The This is Trend Following Radio, where great thinking comes alive.

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, not filtered, raw, honest. That's my passion.

You know, there's something noble about it, the idea of work.

I mean, I love work.

Work that is my passion.

Work that is my creativity, my soul.

Inspiring other people.

Waking up every day, excited, excited to do something new,

excited to offer a perspective.

Perhaps all my time and energy put into my craft can give somebody else a head start, a perspective that they might not otherwise have in what we call trend following, trend following trading. But it's tough. There's all kinds of forces

that we're up against.

And I really view this episode of my podcast, this monologue, as an emotional rescue, so to speak.

Especially since, I think, what, the Chinese stock market was down 6% today.

That's a pretty significant move for one day.

You do three or four days a 6% down and you got a little bit of a panic on your hands.

And frankly, I think anybody that didn't have a plan is already panicking. They've already reached for

a change of underwear, so to speak. Six percent down in one day. And imagine those folks that

maybe didn't really have a strategy, or perhaps over-leveraged.

But let me stay focused on the idea of the working man for a second, because it is a good thing,

but the working man title is bad for some people.

Because if you put yourself into a position where you're doing work that you don't like and you're showing up every day to clock in for the man and you're not into it,

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