Ep. 1360: Greyserman Redux with Love with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Michael Covel's Trend Following

Michael Covel

Investing, Business

4.6 • 730 Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Please enjoy my monologue Greyserman Redux 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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Hope you enjoy my never-ending podcast conversation!

Transcript

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0:00.0	Reaching back into my archive today, a blast from the past, one of Larry Heights Associates,
0:07.2	who I met early on in my journey, Alex Gracerman. A very interesting guy, a very interesting
0:14.4	background, and a trend following mind. I hope you enjoy.
0:19.4	I hope you enjoy.
0:38.6	Today in the show I have Alex Gracerman. He holds the position of chief scientist at ISAM,
0:45.2	a specialist managed futures fund manager, 25 years of experience in the hedge fund industry.
0:49.4	Alex initially began working with Mint Investment Management.
0:54.1	The first managed futures advisor to manage more than a billion dollars meant started by Larry
0:56.7	Height. Larry Height of Market Wizards fame. Larry Height, somebody I consider a friend, a mentor,
1:04.5	somebody who has taught me a lot. Great conversation with Alex today. And please check out his new book, Trend Following with Managed Futures.
1:14.2	It is the definitive academic treatise on trend following.
1:20.5	Alex brings some great color today.
1:23.1	I hope you enjoy this conversation.
1:24.4	Thank you. hope you enjoy this conversation.
1:34.9	Are you still in God knows where country?
1:36.3	Oh, I love it.
1:36.8	I love it.
1:38.5	You know, well, let's just leave it like that.
1:41.5	I think that keeps the audience guessing God knows where country.
1:46.2	We'll circle back on the back end, maybe if we got some extra time and talk about that.
1:49.2	Hey, let me jump right in to the heart of the matter.
1:54.6	When I had you and Larry on in the spring, I think we were right in the middle of the weekly parade of 26-year-old Financial Times reporters writing about trend following is dead.
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