Ep. 814: Gregory Zuckerman Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Michael Covel

Investing, Business

4.6 • 730 Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is Gregory Zuckerman, the author of The Greatest Trade Ever and The Frackers, and is a Special Writer at the Wall Street Journal. At the Journal, Zuckerman writes about financial firms, personalities and trades, as well as hedge funds and other investing and business topics. He’s a three-time winner of the Gerald Loeb award, the highest honor in business journalism. Zuckerman also appears regularly on CNBC, Fox Business and other networks and radio stations around the globe.

The topic is his book The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

Gregory tells the gripping story of how a world-class mathematician and former code breaker mastered the market.

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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.
0:33.4	Quite lucky today to have a really interesting guest, the author of the new international bestseller, the man who solved the market how Jim Simons launched the Quant Revolution.
0:46.9	My guest today, Gregory Zuckerman, longtime Wall Street Journal reporter, decades at it, quite the investigative guy knows how to get behind the scenes and tell a great story.
1:00.3	So Jim Simons, I think Greg has put to bed any thought that there might be a better trader in the history of the planet than Simons.
1:10.5	The guy just mints money at his company
1:13.3	Renaissance Technologies. The book is great. I highly recommend it. Today I take Greg across Mr. Simon's
1:20.8	world and try to get to some of those insights that we can all use. We can all learn from, perhaps.
1:27.9	You know, this is one of the smartest guys ever.
1:30.1	I mean, just a brilliant mathematician.
1:32.6	I mean, that was before he even got to investing.
1:35.0	Then he got to investing, and he's dominated like that, like none other.
1:40.1	Without any further delay, without any further rambling for me,
1:43.0	let's jump right into my interview
1:44.5	with Gregory Zuckerman.
1:57.6	Listen, back in the day, I think somewhere, and I'm not asking you to recollect, but I think we might have exchanged emails 15 years ago or something, because I think you're a guy that has been in kind of this following these outsider quant traders for a long time.
2:13.6	You know all the names.
2:14.6	You know all the players.
2:15.9	I do.
2:16.9	I've been following this for a long time. I'm focused very much on the by side, being hedge funds, months and a while. Bill Gross and mutual funds of something interesting are Jeff Gunlack. But yeah, I'm very byside oriented. When quant trading is interesting, I'll focus on that. When long, short stuff is blowing up, then I'll move move to that but I'm a by side guy so yeah
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