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Michael Covel's Trend Following

Ep. 277: A Million Words and Justifications with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Michael Covel's Trend Following

Michael Covel

Business, Investing

4.6732 Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2014

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Please enjoy my monologue A Million Words and Justifications 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/

You can watch a free video here: https://www.trendfollowing.com/video/

Can't get enough of this episode? You can choose from my thousand plus episodes here: https://www.trendfollowing.com/podcast

My social media platforms:
Twitter: @covel
Facebook: @trendfollowing
LinkedIn: @covel
Instagram: @mikecovel

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.

0:22.4

I am your host, Michael Covell, not filtered, raw, honest.

0:28.7

That's my passion.

0:36.1

I love that Bob Dylan lyric.

0:40.8

To me, what it really says is destination unknown.

0:48.0

You can't tell what's going to happen tomorrow.

0:50.9

You can't tell what's going to happen to people in your life.

0:55.6

You can just go with it.

0:58.0

You can just keep on keeping on.

1:03.0

But picking tomorrow, predicting tomorrow,

1:07.8

thinking that you actually have an explanation for how it is going to all unfold.

1:14.5

Come on. You're kidding yourself and you know it.

1:20.1

A lot of people are paid a lot of money to pretend that they think they can predict tomorrow.

1:30.4

But it is pretending, no doubt about it.

1:37.0

Before I get into a little bit more of that, though, let me give you the update.

1:47.8

The fun stuff, the interesting stuff, not just the making money or understanding behavioral economics, the philosophy of trend following, the philosophy

1:55.5

of living. Let me tell you about a first that happened to me the other day.

2:03.6

I'm in Saigon, a big city.

2:07.2

I'm right in the heart of what they call District 1.

2:11.9

I'm in a taxi, driving through a very commercial area.

2:16.1

The guy did not speak a lick of English, and that's okay.

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