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 Covel, not filtered, raw, honest.

That's my passion.

Today on the show I have Courtney Smith, and Courtney has been a trader, a fund manager, an author,

and definitely check out his works on Amazon. His website is Courtneysmith.com. I think you're

going to enjoy this. Courtney and I cover a wide territory in the trading space and I think you'll be

intrigued at his trend following insights,

trend following lessons, how long he's been in this game, 40 plus years. And you'll also be

surprised that a lot of the people he's crossed paths with, quite a wide selection of folks. So

anyways, enjoy.

So Courtney, James Dufrain is a young guy at Longboard Asset Management, and that's how we ended up speaking today. Now, I've seen your name and I've seen your stuff over the

years, and so excuse me for taking so long to find you onto the podcast. But, you know,

for those that don't yet know of Courtney Smith, Courtney is, he's been in the industry. And I

know we can call that industry a lot of different things from managing money for clients to teaching, quite a bit of trend following experience.

That's a pretty good introduction, isn't it, Courtney?

Sounds good to me.

So anyways, but the reason we got connected is that James went ahead is a young guy and he uh basically what he sent me

was an email and he was he had trained with michael marcus who had famously trained at

secota and he told me though he said you know i've got somebody else in mind that you've got to reach

out to fantastic trader and uh said he will bring some really entertaining insights. So like I'm just sitting here

on this delightful Thursday morning ready for the entertainment, Courtney.

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