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Michael Covel's Trend Following

Ep. 1387: Screw Your Brain on Tight with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Michael Covel's Trend Following

Michael Covel

Business, Investing

4.6732 Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2026

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Please enjoy my monologue Screw Your Brain on Tight 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

24 and 7, a significant number of perhaps, perhaps not, intelligent people are glued to the news,

0:12.4

glued to X, attempting to front run, whoever and whatever on the latest piece of war news. It sort of takes your breath away.

0:25.5

People are this greedy and this fucking stupid that they think they're going to get their home

0:32.0

run. Now, just like with the lottery, somebody will win, some lucky bet, and millions of other people

0:40.8

will think I should be playing too, just like at the casinos and just like at the lotteries.

0:48.5

I mean, we're living in this time where you can't say certain things. And the certain things are the truth that everyone knows.

1:01.7

Everyone knows the truth, but you're not allowed to say it. That's an interesting place to be.

1:10.3

At some point, that breaks. It ceases to work. At some point that breaks.

1:11.6

It ceases to work.

1:13.6

Now look, I'm going to get into it in a second.

1:16.6

From a trend following perspective, who cares?

1:20.6

Just run your system and let shit happen.

1:23.6

Well, that's true.

1:24.6

But if we're at one of those moments in time where good men need to step up,

1:31.4

good men need to lead, and good men need to speak the truth, look at all the trading profits,

1:37.7

if civilization implodes. And clearly, when you have a situation where multiple countries in the West are supporting

1:48.0

significant numbers of their population, two do nothing. One group pays for another group to do nothing,

1:57.0

for reasons not to find. Eventually, that breaks. And eventually those good men who are paying for those

2:05.8

men to do nothing, that system breaks. There's a snap. And the good men just say, this is done. We're out of

2:15.5

this. We're over. We're not playing anymore by this. We're not living in a world where you can't speak the truth. We're not believing the assorted social lies that have been set down over the last century. We're going to deal with the here and now. And we're going back to merit. Now, even if you get to that place,

2:36.0

you can still have greed and fear, you can still have bubbles. But we're headed to that kind of a

2:40.6

place fast. Does it happen in my lifetime? I sure as fuck hope so. Because living in a world

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