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Michael Covel's Trend Following

Ep. 606: Jeff Bezos Is a Trend Follower on Trend Following Radio

Michael Covel's Trend Following

Michael Covel

Investing, Business

4.6730 Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2017

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Please enjoy my monologue Jeff Bezos Is a Trend Follower 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

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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.

0:21.3

I am your host, Michael Coval.

0:24.0

Not filtered, raw, honest.

0:27.4

That's my passion.

0:33.6

Now let me take you into something a little fun today.

0:36.8

As I said at the top of the show, I see this

0:39.1

as a big soup, these interconnected ideas and thoughts that you never would have expected

0:46.7

that Jeff Bezos operates as a trend following trader. But he sure as hell does. Absolutely 100%. He's got it in his mindset,

0:59.4

and he's not the only one. Venture capitalist, Hollywood financing, the MIT blackjack team,

1:08.9

Warren Buffett, oh yeah, go read Snowball. Go read about Warren Buffett and the Kelly

1:12.7

criteria. Warren knows what's up. Don't let the buy and hold fantasy of Warren Buffett and all

1:19.2

the bookstores lull you to sleep because that's a bunch of bullshit. Warren knows what's up.

1:24.6

Highly concentrated bets and being flexible.

1:28.8

Before I even get into the meat of this topic, however, I want to seed a thought in your head

1:35.6

because I've seen this in my world.

1:38.6

And this is an excerpt from Seth Godin's blog.

1:43.3

So he had a college professor years ago.

1:46.4

He worked as an engineering consultant.

1:49.1

There was a 40-story office tower in Boston with a serious problem.

1:53.6

An unsightly dark smudge was coming through the drywall.

1:57.2

Not good.

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