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Michael Covel's Trend Following

Ep. 1154: Harris Kupperman Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Michael Covel's Trend Following

Michael Covel

Business, Investing

4.6732 Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is Harris Kupperman. He is the founder and CIO of Praetorian Capital, a hedge fund seeks out hysteria in every corner of the market, from bitcoin to natural gas. He is also also the Chairman and CEO of Mongolia Growth Group. His blog: adventuresincapitalism.com.

The topic is Trading.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

  • Ponzi scheme investing
  • Fundamental trading perspectives
  • Crypto miners
  • Forced mistakes
  • Positive expectancy as an investment strategy
  • Libertarianism

Jump in!

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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/

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

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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.

0:33.4

My guest today is Harris Cupperman.

0:35.6

He is the leader of Praetorian Capital, a fund.

0:39.9

Harris is event-driven. He will go where the opportunity is. He will trade just about anything,

0:46.9

as far as my understanding goes. In fact, he calls it a go-anywhere strategy. And for me,

0:53.1

that starts to sound a little trend following

0:55.3

esk, a little price action-esque. But I'm jumping ahead because Harris, like so many of the

1:01.8

traders that I talk to in this podcast, is not exactly a price action 100% trend following

1:07.9

trader. He's not. He's got a combination of styles that are meeting here.

1:14.1

There's some fundamental. There's some value. There's some price action. But he's had some fantastic

1:19.3

performance the last handful of years. A little bit of an Austrian mindset in there. His mindset is

1:25.8

worth paying attention to. Without any further delay from me,

1:29.5

let's jump right into my conversation with Harris Coverman.

1:41.6

So, Harris, I go through your background and I was unfamiliar with you, but I start to see

1:48.8

some of these headlines, event-driven, go where the opportunity is, even the word Ponzi,

1:55.9

willing to trade a Ponzi scheme.

1:57.8

Man, okay, for a guy that's written all these trend following books, they almost

2:01.5

did not have to prepare to talk to you because separated by 8,000 miles and separated by not

2:07.3

knowing each other, I already know there's going to be a lot of commonalities. So it makes for an

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