Ep. 267: Dennis Gartman Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
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Michael Covel
4.6 • 732 Ratings
🗓️ 22 August 2014
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Dennis Gartman, the editor and publisher of The Gartman Letter. Gartman appears on CNBC, ROB-TV and Bloomberg television, discussing commodities and the capital markets, and speaks before various associations and trade groups around the world.
The topic is outside the box market perspectives.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
- How Gartman first got started
- Chicago trading in the late 70's to the mid 80's
- Why you should never add to a losing position
- Buying strength and selling weakness
- Systems from Gartman's perspective, and keeping your systems simple
- Being patient with winning trades and impatient with losers
- Gartman's daily grind and process
- Mass psychology, efficient markets, and behavioral economics
- Gartman's thoughts on the market today and geopolitical events
- How we hear about geopolitical events today compared to the past
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.
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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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 Dennis Gartman. |
| 0:35.1 | Dennis is the editor and publisher of the Gartman letter. |
| 0:38.5 | Dennis appears everywhere. CNBCBC, Bloomberg, you name it. He's there. Discussing commodities, |
| 0:44.7 | capital markets. He's everywhere. The Gartman letter, very well known. Dennis, highly opinionated, |
| 0:52.0 | very, very, very strong opinions. However, I do like the fact that he thinks |
| 0:58.2 | in trends. He thinks about cutting his losses. I'm always, always eager to have people on my show |
| 1:05.9 | that have those views. I hope you enjoy. |
| 1:17.5 | Dennis Gartman. |
| 1:18.9 | Hey, Dennis, Mike Ovel. |
| 1:19.5 | How are you? |
| 1:20.6 | Good, Mike. |
| 1:21.1 | How are you? |
| 1:22.3 | Not too bad. |
| 1:23.9 | You're expecting me now, I assume. |
| 1:25.4 | Yep, absolutely. |
| 1:26.8 | Let me ask you a quick question. |
| 1:28.7 | What's the connection to Suffolk? What's the connection to Suffolk? |
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