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.

That song, that band, that 60s band,

I've been told that's the reason the turtles of my turtle trader book, that's where the name is from.

Not just the Singapore turtle breeding farm story.

Who knows, just another interesting piece of turtle trivia.

And speaking of turtles, today I'm going to share

with you a couple chapters from my book, The Complete Turtle Trader, a couple of audiobook chapters,

the preface and chapter one, and hopefully if you like it, you might go pick up the whole thing.

This story is such a classic timeless story.

If you're not familiar with it, you'll be able to dig right in and get a real good feel

about what the story is all about in just a few seconds. But it's one of these great nature

versus nurture stories. Are you born with it or can you learn to do it?

And in this case, we're talking about trading.

So many timeless human experiences embedded in this story.

I'm sure decades from now people will be looking back and drawing inferences, drawing

lessons from the story of the turtle traders.

Just like they do, looking back almost a hundred

years ago to Jesse Livermore, it's the same thing. Good damn lessons that give confidence.

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