Ep. 463: Jack Schwager Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
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Michael Covel
4.6 • 732 Ratings
🗓️ 1 July 2016
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Jack Schwager, an American trader and author. He is the author of the Market Wizard series. His books have remained relevant over the past 25 years, and for many traders they are the best trading books on the shelves today.
The topic is his Market Wizard series.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
- Trading legends
- Futures markets
- Equity markets
- Gaining clients as a new trader; Fundseeder
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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, bestselling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings. |
| 0:21.6 | I am your host, Michael Covell, not filtered, raw, honest. |
| 0:26.6 | That's my passion. |
| 0:33.6 | One of the cooler ideas that I've seen a long time for up-and-coming traders that want to get noticed. |
| 0:40.3 | Let's say you've got the track record. |
| 0:43.3 | You know, you're in Omaha or you're in Ames, Iowa. |
| 0:47.3 | You're in the middle of nowhere. |
| 0:49.3 | Or you're in the big city. You're in New York City. |
| 0:51.3 | It's still hard to get noticed. Jack Swagger, the best-selling |
| 0:57.6 | author, has a new venture, fund cedar, and Jack's venture kind of is a matchmaking type |
| 1:05.4 | idea. I'm not going to try and explain it all. I'm going to let Jack do that. |
| 1:11.7 | Our conversation today covers Fun Cedar Plus some other questions that I've had nagging at me about Jack's career, things that I just wanted to ask. |
| 1:21.5 | I hope you enjoy this conversation with Jack Schwager. |
| 1:32.0 | Thank you. with Jack Schwager. So Jack, Jack, one of the things that I think is really cool about you that you, not only coming |
| 1:36.8 | on my podcast very early on, which helped a lot, because that was where I go back and |
| 1:41.8 | speaking of equity curves, I go back and I look at my jump and listens, and it really started with your first episode on my show. |
| 1:47.8 | But one of the things that you told me that was so cool, and I think this is, you told me this |
| 1:51.1 | several years ago, we might have even talked about it on a prior episode, but you mentioned |
| 1:55.1 | that you really liked that I had Jack Horner on, the paleontologist. |
| 1:58.9 | You know, I think that was like, open the gates for me. |
| 2:01.6 | Like I'm going to go invite anybody on now, not anybody, but within, within reason. |
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