Ep. 958: Donald Wieczorek Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
Michael Covel's Trend Following
Michael Covel
4.6 • 732 Ratings
🗓️ 29 March 2021
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Donald Wieczorek, the Founder and President of Purple Valley Capital, Inc. (PVC). He started his career in finance at JPMorgan as a summer analyst in their Equity Capital Markets Group while still an undergraduate at Williams College. Upon graduating Williams with a B.A. in Economics in 2008, Don officially launched PVC and began managing client capital professionally using his systematic risk management strategy.
The topic is Trend Following.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
- March 2020
- Track Record
- Bitcoin Generation
- Market Bubbles
- Inflation and Deflation
- Commodities
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.
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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. |
| 0:33.2 | My guest today might not be a well-known name in the trend following world, but this guy |
| 0:40.8 | swings for the fences. |
| 0:43.6 | He is absolutely the kind of track record you would have seen coming out of the 1970s and |
| 0:50.7 | 1980s. |
| 0:51.9 | The kind of track record that made Bill Dunn and John Henry famous, that made |
| 0:57.1 | rich Dennis famous. |
| 0:59.2 | My guest is a repeat guest, repeating from 2014. |
| 1:04.1 | Oh my gosh, seven years ago, Don Wysoric, Don's firm, Purple Valley Capital. |
| 1:11.1 | I've actually had a lot of people ask me to have Don on because what he's been doing in the last, |
| 1:18.2 | let's say, 14, 15 months in the trend following space is kind of like Babe Ruth on steroids. |
| 1:26.5 | It's kind of nutso. And steroids. It's kind of nutso. |
| 1:28.5 | And I say nuts so in a good way. |
| 1:31.4 | Without any further delay, let's jump right in and find out what this |
| 1:34.7 | Babe Ruth of Trent following has been up to since our last conversation seven years ago. |
| 1:41.9 | Oh, I can give you a hint. |
| 1:43.7 | When you hear about his performance, |
| 1:45.7 | you'll know what he's been up to. |
| 1:47.7 | Without any further delay, |
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