Ep. 273: Rande Howell Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
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Michael Covel
4.6 • 732 Ratings
🗓️ 12 September 2014
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Rande Howell. Howell has a therapeutic background combined with personal coaching in the fields of human potential and leadership. He has fifteen years of practice as a licensed professional counselor with a Masters in Counseling.
The topic is counseling.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
- What the performance mind is in regards to trading
- Trading, emotions, and uncertainty
- Why irrational pessimism is deadly in trading
- Emotional regulation and mastering emotions
- The blurry line between the casino and trading, particularly in Asia
- Euphoria vs. fear in a trading context
- Why what you're afraid of owns you
- Jungian archetypes
- The Myers-Briggs instrument
- Biological threat vs. psychological discomfort
- The mistake of using trading to measure your worth
- Getting your emotions right but your strategy wrong
- Why success in one endeavor doesn't necessarily mean success in trading
- The importance of patience
- The panther vs. the African lion
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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. |
| 0:33.6 | Sometimes new and experienced traitors only want to focus on the system. |
| 0:38.5 | The rules. |
| 0:39.6 | They forget the psychology. |
| 0:40.9 | They forget the mental. |
| 0:43.4 | My guest today, Randy Howe. |
| 0:45.9 | His work is a little different. |
| 0:48.2 | Randy has a therapeutic background combined with personal coaching in the fields of human potential and leadership. |
| 0:54.0 | 15 years of practice as a licensed professional counselor and a master's in counseling. |
| 1:00.6 | A really interesting conversation to get you in the spirit of the mind. |
| 1:05.6 | Because if your mind is messed up, I don't care what system you have. |
| 1:09.5 | You're going to fail. |
| 1:12.5 | I hope you enjoy this conversation. |
| 1:22.8 | What is the performance mind? |
| 1:27.6 | Well, that would depend on what domain you're performing in. Trading. |
| 1:33.6 | In trading, in trading, a performance mind is defined as literally being in the moment, |
| 1:37.0 | recognizing that you cannot control outcome. |
| 1:42.5 | You let go of outcome, and what you recognize that you can control is your performance in the moment of execution. |
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