Ep. 312: Dan Hill Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Michael Covel's Trend Following

Michael Covel

Business, Investing

4.6 • 732 Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2015

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is Dan Hill, a recognized authority on the role of emotions in consumer and employee behavior. He runs Sensory Logic, a scientific insights firm that analyzes consumers' facial expressions to help companies better navigate consumers' emotional decision-making processes.

The topic is consumer and employee behavior.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

What a face coding expert is
The evolutionary aspect to face coding and the 43 muscles present in the face; emotional decision-making
How Hill found his way personally into this field
Why we feel before we think
Being hired by the Milwaukee Bucks
The importance of a smile in the heart of a champion
The difference between technical skill and the factors that Hill is looking for
The importance of having the right amount of happiness
Some of the limitations of facial coding
How technology is intertwined with facial coding
Why a personality like Richard Nixon may never be President again
The say/feel gap
Whether we can learn how to avoid negative facial expressions and emotions
A trading system based on the movement of human faces
Where we might see facial coding moving to in the future

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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.
0:24.0	Not filtered, raw, honest.
0:27.3	That's my passion.
0:33.1	Big market moves, the Swiss franc.
0:38.1	And boy, for those trend-fowing haters, they came out of the woodwork.
0:41.9	I just get the emails.
0:43.2	This must mean the end of trend following.
0:45.2	It's over.
0:47.1	The Swiss franc, they were all leveraged so much.
0:51.7	Instead of myself, my humble self, trying to address the issue of trend following losses on the Swiss franc,
1:00.8	not like some numbskull supposed hedge fund manager that lost $800 million.
1:06.0	I mean, what moronic strategy were you using to trade if you lost your entire phone on the Swiss franc?
1:15.6	Worse yet, not just the manager, not just the trader that had that strategy.
1:20.1	Who were the moronic clients that allowed their money to be traded that way?
1:25.7	Alas, that's a different story.
1:27.6	First, from David Harding, a clip from CNBC discussing the Swiss Frank move and 2014 performance
1:37.1	in the trend following world.
1:38.5	Stark difference in performance over the last 12 months between the hedge fund or the
1:42.1	traditional hedge fund industry and what we've seen as far as the managed futures industry is concerned, as you've said to me before,
1:47.6	the non-crystal ball owning sector of the financial markets. Given the debate right now,
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