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Michael Covel's Trend Following

Ep. 129: Skepticism & Agnosticism with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Michael Covel's Trend Following

Michael Covel

Business, Investing

4.6732 Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2013

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Please enjoy my monologue Skepticism & Agnosticism 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/

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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.

0:12.2

Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, best-selling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings. I am your host, Michael Covell,

0:25.2

not filtered, raw, honest. That's my passion. I'm just a skeptical guy.

0:39.7

That's all.

0:41.1

I'm just a skeptical guy.

0:42.5

Just prove it to me.

0:44.8

Show me some proof.

0:47.1

Don't ask me to trust.

0:49.7

Don't just tell me to go on blind faith.

0:53.3

Show me something.

0:56.3

That's what I want.

1:00.0

And I'm not afraid to admit that's what I want.

1:05.7

The pack doesn't have me.

1:07.8

The herd doesn't have me.

1:10.6

If you are listening to me, you probably only

1:13.1

listen more than once because you relate to this idea, this concept of skepticism. Show me the

1:24.0

proof. Show me the proof.

1:36.8

Now, I'm going to play a clip, and as I cue it up here right now, I'm going to cue it.

1:38.7

Let's see. Let's cue it up.

1:47.1

And it's a clip from a guy who I actually met briefly, but he really didn't want to talk. I'm not even sure he used a language with me. I think he just grunted at me. And I say that, I say

1:54.8

that affectionately, because I really like the way he thinks. I like the way he talks. And that would be Hugh Hingery, who has become a fairly

2:05.0

noteworthy hedge fund manager in the last bunch of years. And what's interesting about him,

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