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Michael Covel's Trend Following

Ep. 881: It's How Good You Want To Be with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Michael Covel's Trend Following

Michael Covel

Business, Investing

4.6732 Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2020

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Please enjoy my monologue It's How Good You Want To Be 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:
Twitter: @covel
Facebook: @trendfollowing
LinkedIn: @covel
Instagram: @mikecovel

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.

0:33.4

I'm holding two books in my hand by the author Paul Arden. The first one, it's not how good you are,

0:42.2

it's how good you want to be. And the second one, whatever you think, think the opposite. My understanding

0:50.5

is Paul was an advertising executive, very high up.

0:55.6

Someone can correct me if I'm wrong.

0:57.8

He's passed on, no longer here.

1:00.7

But these two little books, short and sweet, are a magic sab, a tonic, for a time of chaos.

1:10.4

A time where people are losing their minds.

1:14.6

I put up a website in 1996.

1:17.4

There was no social media.

1:19.9

There was no ability for everyone to broadcast whatever inane, insane thought was rolling around inside their head.

1:31.4

It was a time where you still had to prove yourself. You had to do the work. You had to show

1:38.5

that you had done the work. And then maybe you would get followers. Well, we're past that stage. We're now at the stage,

1:48.0

since so many people don't know what the hell they're talking about, that you get an audience.

1:54.1

Because if you don't know what you're talking about, guess what? There's a ton of people listening

1:59.5

that don't know what they're talking about.

2:01.8

So it's a marriage made in heaven.

2:04.5

A bunch of idiots grouped together with zero insight, zero knowledge,

2:09.1

in many cases, zero education, essentially feral human beings,

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