Ep. 495: Ted Parkhill Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Michael Covel's Trend Following

Michael Covel

Investing, Business

4.6 • 730 Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2016

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is Ted Parkhill. Ted has over 25 years of management experience in the investment business. He is a founding partner of systematic macro investment manager Incline Investment Management (IIM). He is also serves as an Assistant Professor of business at Sierra Nevada College in Incline Village, NV. Prior to IIM he was the director of marketing for Zazove Associates a multi-billion dollar quantitative convertible securities manager. He was a senior marketing executive at John W. Henry & Company one of the original Commodity Trading Advisors.

The topic is Trend Following.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

It is possible to consistently generate profitable returns through systematic trading
Markets are inefficient and therefore trends materialize
Trends last longer than people think
Prices reflect the sum of the knowledge of all market participants

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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	A big thank you to all of my listeners.
0:03.7	And if you would like to support this transmission, even more, and boost your trading account,
0:10.4	go to trendfollowing.com slash now.
0:16.6	And without any further delay, on to today's show.
0:25.6	Thank you. And without any further delay, on to today's show. This is Trend Following Radio, where great thinking comes alive.
0:31.2	Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, best-selling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings.
0:41.4	I am your host, Michael Covel, not filtered, raw, honest. That's my passion.
0:53.5	My guest today is Ted Parkhill. He is the chief executive officer of incline investment management.
1:01.8	Ted is all about systematic, disciplined, diversification.
1:07.8	A trend following perspective for sure.
1:12.1	And for those of you out there that sometimes say,
1:14.3	I don't have enough trend-following guests.
1:18.6	Ted brings a really interesting story.
1:21.5	Going back several decades,
1:24.1	I think you're going to find his insights,
1:26.2	his perspective are quite grounding.
1:29.3	Plus, he has the benefit of having a great story about his introduction into the world of trend following.
1:39.3	Learning from working with one of the legends, the all-time legends in the fund management space.
1:48.6	I hope you enjoy this conversation with Ted Parkhill.
2:00.4	Ted, take me back to some early stages. So right now, you're a fund manager, but you didn't start as a fund manager.
2:07.9	So I want to know where did this market fascination? Where did this start for you? What age? Give me an early experience. I don't know. Teens, 20s, what was the transition for you, or did you always imagine this when you were a 16-year-old kid?
2:23.4	That's a great place to start. Michael, I appreciate that because indeed it goes back that far. My background, as I have two brothers and my father was a broker of the three of us.
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