Ep. 268: Gregory Morris Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
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Michael Covel
4.6 • 732 Ratings
🗓️ 25 August 2014
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Gregory Morris, the Sr. Vice President, Chief Technical Analyst, and Chairman of the Investment Committee for Stadion Money Management, LLC. He also serves as the chairman of the Station Trust Board. In this capacity Greg educates institutional and individual clients on the merits of technical analysis and why Stadion utilizes a technical rules-based model. Greg oversees the management of over $5.5 Billion in assets in six mutual funds, separate accounts, and retirement plans.
The topic is his book Investing with the Trend: A Rules-based Approach to Money Management.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
- Morris' history as a US Navy fighter pilot
- The checklist and how foundational it is to trading
- How Morris had his first exposure and understanding of technical analysis
- Russian Roulette and trading
- Risk vs. uncertainty
- Process and predictions
- Having a set of daily actions
- Learning lessons through failure
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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 Covel, not filtered, raw, honest. |
| 0:27.3 | That's my passion. |
| 0:33.1 | Today in the show I have Gregory Morris. |
| 0:35.7 | He is senior, vice president, chief technical analyst, |
| 0:38.8 | and chairman of the Investment Committee for Stadium Money Management LLC. He also has a new book |
| 0:45.1 | out this year, investing with the trend. Fun conversation, great background, top gun pilot. |
| 0:53.0 | Awesome stuff. I hope you enjoy. |
| 1:02.6 | Greg Morris. Hey Greg, Mike Covell. How are you? I'm doing great. How about you? |
| 1:08.0 | Not too bad. Not too bad. Where am I reaching me this fine day? |
| 1:11.6 | I'm in the mountains of North Georgia. |
| 1:14.2 | There you go. |
| 1:15.6 | How about you? Where are you? |
| 1:17.5 | I'm in Saigon today. |
| 1:19.8 | Oh, I was going to say, I thought you'd spend a lot of time in Asia, don't you? |
| 1:23.6 | Yeah, I've been over here last year and a half. I've spent a decent amount of time, a little back and forth between the States, but a nice change of pace. |
| 1:30.3 | I think you've spent some time over here a little bit, haven't you? |
| 1:33.3 | Yes, Saigon and Hanoe Hilton. |
| 1:39.3 | You know, I wasn't in Vietnamietnam as a fighter pilot i came along a few years too late |
| 1:49.9 | i knew a lot of those guys i tell you the thing that's shocked me about vietnam was the electrical |
| 1:58.5 | wires scraped from pole to pole it's kind of like new york city in the |
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