Ep. 221: Howard Lindzon Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
Michael Covel's Trend Following
Michael Covel
4.6 • 732 Ratings
🗓️ 18 March 2014
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Howard Lindzon, a Canadian entrepreneur, author, financial analyst, technical analyst and angel investor. Lindzon manages a hedge fund, serves as managing partner of the holding company Social Leverage, limited partner at Knight's Bridge Capital Partners, and is the co-founder of StockTwits. He's also known for the satirical podcast Wallstrip.
The topic is entrepreneurship.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
- The commonalities between the angel investing world and trend following
- Over-diversification
- Diversification in private investments vs. stocks
- How Lindzon got the entrepreneurial "bug"
- Lindzon's early career as a stockbroker
- The beginnings of Wallstrip
- Lindzon's comedy influence
- How Wallstrip led to the next four years of Lindzon's investments
- How Lindzon's mistakes helped him grow as an investor
- Lindzon's experience with fraud committed by a business partner
- Keeping your business drama-free
- The issue of distraction
- Lindzon on the birth of StockTwits
- The investment that changed Lindzon's financial life in 2005
- The future of StockTwits as Lindzon sees it
- Social leverage
- The art of curation and verticalization
- Thinking of the financial web as a social bank account
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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Transcript
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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 Covel. |
| 0:24.0 | Not filtered, raw, honest. |
| 0:27.3 | That's my passion. |
| 0:32.5 | Today on the show I have Howard Linsen. |
| 0:35.5 | Howard of Wallstrip fame. |
| 0:38.4 | Howard of Stocktwits fame. |
| 0:40.9 | An angel investor, AVC, runs a hedge fund. |
| 0:45.6 | Has, as far as I know, has always had a fondness for trend following as well. |
| 0:50.5 | I hope you enjoy. |
| 1:05.3 | So yeah, I'm, I'm current, last year I came to Asia to give an untold number of speaking opportunities before mutual funds, hedge funds, sovereign wealth funds. |
| 1:09.3 | And I was all over, I went about eight or nine countries. |
| 1:13.2 | And honestly, I had the most fun in Vietnam. |
| 1:16.3 | So I stayed for the last six months of last year, came back to the States over the holidays, and then came back this year. |
| 1:23.9 | Nice. |
| 1:25.3 | Have you been to this area of the world? |
| 1:26.8 | I'm assuming you have. I have not. Really? I know. Nice. Have you been to this area of the world? I'm assuming you have. |
| 1:28.2 | I have not. |
| 1:29.4 | Really? |
| 1:30.5 | I know. |
| 1:32.3 | You know, given your VC pension, your angel pension, I have to tell you that the Vietnamese |
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