Ep. 375: Mark Sleeman Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
Michael Covel's Trend Following
Michael Covel
4.6 • 732 Ratings
🗓️ 28 August 2015
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Mark Sleeman, the managing director and founder of M.S. Capital Management Limited ("MS"). Mark lives in Auckland, New Zealand and holds an honours degree in Mechanical Engineering (1985) from Auckland university. With over 30 years of trading and research, Mark has extensive experience in trading system design and implementation. Mark is registered with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and is a member of the National Futures Association, as the principal and associated person of MS.
The topic is Trend Following.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
- The fallacy of "buy low, sell high"
- The psychology of trading
- Keeping your losses small
- The importance of maintaining a life
- Focusing on the strategy, not the instrument
- Understanding that patience has to be learned
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/
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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. |
| 0:21.1 | I am your host, Michael Cobell. |
| 0:24.0 | Not filtered, raw, honest. |
| 0:27.3 | That's my passion. |
| 0:33.1 | My guest today is Mark Sleeman of MS Capital Management. |
| 0:37.6 | Mark has been trading since the late 1980s. |
| 0:40.9 | He is a self-taught trend-following trader. |
| 0:44.0 | But he has also been wise enough to reach out to mentors along the way, David Drew's Ed Sikoda. |
| 0:52.1 | A classic trend following conversation. |
| 0:54.9 | I hope you enjoy. |
| 1:02.1 | My first question I have to ask, before being introduced, have we crossed paths somewhere, |
| 1:10.7 | online, somewhere. I just feel like we have or is it this is our |
| 1:14.6 | first time crossing paths this is our first time I've certainly heard of you and got some of your |
| 1:20.7 | books but I don't think we've ever talked or corresponded apart from the last couple of days |
| 1:25.7 | okay I was just curious. |
| 1:28.7 | I tell you, here I'm in Asia. |
| 1:31.4 | I'm not used to having somebody in front of me. |
| 1:36.4 | I mean, you're five hours in front of me. |
| 1:39.2 | You've got to be close to the dateline, if not on it. |
| 1:42.9 | We're in front of just about everyone i think but yeah |
| 1:45.6 | people sometimes find it hard to grasp especially when they're in there in the u.s and they're behind |
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