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.

On a lark, January 2012, this podcast started, my trend following podcast.

Now in 2018, 700 episodes.

This episode right now that you're listening to is episode number 700. And to kind of keep my

chain of loyalty in place today on episode 700, for the first time and a long time, a new episode,

the traitor, Tom Basso.

Now, for those of you that are not familiar with Tom, you can easily find him featured across Jack Schwager's Market Wizards series, some of the best-selling Wall Street books ever.

You can also find Tom across my podcast, especially my first mega episode number 400,

which is literally four hours of prior Tom episodes on this podcast.

So as I was thinking about who I should have on for episode 700, I needed to reach back and give

props to somebody who helped me to lay the foundation for this podcast popularity.

And Tom has helped me tremendously with his appearances.

I'm not going to give away anything right now about where Tom and I will go in our conversation,

but I want to give one little PSA for Tom out of the gate. Now Tom is a retired trader,

but in this weird, connected social media world, he's kind of not retired now because he's

continued to connect with people over the years.

And now for the first time since he had his fund, he has launched a new website to specifically

interact with people like you and me. And we should all be so fortunate for Tom's efforts. Without further delay,

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