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Michael Covel's Trend Following

Ep. 378: Embracing Failure with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Michael Covel's Trend Following

Michael Covel

Business, Investing

4.6732 Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2015

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Please enjoy my monologue Embracing Failure 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/

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

My social media platforms:
Twitter: @covel
Facebook: @trendfollowing
LinkedIn: @covel
Instagram: @mikecovel

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.

0:21.2

I am your host, Michael Covel.

0:24.0

Not filtered, raw, honest.

0:27.4

That's my passion.

0:33.8

Let me put it out there boldly and bluntly.

0:37.6

If you have never failed, you have never done a fucking thing in your life.

0:44.5

Absolutely guaranteed, period.

0:47.0

If you've never failed, you've done nothing.

0:51.9

Why all the anger this morning?

0:53.6

I wouldn't call it exactly anger, but why the...

0:56.0

In the last few weeks, I've seen many people, many situations come at me.

1:05.0

And it seems like from the trading perspective, maybe even the life perspective. We've created a fantasy. And the fantasy

1:13.8

goes something like this. Markets go up forever. I make consistent money every year. There's

1:22.2

somebody to take care of me when something goes wrong. There will never be failure because

1:27.1

there's caring everywhere.

1:29.6

The Federal Reserve cares about you.

1:31.2

The local politicians care about you.

1:32.9

The national politicians care about you.

1:35.3

Someone cares about you and you will never hit the ground.

1:39.8

Your face will never hit that sidewalk because somebody cares.

1:45.2

There's a warm embrace, a big hug.

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