Ep. 607: Robert Carver Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Michael Covel's Trend Following

Michael Covel

Investing, Business

4.6 • 730 Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2017

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is Robert Carver. He got his start in finance working at trend following firm AHL in 2001 during his final year of college. He was introduced to quantitative trading while at AHL and for the first time began thinking of finance in a systematic way. He later went back to AHL, working there from 2006-2013. It took a lot of research and digging for Robert to decipher which financial tools available to traders were appropriate for him. He knew he was not the only trader with this problem so he decided to write a book laying out what he had found through his research. Robert gives actionable tips and guidelines for others who may need help finding what trading instruments are right for them. Robert also wanted “Smart Portfolios” to be a book for the average investor. He wrote it in a way that is not over complicated. Any trader, new or professional, can pick it up and find it useful.

The topics are his books Systematic Trading: A unique new method for designing trading and investing systems and Smart Portfolios: A Practical Guide to Building and Maintaining Intelligent Investment Portfolios.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

Portfolio selection
Benchmarks
International investing
Fundamental trading
Warren Buffett trading
Expected average performance
Leveraging a portfolio
Luck vs. Skill
Venture capitalism

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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/

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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.
0:21.2	I am your host, Michael Covel.
0:24.0	Not filtered, raw, honest.
0:27.4	That's my passion.
0:33.1	My guest today is Robert Carver.
0:35.4	This is his second appearance on the show.
0:38.5	He came on the first time to support his first book, Systematic Trading.
0:44.1	Imagine that.
0:44.8	Imagine that I would want to have somebody on this show who writes about systematic trading.
0:50.6	His newest book, Smart Portfolios, a practical guide to building and maintaining
0:56.2	intelligent investment portfolios. This is one of those reference books like my own
1:03.7	newest edition of trend following. Yes, quick plug. This is one of those reference books
1:09.2	that you put on the shelf. One of those great,
1:13.4	just the facts, very practical reference guides that you can't go wrong with. Hey, Robert didn't
1:21.3	give me a penny to say that. I got the book here in front of me. It's a solid piece of work.
1:26.3	Check it out. Before you check it out,
1:29.2	and before you listen to Robert on this show, oh yes, I do have a request. Go to your friendly
1:35.4	neighborhood Amazon. And if you have not already grabbed a copy of my newest edition of
1:40.8	trend following, please do. And if you have already grabbed a copy, because
1:45.2	you know it's kind of cool, whether you went with the hardcover or whether you went with a 34-hour
1:49.5	audiobook, since you know it's kind of cool. And if you already have it, a family member, a friend,
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