Ep. 411: Jason Williams Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
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Michael Covel
4.6 • 732 Ratings
🗓️ 1 January 2016
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Jason Williams, M.D., a highly trained psychiatrist and the son of legendary trader Larry Williams, explains how to assess and measure your innate personality traits and align them with your trading style for more profitable trading on a more consistent basis.
The topic is his book The Mental Edge in Trading : Adapt Your Personality Traits and Control Your Emotions to Make Smarter Investments.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
- Using your personality to your advantage
- Psychology of trading
- What is the NEO PI-R test?
- Why anxiety is important in trading
- Commonalities among traders
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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, best-selling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings. |
| 0:20.7 | I am your host, Michael Covel. |
| 0:23.1 | Not filtered, raw, honest. |
| 0:26.4 | That's my passion. |
| 0:32.9 | I always love the unexpected way this show unfolds. |
| 0:40.3 | Dateline, June 2015. I'm in Beijing, China. |
| 0:46.8 | Me and about 1,500,000, somewhere in that neighborhood, Chinese investors, I was there to present. |
| 0:55.7 | Me and one other white guy there to present, Larry Williams, famed trader, Larry Williams. |
| 1:01.4 | It was my first time meeting Larry. |
| 1:03.0 | We had a chance to share dinner with our Chinese hosts. |
| 1:06.6 | And Larry brought up with me his son, Dr. Jason Williams, who has a book on the mental side of trading, the psychist side of things. |
| 1:17.3 | So Larry tells me this in June of 2015. I forget about it. |
| 1:22.7 | Many months unfold. I come across Jason Williams and his book. |
| 1:28.3 | And I'm thinking, wow, what great content. |
| 1:32.1 | Lightbulb moment, this is Larry's son. |
| 1:34.9 | This is what Larry was telling me about. |
| 1:37.5 | It had completely escaped me. |
| 1:39.3 | The dots were not connecting. |
| 1:40.8 | I did not see the connection. |
| 1:43.1 | I see the connection now. I hope you enjoy this |
| 1:46.2 | episode with Dr. Jason Williams. Speaking of Small World, the reason this conversation came to be, well, it should have come to be based on a conversation that I had with your father in Beijing in June because we were talking this type of content, the mental edge trading. |
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