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

Posted on by Michael Covel
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. 462: Axe Capital with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Posted on by Michael Covel
Axe Capital with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
Axe Capital with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Please enjoy my monologue Axe Capital with Michael Covel on Trend Following. This episode may also include great outside guests from my archive.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio:

  • Baseball politics
  • Asking for permission
  • “Billions” (TV show)
  • Insider trading

“Why do we have to tell them what they need to hear, why can’t we tell them what they want to hear.” – Ron Burgandy, Anchorman II

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

Posted on by Michael Covel
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. 460: Billionaire Words with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Posted on by Michael Covel
Billionaire Words with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
Billionaire Words with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Please enjoy my monologue Billionaire Words 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:

  • Fundamental analysis
  • Bubbles
  • Zero Interest Rate Policy
  • Fed
  • Crony capitalism
  • Quantitative easing

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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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Ep 456: Josh Hawes Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Josh Hawes
Josh Hawes

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My guest today is Josh Hawes, the Risk Officer and Investment Manager of Hawking Alpha. He is a trend following trader now who started off at Goldman Sachs. Josh breaks apart the trading industry, highlighting many of the cons associated with the mutual fund space. Josh has always had a passion for math. He started looking at the performance of different funds within Goldman. As soon as he started to look at returns of some, he began to see a disconnect. They would judge themselves off “beating the index” but they were still losing massive amounts of money. They would also have access to CEO’s of top companies and still not be able to make money off of the information they would share. This is when he began to transition out of the company and turn to other forms of trading, not just long only.

The topic is Trend Following.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio:

  • Trading off fundamentals
  • Keeping up with the Jones’s
  • Smooth equity curve’s
  • Concept of an Index
  • Mutual fund industry
  • 10,000 hours
  • Arbitrage
  • High frequency trading

“Every trading system starts with an idea. The idea is a concept that describes some aspect of the way a particular market or all markets work.” – Hawking Alpha

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Ep. 453: Daniel Shapiro Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Dan Shapiro
Dan Shapiro

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My guest today is Daniel Shapiro, the founder and director of the Harvard International Negotiation Program, Daniel teaches a highly evaluated course on negotiation at Harvard College; instructs psychology interns at Harvard Medical School/McLean Hospital; and leads executive education sessions at the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, Harvard Kennedy School, and Harvard Medical School/McLean Hospital. He also has served on the faculty at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, and at the Sloan School of Management at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

The topic is his book Negotiating the Nonnegotiable.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

  • Negotiations
  • Self awareness
  • BATNA (Best Alternative To a Negotiated Agreement)
  • Five lures of the tribal mind
  • Dan Cook “The nothing fight”

“The problem isn’t about the words we are saying. It’s not about the actions we are doing. It is really about our mindset. The moment my mindset becomes Me vs. You in the conflict, Me vs. The other side, that is the problem. And the challenge is what causes us to move toward that Us vs. Them mindset and how do we breakout.” – Dan Shapiro

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