Ep. 13: Mark Melin Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
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Michael Covel
4.6 • 732 Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2012
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Mark Melin, a managed futures expert, editor/writer for Opalesque, and author. Melin has become a defacto investigative reporter for the MF Global scandal.
The topic is managed futures.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
- Covel and Melin consider the MF Global story from the very beginning, back to the very basics, and discuss the political context, why the story isn't front page news, and how it might effect you in the long run.
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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 Coval. |
| 0:24.0 | Not filtered, raw, honest. |
| 0:27.4 | That's my passion. |
| 0:33.5 | So today on the show I have Mark Malin. |
| 0:36.6 | Mark is what I will affectionately call a managed futures expert. |
| 0:42.2 | He is also an editor-writer at Opelesque and has written three books. |
| 0:48.4 | Mark, welcome. |
| 0:50.5 | Thank you, Michael. |
| 0:51.3 | Good to see you again. |
| 0:52.5 | Absolutely. |
| 0:53.0 | The last time we connected, we were in San Diego and some hotel chatting. |
| 0:58.5 | I think, I don't know what we were talking about. |
| 0:59.8 | I think you were trying to tell me that long-term capital management was still a decent investing. |
| 1:06.4 | That was not a conversation. |
| 1:08.6 | We're talking about a short volatility strategy. |
| 1:11.3 | I'm not going to defend long-term capital management. |
| 1:14.7 | That's like defending John Corzine. |
| 1:16.8 | No, thank you. |
| 1:17.8 | Well, you know, you bring it right up. |
| 1:19.4 | So let me give my view on this. |
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