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Michael Covel's Trend Following

Ep. 730: Is It Reasonable with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Michael Covel's Trend Following

Michael Covel

Investing, Business

4.6730 Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2019

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Please enjoy my monologue Is It Reasonable with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio. This episode may also include great outside guests from my archive.

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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/

You can watch a free video here: https://www.trendfollowing.com/video/

Can’t get enough of this episode? You can choose from my thousand plus episodes here: https://www.trendfollowing.com/podcast

My social media platforms:
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Hope you enjoy my never-ending podcast conversation!

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 Coval, not filtered, raw, honest.

0:27.4

That's my passion.

0:33.5

What a great quote that I'm about to read from the physicist Richard Feynman, no longer with us, but brilliance that never ends.

0:45.5

Quoting, have no respect whatsoever for authority.

0:50.2

Forget who said it and instead look what he starts with where he ends up and ask yourself,

0:57.7

is it reasonable?

0:59.4

End quote.

1:00.7

That is just flat out brilliant.

1:04.0

Have no respect whatsoever for authority.

1:06.7

Forget who said it and instead look what he starts with, where he ends up and ask yourself,

1:11.0

is it reasonable?

1:14.5

Now, imagine modern life right now with all the social media jokesters, the social media

1:23.0

talking heads, the cable TV talking heads. Is it reasonable? Is it reasonable? Now, I'm not asking

1:31.7

what fucking team you're on. I don't care what team you're on. I've got enough of that nonsense.

1:38.5

Is it reasonable? That's what really drives my thinking. because I don't care. I really don't care

1:46.7

about the partisan nonsense. What I want to figure out across my lifetime, across this podcast,

1:56.0

I want to look at human behavior. I want to look at trading. I want to look at decision making. I want to look at

2:02.5

markets. The psychology that surrounds it all. That is terribly fascinating. Why does one person

2:11.9

have success versus another? How does skill and luck come into play? Oh, you mean because that guy has a

2:21.2

billion dollars that must mean he is skillful? Not necessarily. And you're saying just because

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