Ep. 69: Frank Curzio Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
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Michael Covel
4.6 • 732 Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2012
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Frank Curzio, a recognized expert in the small cap sector, the voice behind S&A Investor Radio, as well as the editor of the Small Stock Specialist. Curzio has been featured on numerous radio and television programs, and wrote a newsletter for TheStreet.com before joining Stansberry.
The topic is markets and investments.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
- Curzio's background coming up in New York, the influence of his father, and his introduction into the world of trading
- Curzio's history with Jim Cramer, the info-tainment industry, and separating Cramer the analyst from Cramer the television personality
- Stansberry's wide reach in the financial world and Covel's introduction to them through an event at Jekyll Island
- How Curzio is still looking for big moves just like any trend following trader
- How the "magic hand" of the Fed can affect strategies in both the fundamental and trend following worlds
- Curzio's experiences with Jim Rogers, Jeff Macke, and Porter Stansberry
- The drastically different ways in which trends can be dissected
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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.
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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 Cobell. |
| 0:24.0 | Not filtered, raw, honest. |
| 0:27.3 | That's my passion. |
| 0:33.5 | Today on the show I have Frank Curzio, and Frank is with Stansberry and Associates. |
| 0:38.2 | He is the editor of the Small Stock Specialist. |
| 0:41.4 | It's an investment advisory that features stocks below $10. |
| 0:46.2 | Before joining Stansberry, Frank wrote a newsletter for the street.com, very similar. |
| 0:51.4 | He's been a guest everywhere, CNBCc's cuddlow report the whole nine yards |
| 0:55.4 | and uh you know he's for 15 plus years you know frank has had a lot of people following his work |
| 1:00.6 | uh frank thank you for joining me today thank you glad to be in the show michael so listen let's let's |
| 1:07.5 | let's uh i should i should give some background about for people that are not familiar with, and you're going to be able to explain a lot about yourself, but a little bit about Stansberry and just my, how I came into somewhat of the Stansberry world years ago. |
| 1:21.8 | So I was unfamiliar with Stansberry and this be Stansberry andates, Porter Stansberry's firm. And I got an |
| 1:29.1 | invite to come down and be a guest at an event they were holding a Jekyll Island. And to show you |
| 1:35.7 | how naive I was at the time, I did not even understand the significance of Jekyll Island. So I went |
| 1:42.2 | down, had a chance to meet Porter, all his folks. And it really was |
| 1:45.3 | kind of for me, my awakening to, or one of my awakenings to a very libertarian thought process. |
| 1:53.4 | Had a chance to meet Doug Casey there for the first time. And so just a really interesting |
| 1:58.3 | crew of folks that I've become friends with from Dave |
| 2:01.0 | Ifrigg, Steve Sugaroo, Brian Hunt, just, you know, a bunch of good guys. |
| 2:05.6 | I tell you the really interesting thing for people out there that are not familiar with |
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