This is Trend Following Radio, where great thinking comes alive.

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

I am your host, Michael Covel.

Not filtered, raw, honest.

That's my passion.

First, about that intro music,

I don't care what your argument was or is.

Bond Scott was better.

Starting off today, I want to read a system.

I want to read a system. This is a system that I recently saw Hunter S. Thompson,

the famed writer who's no longer with us. I want to read his daily routine, his daily system.

And ponder this as you think about a trading system, here goes and i'll try and do it as fast as i can

24 hours with hunter thompson three p m rise 305 shivas with morning papers dunhill cigarette

345 cocaine 350 and we're talking 350 p.m.

Another glass of Shiva's Dunhill 405. First cup of coffee Dunhill 415 cocaine 416 orange juice.

Dunhill 430 cocaine 454 cocaine 504 cocaine, 511, coffee, Dunhills.

530, more ice in the Shivas, 545 cocaine, 6 p.m. grass to take the edge off.

7.05, Woody Creek Tavern for lunch.

Heineken, two margaritas, two cheeseburgers, two orders of fries, a plate of tomatoes,

coleslaw, a taco salad, a double order of onion rings,

carrot cake, ice cream, bean fritter, Dunhills, another Heineken, cocaine, and for the ride home,

a snow cone.

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