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Michael Covel's Trend Following

Ep. 390: Jim Simons Excerpt with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Michael Covel's Trend Following

Michael Covel

Business, Investing

4.6732 Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2015

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Please enjoy my monologue Jim Simons Excerpt 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

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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.

0:21.2

I am your host, Michael Covel, not filtered, raw, honest.

0:27.3

That's my passion.

0:33.5

Let me jump right in today.

0:36.4

With a little doubt and a little uncertainty.

0:40.3

More specifically, if you have that doubt, if you have that uncertainty, is it good? Is it bad?

0:49.3

If you don't have it, what does that mean?

0:59.9

One of my favorite people offers great insights.

1:05.4

The big difference between this side of the house, mine and the other, is this.

1:10.6

I am absolutely certain that I do not know, but that it might be possible to find out and that

1:11.4

doubt and skepticism and innovation and inquiry are the only means by which

1:18.5

wonder and beauty and all and symmetry will be discovered and beyond those

1:25.8

peaks we can yet see new more wonderful peaks will

1:29.8

rise whereas on the Wilson side of the house it is said we already have the

1:36.0

certainty we know that God created us and we even claim to know his mind and

1:42.9

what he wants us and I just invite you to open your minds to the possibility

1:48.0

that the skeptical and the inquiring and the doubtful

1:51.0

will be better than anything that calls itself faith.

1:54.0

There's anything that calls itself faith, calls itself certainty.

1:57.0

And for certainty, I think there is no place

2:00.0

in an institute of intellectual mentation and higher education.

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