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.

Before I jump into my guest today, I have a request, a favor, one of those things that every

author hates doing. Go to Amazon and write a review of my newest edition of Trend Following.

That's the one with the Blue Cover 2017 edition. I want to see your feedback. Because if I don't ask the normal people

for feedback, what I get are the crazies, the absolute lunatics, the people that are so disconnected

they wouldn't know up from down and down from up. And for some reason another, maybe it's the

tone of the voice that I'm using right now,

for some reason or another,

I attract the really, really crazy lunatics.

They seem to like me.

It's some kind of like alternative perverse-like.

Instead of like trying to be my friend and maybe learn something from

my research, they get so blasted into a cognitive dissonance that I have upset their apple cart,

made their worldview go sour, and they implode internally. It's actually quite fun to watch. I've not stopped enjoying watching it

for over a decade. It's frankly a blast. But that said, look, Amazon is a process. I want people to

enjoy my work. I want people to see my work. And it helps for that to happen to go write a review. And if you like the book,

what the heck? It keeps me going. It keeps this podcast going. That's got to be one of the best

pitches ever to go write an Amazon review. And I just made it up on the fly. That's from the

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