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Michael Covel's Trend Following

Ep. 751: Brent Huigens Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Michael Covel's Trend Following

Michael Covel

Investing, Business

4.6730 Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2019

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is Brent Huigens, an entrepreneur in the world of trading cards. He is founder and president of PWCC Marketplace, the largest seller of investment trading cards globally with more than $50 million in annual revenue. In 1998 Brent founded PWCC to provide buyers and sellers an efficient, honest and predictable marketplace. In 2012, he set his current engineering career aside to pursue the growth of PWCC full time.

The topic is trading.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

  • Card trading
  • eBay
  • Professional grading
  • Impact of the internet on trading cards
  • Auctions trading

Jump in!

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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/

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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 Covel, not filtered, raw, honest.

0:27.4

That's my passion.

0:33.3

My guest today is Brent Higgins.

0:37.1

A rather interesting tale on entrepreneurship, markets, trading in the card trading space.

0:47.8

Oh, you say, that's small time. Don't say that. Brent is trading and helping others to trade millions upon millions, upon millions of dollars of trading cards.

1:03.1

You know, at some point in time, especially Americans, we all collect cards. It is absolutely mind-blowing what has happened in the trading card market.

1:14.9

I'm so fortunate on this podcast to continue to have people with extraordinary ambition and

1:23.4

skill and vision to do their thing, their entrepreneurial thing, and come on here and tell

1:30.4

me about it. I hope you enjoy this conversation with Brent Higgins.

1:52.7

So Brent, right out of the gate, I want you to give my audience a definition of what you do.

2:03.7

If it's different than what I'm going to say, your guide, it's running an auction site for trading cards, for sports cards. Fair assessment? That is true as long as you add a whole bunch more. Okay, add them more really quick. We are historically an auction house,

2:08.4

but really what we are is a complete suite of services for investors who invest in the space.

2:12.5

And certainly buying at auction is part of it, buying it on the market, let's say. But there's a

2:17.1

whole suite of other things regarding strategy and storage and lending, et cetera, et cetera, that is part of it, buying it on the market, let's say. But there's a whole suite of

2:17.5

other things regarding strategy and storage and lending, et cetera, et cetera, that is part of our

2:21.5

brand rolling out this year. I'm going to get into all that in a second. But what I just wanted to

2:25.9

kind of establish so people know what you do big picture, because now I want to add some data to it.

2:31.3

I want to add some numbers to it. A guy that is helping people

2:35.6

to buy and sell trading cards, sports cards, 50 million annual revenue? Top line sales. Yep,

2:41.1

that was our final numbers for last year, 52 million. And in the sports card memorabilia world,

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