Ep. 388: Logic Over Faith with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
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Michael Covel
4.6 • 732 Ratings
🗓️ 12 October 2015
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Please enjoy my monologue Logic Over Faith 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/
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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 Covel. |
| 0:24.0 | Not filtered, raw, honest. |
| 0:27.4 | That's my passion. |
| 0:33.1 | There's a great video easily found called The Four Horsemen. |
| 0:38.6 | It includes Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris, and Christopher Hitchens. |
| 0:45.7 | Hitchens is no longer with us, unfortunately. |
| 0:49.3 | What a great conversation. |
| 0:52.4 | Four very skeptical men sharing a two-hour conversation about faith versus reason. |
| 1:03.8 | Now, I really don't care what your faith is, whether you have a faith, whether you don't have a faith. |
| 1:13.1 | But in my world, the trading world, reason wins. |
| 1:19.2 | Logic wins. |
| 1:22.7 | There is no faith in the trading world. |
| 1:25.9 | If you have faith in the trading world, you are already done. |
| 1:29.6 | You are put at the little kids table. You don't get to sit with the adults. You're over to the side. |
| 1:37.7 | Perhaps getting like canned spaghetti or something. Little raviolis from a can. Chef Boyardee, yeah? |
| 1:44.7 | This is what you get. |
| 1:47.7 | No faith in trading. |
| 1:50.9 | But I love this two-hour conversation with these four men, all authors of brilliant books. |
| 1:57.8 | You might be saying to yourself, but Mike, you're saying these four men that present themselves |
| 2:03.5 | as atheists are all brilliant. I don't profess to have enough experience or enough insights in all |
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