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Marc Faber Podcast Coming

Posted on by Michael Covel

Marc Faber, editor & publisher of “The Gloom, Boom & Doom Report”, and myself March 20, 2014 in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Podcast up soon!

Marc Faber

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Ep. 221: Howard Lindzon Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Howard Lindzon
Howard Lindzon

My guest today is Howard Lindzon, a Canadian entrepreneur, author, financial analyst, technical analyst and angel investor. Lindzon manages a hedge fund, serves as managing partner of the holding company Social Leverage, limited partner at Knight’s Bridge Capital Partners, and is the co-founder of StockTwits. He’s also known for the satirical podcast Wallstrip.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

  • The commonalities between the angel investing world and trend following
  • Over-diversification
  • Diversification in private investments vs. stocks
  • How Lindzon got the entrepreneurial “bug”
  • Lindzon’s early career as a stockbroker
  • The beginnings of Wallstrip
  • Lindzon’s comedy influence
  • How Wallstrip led to the next four years of Lindzon’s investments
  • How Lindzon’s mistakes helped him grow as an investor
  • Lindzon’s experience with fraud committed by a business partner
  • Keeping your business drama-free
  • The issue of distraction
  • Lindzon on the birth of StockTwits
  • The investment that changed Lindzon’s financial life in 2005
  • The future of StockTwits as Lindzon sees it
  • Social leverage
  • The art of curation and verticalization
  • Thinking of the financial web as a social bank account

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Ep. 220: Victor Sperandeo Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Posted on by Michael Covel
Victor Sperandeo
Victor Sperandeo


My guest today is Victor Sperandeo, known as “Trader Vic”, a US trader, index developer, and financial commentator. He serves as the President and CEO of Alpha Financial Technologies, LLC (AFT), is a founding partner of EAM Partners L.P., and serves as the President and CEO of its general partner, EAM Corporation.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

  • Recent public policy directions
  • Trading against your public policy interests
  • Zero interest rate policy
  • Whether the S&P is a “bribe”
  • The Fed mandate to keep stocks from falling and to stop volatility
  • The wealth effect
  • Why the stock market going up is a very poor instrument to fix the economy
  • The trend towards socialism
  • Sperandeo’s experience working with George Soros
  • Sperandeo’s experience with the DTI index
  • lack swans and the effects of large, catastrophic events on the market; why the only way to protect yourself is extreme diversification; volatility balancing; and Sperandeo’s experience as a young man and how he came into the trading world

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Ep. 219: Carl Richards Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Carl Richards
Carl Richards

My guest today is Carl Richards, a Certified Financial Planner and creator of the Sketch Guy column, appearing weekly in The New York Times since 2010. Carl has also been featured on Marketplace Money, Oprah.com, and Forbes.com.

The topic is finance.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

  • Richards’ new radio venture
  • How Richards came to start The Behavior Gap
  • Outliers, and living your own bell curve
  • Risk on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis
  • The definition of radical self-awareness
  • Mindfulness and awareness as applied to our financial decisions
  • Habit, action, feeling, and thought
  • Simplicity and effectiveness
  • Government intervention in the markets
  • Quantitative easing
  • Buy and hold in Japan
  • Loss aversion and the pain of loss
  • Feeling loss more than the joy of gain

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Ep. 218: Sam Polk Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Sam Polk
Sam Polk

My guest today is Sam Polk, a former wall street banker who walked away after making millions. Today, Polk runs a non-profit to help the poor understand nutrition. However, his op-ed is definitely controversial.

The topic is his op-ed For The Love of Money. 

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

  • The intensity surrounding the reaction to Polk’s op-ed piece
  • Reactions from friends and colleagues about the article
  • Envy and jealousy in the Wall Street world
  • Polk’s background and life growing up
  • Filtering cultural messages
  • The line between individual responsibility and being part of a system
  • Crony capitalism
  • Power dynamics
  • The mythology of risk-taking in America
  • The solution for the investment banks out there
  • Polk’s non-profit which he runs today

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Stops. Just Stops.

Posted on by Michael Covel

Feedback in for a new podcast idea:

Podcast idea: How do you reconcile “Let your profits run” with “Pigs get slaughtered?”

Easy — a stop.

How can you move forward immediately to Trend Following profits? My books and my Flagship Course and Systems are trusted options by clients in 70+ countries.

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• Trend Following Podcast Guests
• Frequently Asked Questions
• Performance
• Research
• Markets to Trade
• Crisis Times
• Trading Technology
• About Us

Trend Following is for beginners, students and pros in all countries. This is not day trading 5-minute bars, prediction or analyzing fundamentals–it’s Trend Following.

Ep. 217: Risk, Reward and The Process with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Posted on by Michael Covel
Risk, Reward and The Process with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
Risk, Reward and The Process with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Please enjoy my monologue Risk, Reward and The Process with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio. This episode may also include great outside guests from my archive.

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