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🗓️ 11 March 2022
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Please enjoy my monologue Commodities Explode Up 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.
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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. |
| 0:33.6 | Man, if you blink, shit happens. |
| 0:38.0 | I mean, perhaps you were just one of those people that was sitting there wondering why the dot-com implosion back in 2000 to 2002. |
| 0:51.3 | Maybe you were just wondering, why did we recover from that so fast? |
| 0:56.1 | Then all of a sudden, you got your ass handed to you in 2008. |
| 1:01.9 | But then in early 2009, something happened. |
| 1:06.8 | Equity started levitating again. |
| 1:10.0 | Stocks started going to the moon. |
| 1:13.1 | The typical broker types, fundamental types, they started saying, oh, trend following, it's not working, it's not working. |
| 1:23.4 | They bring these people out of the woodwork literally every couple years. |
| 1:28.5 | They're just protecting their book. |
| 1:30.2 | I get it. |
| 1:31.5 | But for you, what the hell does that do for you? |
| 1:34.6 | So then roll forward to 2022 or even go back to the launch of COVID. |
| 1:41.2 | But especially now with Ukraine, how are you possibly sitting down and feeling comfortable |
| 1:49.8 | with the approach of buy and hold? Are you a masochist? Are you a lunatic? Do you like to stick |
| 1:58.6 | needles in your eyes? Or did you just trust the system? Now you're |
| 2:05.9 | in cognitive dissonance. You sure as hell can't admit that your strategy was to trust the system |
| 2:12.8 | because that would mean that maybe you weren't that bright or you weren't that learned or you didn't do the work or you were just fucking gambling. |
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