Ep. 319: Salem Abraham Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
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Michael Covel
4.6 • 732 Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2015
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Salem Abraham, the President of Abraham Trading Company with a 27-year track record. Salem graduated cum laude from the University of Notre Dame in December 1987 with a bachelor's degree in finance. He began his investing career as a futures trader while still in college, using quantitative models to trade global futures markets beginning in 1987.
The topic is Trend Following.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
- Living in Asia and Asian economics
- A market lesson Abraham first learned in 1987
- The recent action of the Swiss Franc
- Artificially priced markets and the analogy of a dam
- Crude Oil as a trend
- Speculation at the core of Abraham's business and its effect on markets generally
- The effect of Abraham's grandfather on his work
- The influences on Abraham's thinking and business decisions
- Location independence
- The importance of a link to the outside world
- Avoiding disaster
- Being agnostic to the market
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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 | Today in the podcast, I have Salem Abraham. |
| 0:36.0 | He is the president of Abraham Trading Company |
| 0:38.6 | with a lot of trend following success. Over the years, Salem has been kind enough to offer me |
| 0:45.6 | fantastic insights. I'm very fortunate. I've been to his hometown on several occasions. Great |
| 0:51.8 | place to visit. Great steakhouse, just awesome. |
| 0:57.7 | He also appeared in my film, Broke, and is the last chapter in my book, The Complete Turtle Trader. |
| 1:06.5 | Today we cover some topical market moves, Swiss frank and oil among them. |
| 1:12.9 | I hope you enjoy this conversation with Salem, Abraham. |
| 1:22.4 | Hey, Michael, how are you? |
| 1:24.1 | Hey, Salem, how are you? |
| 1:25.9 | I'm doing well. Good morning. |
| 1:28.1 | Good afternoon to you. |
| 1:29.2 | What time is it over there? |
| 1:30.6 | I'm at 10.15 p.m. |
| 1:33.9 | Wow. |
| 1:34.9 | So almost good night. |
| 1:37.0 | Yeah, yeah. |
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