This is Trend Following Radio, where great thinking comes alive.

Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, bestselling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings.

I am your host, Michael Coval.

Not filtered, raw, honest.

That's my passion.

Today I have another mega episode, a combination of four prior trend following episodes,

four of the most successful trend following traders alive today. I'm not going to give a big

introduction right now. You can do a little homework and you're going to figure out who they are

as I interview them.

But the four that follow you really might consider paying a little bit of attention to.

First, Ewing Kirk, then Jean-Philippe Boucho, then Martin Luke, and finally, Christopher Cruden.

I hope you enjoy this fantastic collection of

Trent following minds. First out of the gate, you and Kirk. If you'll indulge me for a moment I would love to go back in time a little bit.

And I would love for you to paint the picture because we're going to break apart your trading strategy, your management strategy.

I want to break all that apart.

But before that, you know, a guy with a PhD in mathematical physics going to Goldman Sachs, you weren't the guy

that was living and breathing trading when you got there, were you? Not at all, no. When I turned

up for my first interview at Goldman Sachs in 1992, I didn't actually know who Goldman Sachs were.

I thought that they were a bank, but apart from that, I wasn't entirely sure.

So, no, I didn't live a brief trading.

I didn't even live a brief quantitative finance.

Probably couldn't have discounted the cash flow.

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