and social media.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio:

  • Social media
  • Business competitors
  • Success of Dropbox
  • Keeping up a great reputation
  • Be aware that competitors can access everything
  • Women in the entrepreneurial space

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Ep. 465: Sunrise Capital with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Sunrise Capital with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
Sunrise Capital with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Please enjoy my monologue Sunrise Capital 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:

  • Brexit and systematic trading
  • Price distribution
  • Price action
  • Directional betting on a coin flip event
  • Preparing for black swan events
  • Are computers good or bad?
  • MAR ratio
  • Diversification

“Systems control the trading ideas. What they do is they give you a statistical edge in creating your trading ideas.” – Chris Stanton

“It’s a bad idea to get the insurance after the catastrophe.” – Jason Gerlach

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Ep. 463: Jack Schwager Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Jack Schwager
Jack Schwager

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My guest today is Jack Schwager, an American trader and author. He is the author of the Market Wizard series. His books have remained relevant over the past 25 years, and for many traders they are the best trading books on the shelves today.

The topic is his Market Wizard series.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

  • Trading legends
  • Futures markets
  • Equity markets
  • Gaining clients as a new trader

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Ep. 461: Robin Hanson Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Robin Hanson
Robin Hanson

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My guest today is Robin Hanson, an associate professor of economics at George Mason University and a research associate at the Future of Humanity Institute of Oxford University. He is known for his work on idea futures and markets, and he was involved in the creation of the Foresight Institute’s Foresight Exchange and DARPA’s FutureMAP project. He invented market scoring rules like LMSR (Logarithmic Market Scoring Rule) used by prediction markets such as Consensus Point (where Hanson is Chief Scientist), and has conducted research on signalling.

The topic is his book The Age of Em: Work, Love and Life when Robots Rule the Earth.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

  • Singularity
  • Robots taking over
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Slavery
  • Reversible computing
  • Virtual reality
  • Future of politics
  • Democracy in the future

“As an economist and a social scientist I often analyze the world as if nobody is in charge. As if it is not a matter of people voting on it, it is a matter of people doing lots of little things in local self interest that end up accumulating into the net effect that we all see.” – Robin Hanson

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Ep. 459: Tucker Max Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Tucker Max
Tucker Max

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My guest today is Tucker Max, an American author and public speaker. He chronicles his drinking and sexual encounters in the form of short stories on his website TuckerMax.com, which has received millions of visitors since Max launched it as the result of a bet in 2000.

The topic is writing a book.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio:

  • Marketing positioning
  • Selling to your audience
  • Finding your niche
  • Writing a book

“If you just want to make crap to sell crap then you are not for us.” – Tucker Max

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