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Michael Covel's Trend Following

Ep. 1021: The Folly of Fundamentals with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Michael Covel's Trend Following

Michael Covel

Investing, Business

4.6730 Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2021

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Please enjoy my monologue The Folly of Fundamentals with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio. This episode may also include great outside guests from my archive.

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I’m MICHAEL COVEL, the host of TREND FOLLOWING RADIO, and I’m proud to have delivered 10+ million podcast listens since 2012. Investments, economics, psychology, politics, decision-making, human behavior, entrepreneurship and trend following are all passionately explored and debated on my show.

To start? I’d like to give you a great piece of advice you can use in your life and trading journey… cut your losses! You will find much more about that philosophy here: https://www.trendfollowing.com/trend/

You can watch a free video here: https://www.trendfollowing.com/video/

Can’t get enough of this episode? You can choose from my thousand plus episodes here: https://www.trendfollowing.com/podcast

My social media platforms:
Twitter: @covel
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LinkedIn: @covel
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Hope you enjoy my never-ending podcast conversation!

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is trend following radio where great thinking comes alive.

0:10.9

Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, bestselling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings.

0:21.2

I am your host, Michael Covel, not filtered, raw, honest.

0:27.4

That's my passion.

0:33.7

Someone said to me the other day, or they said it on Twitter or Facebook or something. They said,

0:39.7

go note the transformation of this podcast since inception until today. Now, I've not done that note.

0:49.6

I really don't care to listen to everything that I said in 2013, 14, 15, 16, etc. I generally know what I said.

0:58.5

I'm pretty consistent. I think what this person was getting at was perhaps my tone or my way

1:03.9

of interviewing people. And it was a compliment. He was saying that I had gotten better.

1:10.5

That's the fun thing about doing a podcast.

1:12.1

You do get better at talking, at interviewing, at listening to anyone.

1:18.6

I'm pretty well convinced that with almost no preparation, a few minutes,

1:24.8

I can get into a conversation with anyone on this planet and make it watchable,

1:31.4

make you want to listen. Not because I'm all that. Just practice. Practice, practice, practice.

1:39.8

Because everyone has an interesting story. Now, today I'm not doing an interview.

1:45.0

Today I'm going to do a little bit of a rant, a monologue.

1:47.6

But everyone does have an interesting story.

1:50.1

And so the key, the main job, is to pull out of them what's interesting.

1:56.7

Not just ask wrote questions that everyone asks, but to find out something deeper to get people moved.

2:05.5

That's exciting.

2:07.1

Get at what most people won't ask or don't know to ask.

2:12.3

And look, I got to tell you, if you're out there listening right now and you've never done anything like this, talk, get people to listen, try it, get involved, do something different.

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