Ep. 877: Andrew Lo and Jon Gordon Interviews with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
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Michael Covel
4.6 • 732 Ratings
🗓️ 19 June 2020
⏱️ 91 minutes
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Summary
My guests today are Andrew Lo and Jon Gordon.
Andrew is a Charles E. and Susan T. Harris Professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management and director of the MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering. He is the author of Hedge Funds and the coauthor of A Non-Random Walk Down Wall Street and The Econometrics of Financial Markets (all Princeton).
Jon is an American author and speaker on the topics of leadership, culture, sales, and teamwork. He has worked with numerous athletic organizations, academic institutions, and corporations. He holds a Bachelor of Science in human ecology from Cornell University and a Master of Arts in teaching from Emory University.
The topic is Jon's book The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team with Positive Energy.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
- Market Data
- Human Behaviors
- Financial Market
- Market Crash
- Adaptive Market
- Hedge Funds Strategies
- Market Dynamics
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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| 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. |
| 0:24.0 | Not filtered, raw, honest. |
| 0:27.4 | That's my passion. |
| 0:33.4 | As we approach the weekend, let me jump in with a little bit of a mini best-of episode. |
| 0:42.0 | John Gordon, author, very motivational guy. |
| 0:47.1 | Andrew Lowe, MIT finance guy. |
| 0:51.4 | Yeah, they come from a different perspective, but I like their combination. I like grouping |
| 0:57.2 | them together today. Now, before we go jump in, I want to remind everybody, in this day and age |
| 1:06.2 | of anger, hostility, rage, victimhood, all these negative things, especially rolling across America, |
| 1:20.8 | my home country. These things, by and large, are in your mind. Now, of course, I just triggered probably 50% of the |
| 1:32.2 | population, but hear me out for a second. A lot of these things unfolding right now are not |
| 1:38.5 | going to change. I mean, not the way that you might imagine them changing. |
| 1:47.0 | So what do you have control over? |
| 1:50.6 | You got control over you. |
| 1:51.9 | And that's it. |
| 1:54.0 | You can't control your neighbor. |
| 1:56.1 | You can't make your neighbor like you. |
| 1:58.5 | Hell, you can't make your family like you, perhaps. |
| 2:02.3 | But you can wake up every day and you can control you. |
| 2:04.3 | You can do something with you. |
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