Ep. 32: The Moment of Now: Zen and the Art of Trend Trading with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
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Michael Covel
4.6 • 732 Ratings
🗓️ 11 July 2012
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Please enjoy my monologue The Moment of Now: Zen and the Art of Trend Trading 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/
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Can't get enough of this episode? You can choose from my thousand plus episodes here: https://www.trendfollowing.com/podcast
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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 |
| 0:17.7 | 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. |
| 0:36.4 | So there's this really cool website out there. |
| 0:40.2 | At least I think it's cool. |
| 0:43.8 | It's called zenhabits.net. |
| 0:48.0 | And this guy named Leo writes these posts there. |
| 0:51.4 | And there's nothing sexy about the website or anything. It's black and white. |
| 0:56.1 | Literally black and white. But a lot of what he says, if one allows themselves to think about |
| 1:03.5 | being an entrepreneur, think about being a trend following trader. And in this case, this particular |
| 1:08.9 | post that he made the other day, I think is right in the trend |
| 1:14.4 | following a sweet spot. |
| 1:17.2 | And the post is called the wisdom of allowing things to happen. |
| 1:21.6 | And he, you know, he makes the point that our Western societies, we're doers, we're creators. |
| 1:30.0 | It's our destiny. |
| 1:32.4 | And we make things. |
| 1:34.1 | We make things happen. |
| 1:37.1 | We don't just wait for things to happen. |
| 1:41.2 | And now, there's going to be some people out there. |
| 1:43.0 | They're going to pick a point here, and they're going to think they're finding an angle on me in my Achilles heel. |
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