Ep. 1389: F*** Dark Times with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
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Michael Covel
4.6 • 732 Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2026
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Please enjoy my monologue F*** Dark Times 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'm going to try something a little different today. |
| 0:02.6 | No guests. |
| 0:03.8 | No market talk. |
| 0:05.1 | No systems. |
| 0:05.7 | No performance numbers. |
| 0:07.4 | I want to talk about something that I think is pretty important right now. |
| 0:12.2 | Mindset. |
| 0:13.5 | Yeah, you've heard the word. |
| 0:15.1 | It's everywhere. |
| 0:16.3 | Motivational posters, Instagram, corporate retreat, slides, whatever. |
| 0:19.5 | It's everywhere. |
| 0:20.7 | But here's the thing. Here's why I'm doing this |
| 0:23.0 | episode today. Look around. I mean, really look around. Wars, multiple wars. Fuel prices, moving in ways that affects every single human being on this planet. |
| 0:37.6 | Inflation is killing savings. |
| 0:41.1 | That's money that people spend decades building up. |
| 0:44.6 | Governments are dysfunctional, and that's saying it nicely. |
| 0:49.3 | Some are evil. |
| 0:50.9 | The news cycle? Relentless firehose of catastrophe, programmed insanity. Social media algorithms |
| 0:59.1 | shows you the worst every day. And of course, there's the private battles, health, |
| 1:04.3 | relationships, careers, purpose. Nobody escapes this life without a real fight. But look, in the |
| 1:10.7 | middle of all that, that noise, that weight, that uncertainty, you have a choice. |
| 1:16.0 | Not about the war or gas or whatever is happening in Washington or London or Beijing. |
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