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Michael Covel's Trend Following

Ep. 468: Irrationality with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Michael Covel's Trend Following

Michael Covel

Business, Investing

4.6732 Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2016

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Please enjoy my monologue Irrationality 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

My social media platforms:
Twitter: @covel
Facebook: @trendfollowing
LinkedIn: @covel
Instagram: @mikecovel

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.

0:27.3

That's my passion.

0:33.1

I want to share some perspective on starting.

0:40.9

Starting anything. And I'm going to use as an example, my podcast.

0:43.4

This podcast was started in January of 2012.

0:48.4

On a lark, I just decided to do it.

0:52.5

Years earlier, I had put very short podcast episodes up on iTunes,

0:57.6

and then there was literally a five-year break.

1:01.0

And then in January 2012, I decided long form.

1:05.4

Of course, given my background, I went down the trading path.

1:08.9

Many trading guests.

1:11.3

And I went down that path all the way until early 2013.

1:15.3

In early 2013, I was hired by CLSA, a brokerage firm out of Hong Kong.

1:21.6

I traveled Asia for four months, essentially from February 2013 through May of 2013.

1:31.6

And of course, I've never really left Asia.

1:35.6

I have found it to be quite the experience and an interesting challenge for my podcast as well.

1:42.5

Primarily because of times.

1:44.1

I'm usually 11 hours plus East Coast America,

1:48.5

half the year 11 hours plus, half the year 12 hours plus.

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