Ep. 889: Steve Burns Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
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Michael Covel
4.6 • 732 Ratings
🗓️ 31 July 2020
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Steve Burns. He started investing in 1993, and trading his own accounts in 1995. It was love at first trade. A natural teacher with a gift for cutting through the bull and making complex ideas simple, Steve took to blogging and social media by founding New Trader U in 2011. New Trader U has attracted hundreds of thousands of visits a month, becoming the go-to resource for people who want to build a strong trading foundation. New Trader U offers an extensive blog resource with more than 1,000 original articles, as well as online courses and best-selling books covering a variety of topics.
The topic is Trend Following.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
- Covid-19 Pandemic
- Social Media Content
- Social Media Platforms and Target Audience
- Entrepreneurial Time
- Book Publisher
- Trend 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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Hope you enjoy my never-ending podcast conversation!
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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. |
| 0:33.5 | My guest today is Steve Burns. |
| 0:36.7 | This is Steve's fourth, fifth, sixth appearance on this show. |
| 0:42.1 | I don't know exactly. |
| 0:43.8 | Quite a few. |
| 0:45.3 | I think his first time was 2013. |
| 0:48.5 | One of those early people in the trading world that supported my effort to do this podcast |
| 0:53.4 | by coming on. So I'm always appreciative |
| 0:57.1 | to have those early guests back on and check in and see what's up. Steve is a trader and a trading |
| 1:03.7 | author. And he also happens to be, and we talk about this, an absolute expert in social media. |
| 1:12.9 | So even if you're not interested in trading or investing or whatever, |
| 1:16.8 | if you just want to get a little bit behind the scenes with somebody who has really mastered |
| 1:24.1 | the art of social media. Steve has the insights. |
| 1:28.9 | Without any further delay, let's jump right into my podcast episode today with Steve |
| 1:33.9 | Burns. |
| 1:35.1 | I hope you enjoy. Yeah, it's a crazy year. So let me ask the operative question right out of the gate for Steve Burns, for you, what has this year been most different? Is there any one thing that's different than other |
| 2:04.3 | people? Is there something about your life that's been really unique in this period? Tell me, tell me. |
| 2:08.8 | I sold my house in Nashville, Tennessee, you know, one of the top 25 cities in the U.S. for population, |
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