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Michael Covel's Trend Following

Ep. 1190: Steve Burns Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Michael Covel's Trend Following

Michael Covel

Business, Investing

4.6732 Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is Steve Burns, the author of seventeen books about the stock market. He is one of Amazon's top reviewers for books about trading and investing having read and reviewed several hundred books. He has been interviewed for the Wall Street Journal blog, Trader's Magazine and Chat with Traders. He has also been a contributor to Trader's Planet, Trader's Magazine and SeeitMarket.com. He lives in Nashville, TN with his wife and business partner, Holly, a Boston Terrier, Chihuahua, and a cat.

The topic is Trading.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

  • 'Trading is life and life is trading'
  • Trading principles
  • Capitalism and business
  • Political gains
  • Systematic trading

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.

0:33.5

My guest today is Steve Burns.

0:35.6

Steve has appeared on this podcast a lot. I enjoy talking to Steve.

0:39.8

He has written a ton of books. He has an amazing social media presence. I one day have to figure out

0:48.0

how he has achieved his social media presence. Of course, Steve's books all about trading. So it's an easy conversation

0:55.0

for both of us to catch up, see what's going on in America, compare some notes from Asia,

1:01.1

and just let it flow. I love these kinds of conversations with people that I've had on the podcast

1:07.6

so many times. Without any further delay, let's jump right into my conversation with Steve Burns.

1:23.2

I was going through your Twitter feed.

1:25.1

You must know this about yourself.

1:27.1

As a guy who has written a bunch of trading books, always in the trading space, one of the biggest social media followings in the trading space.

1:39.1

I'm sure there's some secret to your madness that you're not going to really reveal to us all.

1:43.2

You've got a pretty serious footprint out there. But I've noticed that you are, I don't know if it's a function

1:49.4

of age, wisdom experience. I find when I see your stuff these days, you have a lot more

1:56.5

life motivation and life hacks, links and insights these days in your work. You must know this

2:04.3

about yourself. My original interest, for the most part, it's always been human performance,

2:09.1

excellence, what separates people from others and who succeeds and who doesn't. Well, it's

2:14.9

amazing. I was thinking about starting other blogs and other websites

2:18.5

to cover more success principles. I come to realize that it all ties into trading, the psychology,

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