Ep. 45: Howard Getson Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
Michael Covel's Trend Following
Michael Covel
4.6 • 732 Ratings
🗓️ 14 August 2012
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Howard Getson, an entrepreneur and president & CEO of Capitalogix. Getson is an associate of Stendahl. Getson has a degree in psychology and philosophy from Duke University, an MBA and law degree from Northwestern, and has practiced corporate law. Getson is running a hedge fund today as well as a quant research shop, and he's in the business of systematically finding edges through all sorts of different approaches - not only trend following. Getson started his first business in the sixth grade, and he has always had the mind of an entrepreneur.
The topic is entrepreneurship.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
- Getson's legal background and how being a practicing corporate attorney influenced his trading and other business practices - as well as how a diverse background can help
- "E-gene", and how entrepreneurism is at the core of what both Getson and Covel practice
- How hunches can be dangerous
- Turning your hobby into your business
- Recognizing patterns
- The "three levels of mastery" - cognitive, emotional, and physical
- How minimum standards can define your life
- How systematic trading can define your minimum standards
- Controlling emotions through automation
- Importance of travel with a focus on Southeast Asia in particular and why this area of the world is so important to keep an eye on
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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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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. |
| 0:33.1 | So today on the show I have Howard Getson and Howard I would best describe as an entrepreneur. |
| 0:40.1 | He's a CEO of Capital Logics and for those that recall Dave Stendall who was on my show as an associate with Howard there at Capital Logics. |
| 0:49.0 | And Howard's got a really interesting background. |
| 0:50.8 | We'll talk about it today. |
| 0:57.5 | Duke University degree, psychology philosophy, |
| 1:06.6 | Northwestern degree, MBA, law degree, practice corporate law for a long time. And we connected in New York this spring when I was speaking at the Market Technicians Association, and we just |
| 1:11.9 | kind of sat down and started chatting and hit it off. And I think we were both, frankly, |
| 1:17.4 | even a non-trading discussion. We started talking about the world and how things interact. And we |
| 1:22.7 | had a really fun conversation about Singapore in terms of just how many Americans these days are not familiar |
| 1:31.1 | with what's going on on that side of the world. |
| 1:33.4 | Anyways, Howard, welcome. |
| 1:35.1 | Hi, it's great to be here. |
| 1:37.1 | I've loved reading your stuff. |
| 1:39.5 | And believe it or not, when I was getting started in the business, I ended up buying one of your |
| 1:45.2 | turtle trading courses a long, long time ago. |
| 1:47.9 | There you go. |
| 1:48.5 | There you go. |
| 1:49.2 | Helping the cause, right? |
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