Michael Covel's Trend Following

My guest today is Van Tharp, Tharp runs the Van Tharp Institute and is the author of four acclaimed books published by McGraw Hill: Super Trader, Trade Your Way to Financial Freedom, Safe Strategies for Financial Freedom, and Financial Freedom Through Electronic Day Trading. He was also featured in Jack Schwager's Market Wizard's: Interviews with Great Traders. Van Tharp received his Ph. D. in psy...

My guest today is David Ryan. Ryan was famously first featured in Jack Schwager's "Market Wizards" book. Ryan has been the U.S. Investing Champion for 3 times and also worked for William O'Neil.   The topic is market wizards strategies. In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss: How Ryan got his start walking up to the front door of O'Neil's offices How Ryan would describe his approach t...

My guest today is Jerry Parker, an original Turtle, trained by Richard Dennis. However, since then he has very successfully run a managed money firm called Chesapeake Capital. The topic is Trend Following. In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss: Mean reversion trading What the definition of momentum trading is compared to trend following Why "good enough" is more rigorous than any met...

My guest today is Walter Williams, an American economist, commentator, and academic. He is the John M. Olin Distinguished Professor of Economics at George Mason University, as well as a syndicated columnist and author known for his libertarian views. The topics are liberty and economics. In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss: Why Williams calls himself a radical The morality of marke...

My guest today is John Mauldin, a noted financial expert, a New York Times best-selling author, a pioneering online commentator, and the publisher of one of the most widely read investment newsletters in the world. The topic is finance. In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss: Credit card rates and zero interest rate policy The improper use of credit Debt spirals Central bank policies...

My guest today is Jean-Philippe Bouchaud, the Chairman of the multi-strategy quantitative hedge fund Capital Fund Management (5B+ AUM) and co-supervisor of the research team. He is a well known authority in the field of Econophysics, co-author of "Theory of Financial Risks and Derivative Pricing", a Professor of École Polytechnique where he teaches Complex Systems and has his Ph. D in theoretical...

Please enjoy my monologue A Cult-Like Indoctrination 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 tren...

My guest today is Nir Eyal, an educator, author, and entrepreneur who is all about connecting psychology, technology, and business. The topic is his book Hooked: How To Build Habit Forming Products. In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss: How behavior and habits can be engineered, and how technology changes our behavior The moral implications of habit forming activities The difference...

My guest today is Brett Steenbarger, a Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, NY. The topic is Trend Following. In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss: What a "flow state" is, and why it's important How Steenbarger has seen flow connect to the trading world, and the importance of matching your level of difficu...

My guests today are Larry Hite and Alex Greyserman.  Hite is a hedge fund manager and is one of the forefathers of system trading. He was famously featured in the Market Wizards book. A few years ago he started ISAM with Stanley Fink. Greyserman has 25 years of experience in the CTA industry, and was originally hired by Larry Hite at Mint. Greyserman is Chief Scientist at ISAM (PhD in Statistics)....

My guest today is Sharon Moalem, a physician and author. Moalem's previous book, "Survival Of The Sickest", was a New York Times bestseller. The topic is his book Inheritance: How Our Genes Change Our Lives, and Our Lives Change Our Genes. In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss: Rafael Nadal as an example of digging deep in genetics How our bodies are constantly in a state of deconstr...

My guest today is Robin Hanson, an associate professor of economics at George Mason University and a research associate at the Future of Humanity Institute of Oxford University. The topic is outside the box economic perspectives. In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss: Prediction markets Vernon Smith and coming up with the "why" for booms and busts Dealing with a complex world based o...

My guest today is Harry Markowitz, the third Nobel Prize winner to appear on this podcast. Markowitz is an American economist who received the 1989 John von Neumann Theory Prize and the 1990 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. Markowitz is a professor of finance at the Rady School of Management at the University of California, San Diego. The topic is modern finance. In this episode of Trend...

My guest today is Ryan Holiday, director of marketing for American Apparel; media strategist for Tucker Max, Dov Charney, and others. The topic is his book The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph. In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss: Marcus Aurelius' philosophy and stoicism, and why it has such a hold on Holiday Distraction Why the impediment to act...

My guest today is Larry Doyle, a former JP Morgan banker. Larry embarked on his Wall Street career in 1983 as a mortgage-backed securities trader for The First Boston Corporation, and was involved in the growth and development of the secondary mortgage market from its near infancy. The topic is his book In Bed with Wall Street: How Bankers, Regulators and Politicians Conspire to Cripple Our Global...

My guest today is Tucker Max, an American author and public speaker. He chronicles his drinking and sexual encounters in the form of short stories on his website TuckerMax.com, which has received millions of visitors since Max launched it as the result of a bet in 2000. The topic is success. In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss: Covel and Max talk about their first meeting, and Max'...

Please enjoy my monologue Two Centuries of Trend Following 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 Mark Minervini, a technical analyst, acclaimed author, instructor, and independent trader. He has over 30 years of experience in finance, and was featured in Jack Schwager's Stock Market Wizards; Conversations with America's Top Stock Traders. The topic is his book Trade Like a Stock Market Wizard: How to Achieve Super Performance in Stocks in Any Market. In this episode of Trend...

My guest today is William Adams, a private trader and systems developer. He is based in Zurich and works with institutional clients. Adams has over 17 years of experience in financial markets. The topic is trading. In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss: If Adams views himself as a trend following trader Why the word futures can be problematic Broad diversification and diversifying on...

Please enjoy my monologue The Vocabulary of The Media 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 tre...

My guest today is Justin Fox, an American financial journalist, commentator, and writer born in Morristown, New Jersey. He is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist and former editorial director of the Harvard Business Review Group and business and economics columnist for Time magazine. The topic is his book The Myth Of The Rational Market: A History of Risk, Reward, and Delusion on Wall Street. In this ep...

Please enjoy my monologue The Whipsaw Guy 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...

My guest today is Thomas Gilovich, an American psychologist who is the Irene Blecker Rosenfeld Professor of Psychology at Cornell University. He has conducted research in social psychology, decision making, behavioral economics, and has written popular books on these subjects. The topic is behavioral economics. In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss: How his world dovetailed into mone...

My guest today is Tom Dorsey, the co-founder of Dorsey, Wright & Associates in 1987. Dorsey joined Nasdaq Global Information Services with Nasdaq's acquisition of his company in 2015. He has been a regular guest on Fox's "Cavuto on Business" and "Bulls & Bears" programs, and frequently speaks to audiences worldwide on topics related to the stock market, technical analysis, and Relative Strength in...

My guest today is Marc Faber, a Swiss investor based in Thailand. He is the publisher of the Gloom Boom & Doom Report newsletter and the director of Marc Faber Ltd, which acts as an investment advisor and fund manager. The topic is economics. In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss: Current state of Russia Changing geopolitics Faber's experience living through the Cold War The differen...