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Michael Covel's Trend Following

Ep. 108: Distraction v. Focus with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Michael Covel's Trend Following

Michael Covel

Business, Investing

4.6732 Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2013

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Please enjoy my monologue Distraction v. Focus 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
Facebook: @trendfollowing
LinkedIn: @covel
Instagram: @mikecovel

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.

0:12.2

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

0:22.4

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

0:28.7

That's my passion.

0:35.8

What a journey.

0:39.8

So let's see, since February 25th, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

0:50.3

And since March 4th, it was Hong Kong, Singapore, and Malaysia altogether.

0:58.6

And there was one stretch in there.

1:00.4

Look, I'm no cry for me, Argentina here.

1:03.2

There was one stretch in there of 23 presentations, anywhere from 60 to 90 minutes long, spread over three cities. That is easily the most

1:17.7

talking about trend following that I've ever done in person in that such short period of time.

1:26.8

Who was I talking to?

1:28.7

Well, a nice bank, CLSA was kind enough to put me in front of many, many, many,

1:37.5

institutional investors in all these fine cities.

1:41.4

I'd have to say, I do love all of the cities that I've been in.

1:45.5

Hong Kong's great. I mean, you can literally walk out your door in Hong Kong. And if you're in central Hong Kong, you can walk

1:50.4

out your door and everything's so vertical. The buildings are so tight together and everything's so

1:54.3

vertical. You can literally, I think you could live within 200 meters of where you're staying

2:00.1

and never go anywhere. Everything is there. It's

2:03.5

amazing how close everything is. Singapore is just perfect. I said on a blog post, it's sad that America

2:15.3

doesn't have the ability to build a Singapore.

2:19.8

I just go look at, even go look at the videos on YouTube and the pictures, something like

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