Ep. 20: Timothy Sykes Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
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Michael Covel
4.6 • 732 Ratings
🗓️ 30 May 2012
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Timothy Sykes, a penny stock trader and teacher who became a self-made millionaire by the age of 22 by trading $12,415 of bar mitzvah money. After becoming disenchanted with the hedge fund world, he established the Tim Sykes Trading Challenge to teach aspiring traders how to follow his trading strategies.
The topic is trading.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
- Certain systematic approaches that Sykes has used
- Sykes's early career entry into trading, studying the market his way and how tennis for him relates to trading
Jump in!
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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.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Trend Following Radio, where great thinking comes alive. |
| 0:10.9 | Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, bestselling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings. |
| 0:21.2 | I am your host, Michael Coval. |
| 0:24.0 | Not filtered, raw, honest. |
| 0:27.4 | That's my passion. |
| 0:33.3 | So this is going to be my controversial podcast episode. |
| 0:39.6 | I do consider him a friend. |
| 0:42.0 | And I met Tim Sykes back doing my film. |
| 0:47.4 | And I was putting together the cast for the film. |
| 0:50.6 | And this was, I guess, fall of 07, 2008. |
| 0:53.7 | I can't remember exactly. |
| 0:55.2 | And I saw this guy. |
| 0:57.1 | It was getting all this press up in New York City and he was causing all this ruckus. |
| 1:01.2 | And basically he was talking about government regulation and how government regulation |
| 1:08.5 | really wasn't doing such a good job. |
| 1:12.4 | And so I met with Tim, and I can remember as a park in Lower Manhattan, I think right near NYU. |
| 1:18.6 | And, you know, it was entirely insane. |
| 1:21.7 | We both had a fun time. |
| 1:23.1 | It was entirely insane. |
| 1:24.5 | I think we ended up having like a wrestling match or something in the middle of this park. |
| 1:28.9 | And, but we've kept in touch over the years. And I have to give Tim credit. |
| 1:34.8 | Tim reached out to me spring of last year, spring of 11, and he said, hey, you got to go to this event in Napa Valley. |
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