Ep. 1371: The Performance Perspective with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
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Michael Covel
4.6 • 732 Ratings
🗓️ 29 December 2025
⏱️ 100 minutes
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Summary
Please enjoy my monologue The Performance Perspective 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!
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| 0:00.0 | My last episode for 2025 comes with a certain motivation, a certain inspiration, a certain |
| 0:08.6 | reminder that it's all in your head. |
| 0:12.1 | It's the six inches between your ears. |
| 0:15.7 | And with that in mind, two guests from my archives that will put you in the spirit of being ready to kick |
| 0:24.7 | some ass in 2026. I love all my guests. |
| 0:51.5 | But it's one of those ones where it's something from perhaps my youth |
| 0:55.2 | that I was always curious about. And I never expected to have a conversation with Michael |
| 1:01.4 | Jordan's personal trainer. In fact, my guest today, his very first pro athlete client as a trainer |
| 1:09.4 | was one Michael Jordan, the greatest basketball player who has |
| 1:14.4 | ever played. And I got to tell you, Tim has some fantastic lessons about life. Even how he made |
| 1:22.9 | his way to be at Michael Jordan's doorstep, that very first meeting. Wow, a little bit of luck, |
| 1:32.2 | but also a lot of taking a chance, putting himself out there. And that's just how he got to Jordan. |
| 1:41.0 | But those lessons he learned along the way, those winning lessons, he is here today |
| 1:46.8 | to share a little with all of us. Without any further delay, let's jump right into my conversation |
| 1:52.8 | today with Tim Grover. You've got about, I think looking at ages, you've got about four years on me. So I want to take you back in time. I'm going to go a little fishing here in the beginning. I want to take you back at time to 1982. |
| 2:24.0 | At that point in time, I was living 15 miles in Washington, D.C. I was living 15 miles in Washington, D.C. I'm going to go a little fishing here in the beginning. I want to take you back at time to 1982. At that point in time, I was living 15 miles in Washington, D.C. I was a rabid Georgetown fan. |
| 2:31.4 | My father went to Georgetown, and I sure as heck did not want that team in baby blue to win down at UNC. I loved watching that guy named Michael Jordan, but I did not want that team to win. |
| 2:37.8 | When I think back to the physical shape, |
| 2:41.0 | and I can still remember, you know, |
| 2:42.5 | look, he was a young guy, |
| 2:43.3 | he was a freshman in college, |
| 2:44.8 | but the Michael Jordan as a freshman in college |
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