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Michael Covel's Trend Following

Ep. 241: A Cult-Like Indoctrination with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Michael Covel's Trend Following

Michael Covel

Business, Investing

4.6732 Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2014

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Please enjoy my monologue A Cult-Like Indoctrination 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

This is Trend Following Radio, where great thinking comes alive.

0:12.2

Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, best-selling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings. I am your host, Michael Covell,

0:25.6

not filtered, raw, honest. That's my passion. The fire rises.

0:40.8

Have you noticed with equity markets at all-time highs in USA,

0:47.3

there's starting to be those justifications again.

0:51.4

It kind of reminds me in 1999, that this time is different routine. And of course,

0:57.9

this time being different, their explanations are a little bit different. And what I notice now

1:02.7

is that there are many people out there that are just lining up and saying, what a great job

1:07.9

the government did. It's just fantastic.

1:16.0

Now, the specifics of the details are irrelevant. The fact that the S&P cratered 50% in 2000, 50% in 2008, 2009, that's irrelevant.

1:25.7

The issue is they fixed it.

1:28.7

They fixed it right now in the moment.

1:33.6

Now if in a couple years equity markets take another 50% hit, who cares?

1:39.7

But it's kind of like, hey, we killed your family.

1:43.3

The stock market's at all-time highs. Aren't you happy? Hey, we killed your family. The stock markets at all time highs.

1:45.1

Aren't you happy?

1:46.1

Hey, we raped your wife.

1:47.8

The stock markets at all time highs.

1:49.3

Aren't you happy?

1:50.1

Hey, we took away all of your interest income for the rest of your life.

1:55.4

And guess what?

1:56.5

Now you have to invest in social media stocks.

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