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Michael Covel's Trend Following

Ep. 1338: Trust, Action and Distraction with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Michael Covel's Trend Following

Michael Covel

Investing, Business

4.6730 Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Please enjoy my monologue Trust, Action and Distraction 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/

You can watch a free video here: https://www.trendfollowing.com/video/

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

I've been thinking about AI a lot recently, and my use of AI tools, my understanding of what

0:07.8

AI can do right now, and they are amazing tools.

0:12.0

There is no doubt.

0:14.1

But the use of AI brings up many issues.

0:18.1

Let me share.

0:19.5

Last night, I ended up at a steakhouse with three other men. We were all

0:24.6

just talking all kinds of issues. I'm Gen X. The three men were all millennial. So a little bit

0:31.2

younger than me. But all three, a very good understanding of AI. So we were all kind of going

0:37.3

deep on what has

0:38.9

happened and what will happen or what we might guess will happen. But AI brings up very quickly

0:45.9

the notion of information. And information is everywhere. Well, of course, this ultimately

0:52.6

leads to their curiosity on some of my work,

0:57.2

and my process, and my process was all pre-AI. In many instances, much of the work, the insights

1:06.5

that I assembled, was pre-internet, because so much of it was 94, 95, and end in 96,

1:15.8

and there wasn't really anything on the internet about trend following in 1996, except me.

1:24.0

I was the only one that was really putting trend following information out there.

1:28.7

And the only reason you're probably listening right now is because I actually was the only person putting information out there in 1996.

1:36.4

It was the start of a brand.

1:39.0

And I was trying to dig at that point in time.

1:42.0

If you're trying to dig about a subject pre-internet, pre-A.I., pre-phones,

1:48.8

there's pros and cons. And since this wasn't yesterday, it's not necessarily relevant because we're

1:56.7

never going back there again. But maybe it is relevant. Because when I was digging,

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