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Ep. 166: Harry Binswanger Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Posted on by Michael Covel
Harry Binswanger
Harry Binswanger

My guest today is Harry Binswanger, an American philosopher, writer, and Objectivist as a long-time associate of Ayn Rand.

The topic is his article on the value of 1%.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

  • Being inspired by the 1%, and why his article caused such an uproar
  • The nature of trade
  • Envy and jealousy
  • Understanding where entrepreneurs start and how wealth is created
  • The bailouts of 2008
  • Wal-Mart and its many innovations
  • Why money isn’t the root of all evil
  • Seeing Ayn Rand’s work woven into the cultural fabric
  • Statism
  • Navigators and the new health care laws
  • Why the wealthiest counties in America all surround Washington, DC
  • Why we’re at the “tipping point” in society today
  • Thoughts on Ron Paul vs. the principles of Ayn Rand

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Ep. 162: Tim Dyer Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Posted on by Michael Covel

My guest today is Tim Dyer, an RIA (Registered Investment Advisor) in La Jolla, CA. Dyer has also seen the brokerage side of the world too, shares insights regarding how these worlds work, and how clients navigate the waters of professional investing advice.

The topic is personal investments.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

  • What an RIA does for the average investor
  • The difference between trend following fund managers and the RIA world
  • The difference between hiring Merrill Lynch and hiring an independent RIA
  • Fiduciary suitability
  • Black swan protection
  • Benchmark issues
  • Warren Buffett declaring The Fed as history’s greatest hedge fund
  • How the Internet might open up the RIA world, and the value of human-based advice in the RIA world
  • The disingenuousness of focusing only on the benefits, and failing to see the risks
  • Why some might say it “feels like 1999” today

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Ep. 161: Michael Konik Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Posted on by Michael Covel
Michael Konik
Michael Konik

My guest today is Michael Konik, the author of many books of fiction, non-fiction, and essays. Konik has had a fantastic experience in the world of sports betting, and the parallels between his world and the trend following world are off the charts.

The topic is his book The Smart Money: How the World’s Best Sports Bettors Beat the Bookies Out of Millions.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

  • Similarities between Konik’s world and the Turtle story
  • Konik’s background and how he came into this world of rule-based betting
  • Some of the stories about “Big Daddy” Rick Matthews (fake name for a very high profile individual featured on 60 Minutes), the main character in Konik’s book and the most successful sports wagerer in the world
  • Position limits
  • Konik’s theater background and how it tied in to the experiment
  • Sports betting technique, the line, the Kelly Criteria, and “Big Daddy’s” own line
  • The “brain trust” and how “Big Daddy” led his operation
  • Point spreads
  • Looking for value rather than a favorite home team
  • The importance of a dispassionate outlook
  • The importance of knowing why you place a bet or trade
  • How the brain trust came up with a line better than the other lines out there
  • The importance of injuries in sports betting

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Ep. 159: History’s Greatest Hedge Fund with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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History’s Greatest Hedge Fund with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
History’s Greatest Hedge Fund with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Please enjoy my monologue History’s Greatest Hedge Fund with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio. This episode may also include great outside guests from my archive.

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Ep. 157: Mike Bellafiore Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Mike Bellafiore
Mike Bellafiore

My guest today is Mike Bellafiore, the co-founder of SMB Capital, a proprietary trading firm in New York City, and SMBU, its trader education company. Bellafiore also writes regularly for the globally popular SMBU blog, where he shares ideas on how to improve trading performance.

The topic is his book The Playbook: An Inside Look at How to Think Like a Professional Trader.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

  • Real rewards to being a successful trader
  • Passion in trading
  • Why professional traders fail
  • Parallels between trading and writing
  • Bellafiore’s history and definitions of “prop trading”
  • Trading short timeframes and intraday trading
  • The “prop desk”
  • Ups and downs in Bellafiore’s career
  • The early history of SMB Capital
  • Bellafiore’s early struggles with his father’s health concerns, his mother’s death, an SEC investigation, and how “The PlayBook” came out of it
  • The ten attributes of a great trader
  • Trading psychology and mindset
  • Personality types and short-term trading
  • Microscalping and swing trading
  • Expertise, flow, and mastery
  • Process vs. outcome
  • Entrepreneurship
  • The importance of coaching
  • The four ways to become great at anything

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Ep. 156: Patrick Boyle Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Patrick Boyle
Patrick Boyle

My guest today is Patrick Boyle, a fund manager, academic, and author. Boyle is the Founder of Palomar Capital Management, a UK-based hedge fund.

The topic is fund management.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

  • Directional trading
  • Timeframes in trading and short-term trading
  • Boyle’s background and how he came to be a founding partner of Palomar
  • Boyle’s time working with Victor Niederhoffer
  • Niederhoffer and his teaching lineage
  • David Harding and Bill Dunn
  • Boyle’s political stances, the Fed, and the SEC
  • Risk and running a directional fund
  • Performance correlation to the S&P and the trend following CTA’s
  • The big picture takeaways that Boyle learned under Niederhoffer
  • Correlations to people who have come out of Niederhoffer’s shop
  • Monroe Trout
  • Testing ideas
  • How quantitative analysis is different from technical analysis
  • The book publishing industry, and why all the secrets might not be in a $20 book
  • Where Palomar Fund Management is at today
  • Foundational advice to the budding fund manager
  • Libertarianism

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Ep. 150: Harry Dent Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Posted on by Michael Covel
Harry Dent
Harry Dent

My guest today is Harry Dent, a best-selling author and one of the most outspoken financial editors in America.  Using proprietary research, Harry developed a unique method for studying economies around the world, and uses his analysis to provide insights on what to expect in the future.

The topic is his book Demographic Trends in Real Estate.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

  • How demographics and consumer spending help to determine what might happen tomorrow
  • “The demographic clip”
  • “Die-ers vs. buyers”
  • What happens when a smaller generation follows a larger one
  • Zero interest rate policy and asset prices
  • Inflation
  • How the government keeps the bubble inflated
  • Comparisons to Japan
  • The forced spending of principal
  • Whether we’ve lost the ability to have a conversation about the morals of our current policies
  • Real estate speculation
  • How we’ve lost direction on the idea of “resets”
  • The boom-bust cycle
  • The importance of failure
  • “Coma” economies
  • Early retirement, and why you can’t retire at 65
  • Public employee pensions
  • Why we ultimately need a crisis to secure our future

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