Ep. 1379: Trend Following Plus Fitness with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
Michael Covel's Trend Following
Michael Covel
4.6 • 732 Ratings
🗓️ 2 March 2026
⏱️ 108 minutes
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Summary
Please enjoy my monologue Trend Following Plus Fitness 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 | No intensity for me today. Two interviews, two classic ones to me, a big trend following one that |
| 0:08.0 | helped put this podcast on the map, and a big fitness one, which I really like. And unfortunately, |
| 0:16.5 | the guest on the fitness episode is no longer with us. He was quite the legend. |
| 0:22.3 | By trend following guests, the first one is a legend as well. |
| 0:26.6 | Without any further delay, two legends, trend following and fitness. |
| 0:32.3 | Please enjoy. |
| 0:33.7 | And if you can't make some money from this episode, if you can't fix your body from this episode, |
| 0:40.8 | you're toast, man, give up because these men bring the insights. I've had some interesting debates recently. |
| 1:01.9 | The content of the debate is not so important, but one of the reactions was really interesting. |
| 1:10.0 | I was ahead on the facts scorecard. |
| 1:14.6 | The person that was talking with me was not aware of all the facts. |
| 1:20.3 | And many times when the facts are not on your side, it devolves into an emotional attack. |
| 1:27.0 | Usually the emotional attack on me. |
| 1:29.3 | So if I'm just putting the facts out there, it can cause some people to get unnerved. |
| 1:34.8 | Long story short, this person said to me, well, you know, I don't want to be like you. |
| 1:39.2 | I don't want to be, you're going to be an angry old man. |
| 1:41.6 | You're not going to listen to anybody. |
| 1:42.9 | You're not going to be open to this and open to that and i thought it was a really interesting comeback you're going to be an angry |
| 1:49.2 | old man you're not going to listen to anyone you're going to be too set in your ways this was a person |
| 1:55.3 | that doesn't listen to my podcast i am so fortunate to bring on such a diversity of guests. |
| 2:03.6 | There's almost no way. |
| 2:05.6 | I mean, yeah, I've got my point of view and all that kind of fun stuff. |
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