I just wanted to give you my feedback. I truly love the content of the podcast, it has strengthened my trading skills and allowed me research profitable trading strategies.
I have read all your books and I am a big fan of your work. Something you said in one of your recent podcasts was “make art, because life is short” and this really resonated with me. I want to build something special and I that is my current focus. How can I make a bigger impact on the world.
Anyway, my feedback is that while the content is great sometimes the interviewees are difficult to hear. I’m not sure if it is because you are using a Skype recorder or if you have another tool. Other podcasts are more crisp and easy to listen too.
I don’t know if a mixer would help but I wanted to at least let you know my thoughts. I appreciate your work and I’m not trying to be critical just providing feedback.
Hope all is well.
[Name]
Thanks!
My voice is easy to control. We keep that audio consistent. Unfortunately, guests can be problematic due to their microphone and or Skype connection.
Unfortunately, people are not clued in to worry about sound yet.
Do I turn away interviews with Nobel Prize winners cause of not perfect sound?
Love your podcast, but the [Name] interview was excruciatingly painful to sit through. He might be a great research guy, but watching paint dry is more satisfying than listening to him talk. Just my opinion, but he should stick to his investing and stay away from PR.
Listener: Great story about the smarmy motherfucker with a popular hipster podcast. That had to be [Name]. Love the pod and I love following the trend.
[Name] makes interesting observations and is definitely an intelligent guy. He is a charlatanical self-promoter, however, and after reading his books it is clear to me that he would sell anything to make a buck and I question his ethics and moral compass.
Keep up the great work!
Covel: Not [Name]! He was on my show.
Listener: I was wrong! Well, the culprit must not be on my radar. Love your books!
Michael: Episode 350: Great interviews. One thing mentioned in that was Dave Druz told Melissinos that the most important item was portfolio construction, i.e. selecting instruments that have tendency to trend, and trend often enough to produce meaningful juice. I agree with that. Any material you have from other people that to deeper into portfolio selection within trend following context, please send it my way. Also, I just heard that in 351 that you are heading to China. See if you could include voice clips from your talk over there and make it an episode.
Keep up the good work.
Thanks,
[Name]
Thanks. More insights on portfolios here, here and here.
My guests today are Susan Polgar and Douglas Goldstein.
Susan Polgar, American chess grandmaster, and Douglas Goldstein, Certified Financial Planner, had the unique idea of looking at chess and applying the wisdom to investing.
The topic is their book Rich As A King: How the Wisdom of Chess Can Make You a Grandmaster of Investing.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
Polgar’s early history as a four-year-old chess playing prodigy, and the trouble some older males had in accepting her; nurture vs. nature; the connection between the Turtle story and chess; the skills that chess provides outside of just playing the game; the importance of keeping your emotions in check; process vs. outcome; and thinking through the possibilities from a chess perspective.
Douglas Goldstein, Covel discusses how the idea came about to combine finance with chess in a book; tactics vs. strategy; and pattern recognition
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