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I am your host, Michael Covel, not filtered, raw, honest.

That's my passion.

Something a little different today, well, I don't know, not too different.

An excerpt from my recent appearance on the Top Traders Unplugged podcast.

Not the full thing, but I just picked a nice section to give you one of those trend-following

reminders about how I see the world.

I hope you enjoy this selection from Top Traders Unplugged.

I want to start by sharing a story with you, Mike. And I think you know the story to some

extent, but I'm not sure you know the full background because I seem to remember seeing

you tweeting about this. So it might be fun for you to know this. And this is from a friend who

works at a firm that both you and I know very well. And he wrote

me this just last night. And he said a couple of weeks ago, I answered a call that came into our

main telephone line. This was a very nice woman that told me that she was about to retire after

serving 30 years as a Border Patrol agent and her son had been bugging her for months to call us

about investing. We spoke for a long time, but she kept referring to her son and how he wouldn't

stop pressuring her to call us and to get his uncle to read these two books, which she referred to

as The Turtle and The Trend.

Her son sounded like a very smart guy, and so I asked if she could put him on the phone,

and I was surprised when she gave me a hard no.

I accepted her answer, but asked her to tell him that I think he sounds like a really

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