Ep. 363: Blair Hull Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Michael Covel

Business, Investing

4.6 • 732 Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2015

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is Blair Hull. Hull founded Hull Investments, LLC in 1999 and currently serves as the firm's Chairman. He created Hull Tactical Asset Allocation, LLC, a registered investment advisor, in 2013. HTAA operates an actively managed ETF and utilizes advanced algorithms as well as macro and technical indicators to anticipate future market returns. Prior to launching Hull Tactical Asset Allocation, LLC, he was the founder of Hull Trading Company and served as that firm's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer.

The topics are blackjack and stock trading.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

The importance of having a strategy and sticking to it
Why money management and discipline are key to trading success
Objectivity vs. emotions in blackjack and stock trading
Choosing the right markers and variables
Consumption as a function of income and wealth
The future of market prediction and machine learning

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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.
0:21.1	I am your host, Michael Covel, not filtered, raw, honest.
0:27.3	That's my passion.
0:33.1	I guess today is Blair Hall.
0:35.5	He's an American businessman, trader, investor, politician, and has helped a great many people across his charities.
0:45.3	I first became aware of Blair through his New Market Wizards interview and Jack Schwager's classic book.
0:53.7	One of the most fantastic stories, for Blair truly did start in Blackjack, in card
1:02.5	counting, making a stake, and then moving on to trading.
1:07.5	And even to this day, blackjack is still core, the lessons, the experiences that he had early on, you can see to current day.
1:21.0	Our conversation today goes historical and brings things to current day, current day being the current strategy that Blair has developed.
1:31.5	I hope you enjoy this conversation with Blair Hall.
1:41.5	Let me first say, congratulations.
1:44.0	I don't think there's too many people on this planet.
1:46.6	And maybe you don't think it's that big of a deal now, but I don't think there's too many people on this planet that can say that they ran for political office and over 100,000 people voted for them.
1:56.0	That's still a big number.
1:58.9	I had a few people that voted for me.
2:00.8	That's true. Well, I didn't read in the polls with about three weeks to go and had a big number. I had a few people that voted for me. That's true.
2:01.6	Well, I didn't read in the polls with about three weeks to go.
2:04.3	I had a slight problem, but that's life.
2:06.5	Yeah.
2:06.7	And you don't regret in life what you did do.
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