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Michael Covel's Trend Following

Ep. 341: Michael Dever Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Michael Covel's Trend Following

Michael Covel

Business, Investing

4.6732 Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2015

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is Michael Dever, an American businessman, futures trader, entrepreneur, and author. Dever is the founder and CEO of Brandywine Asset Management, Inc., an investment management firm founded in 1982.

The topic is Trend Following.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

  • Multiple fundamentally based strategies in a systematic diversified portfolio that trades across more than one hundred global markets; strategy diversification
  • The word "predictable" from Dever's perspective; lack of correlation to other strategies
  • What Dever means by a "not purely quantitative" strategy
  • How and why this particular suite of strategies came to exist
  • The five strategy types
  • Crisis events and black swans
  • The weakness in the multiple strategy return driver set
  • The importance of speculators
  • The fixation on low volatility strategies
  • True portfolio diversification.

Jump in!

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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

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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.

0:10.9

Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, bestselling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings.

0:20.9

I am your host, Michael Cobell.

0:24.0

Not filtered, raw, honest.

0:27.4

That's my passion.

0:33.1

My podcast keeps getting diverse and diverse and diverse.

0:40.8

It is so much fun to just go out and find this wide assortment of guests.

0:50.8

To just reach out.

0:53.7

What's my process?

0:56.5

It's pretty much random.

0:58.2

I mean, of course, it's not random on some things.

1:00.2

It's not random to ask particular traders that I know of.

1:04.2

It's not random to ask Daniel Kahneman to appear in my podcast.

1:07.2

But there are many people that come on my show that are literally the result of me

1:11.8

reading an article and saying, wow, that person is really on target for their particular world.

1:20.5

And it's amazing how easy it is to find an email to just about everyone.

1:26.2

Now, I guess my little system of asking noteworthy people to appear works pretty well.

1:32.6

I'm not going to give away my secret sauce for how that happens.

1:37.6

But let's just say it's pretty easy to reach anyone.

1:42.0

If you've got something to say and you can possibly help them it's a win-win

1:48.8

situation right I win by having bright people come on my show they give insights people

1:54.6

listen they win by spreading their message my guest today is Mike Devere.

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