Michael Covel's Trend Following

My guest today is Jerry Parker, the founder of Chesapeake Capital Corporation, a global investment manager headquartered in Richmond, Virginia, in 1988. He was an original TurtleTrader and was also the most successful TurtleTrader. Jerry brings to the table a straightforward way of breaking down how trend following works. The topic is Trend Following. In this episode of Trend Following Radio we di...

Please enjoy my monologue The Data Always Beats the Doctor with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio. This episode may also include great outside guests from my archive. --- 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 an...

My guest today is Scott Belsky, an American entrepreneur, author and early-stage investor best known for co-creating the online portfolio platform, Behance, Inc. He is author of several books with his latest being "The Messy Middle: Finding Your Way Through the Hardest and Most Crucial Part of Any Bold Venture." The topic is his book The Messy Middle: Finding Your Way Through the Hardest and Most...

My guest today is Ken Kocienda, a software engineer/designer at Apple for over fifteen years. After being introduced to the internet in 1994 he taught himself computer programming and made his way through a succession of dot-com-era startups, before landing a job at Apple in 2001. He worked on software teams responsible for creating the Safari web browser, iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. The topic...

My guest today is Terence C.M. Tse, an educator, speaker, advisor and commentator. He is a co-founder of Nexus FrontierTech and co-author of "Understanding How the Future Unfolds: Using Drive to Harness the Power of Today's Mega Trends." His mantra is "You can't predict the future, but you can be ready with a plan." Terence's book focuses on a term he calls "Presentcasting." He does not promote fo...

Please enjoy my monologue Bob Woodward Spins John Belushi with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio. This episode may also include great outside guests from my archive. --- 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...

My guest today is Gregory Aldrete, a professor of history and humanistic studies at the University of Wisconsin–Green Bay, where he has been teaching since 1995. His emphasis is on rhetoric and oratory, floods in Rome, ancient Greek and Roman history, and daily life in the Roman world. What was life like in ancient Roman times? How did people do things in the ancient Roman Empire? These questions...

Please enjoy my monologue Speed with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio. This episode may also include great outside guests from my archive. --- 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 p...

Please enjoy my monologue Safe is Not Really Safe with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio. This episode may also include great outside guests from my archive. --- 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 f...

My guest today is Bob Enck, the CEO of Equinox Funds and has overseen all operations at the fund since March of 2007. Prior to joining Equinox Funds, Bob worked for about 20 years with large, highly regulated health care organizations including Bristol-Myers Squibb as well as with more entrepreneurial venture capital funded organizations. The topic is Trend Following. In this episode of Trend Foll...

My guest today is Peter Leeson, an economics professor at George Mason University and is known for connecting rational choice theory with unusual domains. He looks at human behavior as a series of puzzles that are being solved by those involved. He focuses his studies on everything from bizarre rituals and superstitions to the behavior of Caribbean pirates. Peter's work has also been quoted as "Fr...

Please enjoy my monologue The Golf Terminator with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio. This episode may also include great outside guests from my archive. --- 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 follo...

My guest today is Lawrence Krauss, a theoretical physicist and cosmologist, professor at Arizona State University, director of its Origins Project and author of bestselling books: "The Physics of Star Trek" and "A Universe from Nothing." He is an advocate for science based data, public policy based on sound empirical data, and scientific skepticism. His goal is to reduce the influence of superstit...

Please enjoy my monologue The Journey to Find Inspiration with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio. This episode may also include great outside guests from my archive. --- 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...

My guest today is Gabriel Radvansky. He studies mental model theory for human memory and cognition. He strives to understand how people create, organize, store and retrieve mental models. Also, how younger and older adults differ on their use of mental models. Gabriel has done extensive research on how a person's environment changes ones memory. The topic is psychology. In this episode of Trend Fo...

Please enjoy my monologue Trend Following Deep Dive with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio. This episode may also include great outside guests from my archive. --- 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...

My guest today is Bradley Campbell, a sociologist whose research focuses on moral conflict — clashes of right and wrong and how they are handled. His work primarily looked at genocide arising from large-scale interethnic conflicts , but recently he has begun to examine smaller-scale conflicts on modern college campuses. Since about 2013 he has studied the phenomena of micro aggression complaints,...

Please enjoy my monologue Go Forward Move Ahead with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio. This episode may also include great outside guests from my archive. --- 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 fol...

My guest today is Jeffrey Miron, an economist, served as chairman of the Department of Economics at Boston University, currently teaches economics at Harvard University, and holds the position of Director of Economic Policy Studies at the Cato Institute. Jeffrey came to be a libertarian from an economics standpoint rather than philosophical, with Milton Friedman at the helm of his influencers. Jef...

Please enjoy my monologue A Peaceful Easy Feeling with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio. This episode may also include great outside guests from my archive. --- 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 f...

My guest today is Mark Blyth, a political scientist from Scotland and a professor of international political economy at Brown University. At Brown, Blyth additionally directs the William R. Rhodes Center for International Economics and Finance at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs. Blyth received a BA in political science from the University of Strathclyde in 1990. He went o...

Please enjoy my monologue Markets and Profit with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio. This episode may also include great outside guests from my archive. --- 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 follow...

My guest today is Jerry Muller, a professor of history at The Catholic University of America, where he has taught since 1984. His latest book is "The Tyranny of Metrics." Quantifying metrics can be a good thing, however, it can easily go too far and have great consequences. Jerry sees pitfalls of focusing too much on metrics everywhere – schools, hospitals, even venture capital. Children gear thei...

Please enjoy my monologue Trend Following Mega Fifth Edition with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio. This episode may also include great outside guests from my archive. --- 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...

My guest today is Christopher Ryan, best known for co-authoring "Sex at Dawn." The book deals with the evolution of monogamy in humans and human mating systems. In opposition to what the authors see as the "standard narrative" of human sexual evolution, they contend that having multiple sexual partners was common and accepted in the environment of evolutionary adaptedness. One of the more pivotal...