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Michael Covel's Trend Following

1,363 episodes - English - Latest episode: 30 days ago - ★★★★★ - 567 ratings

Bestselling author Michael Covel is the host of Trend Following Radio with 15+ million listens. Investments, economics, psychology, politics, decision-making, human behavior, entrepreneurship and trading -- all passionately explored and debated. Guests include Nobel Prize winners: Robert Aumann, Angus Deaton, Daniel Kahneman, Oliver Hart, Harry Markowitz & Vernon Smith. More guests: Jack Canfield, Howard Marks, James Altucher, Dan Ariely, Jean-Philippe Bouchaud, Kathleen Eisenhardt, Marc Faber, Tim Ferriss, Jason Fried, Gerd Gigerenzer, Larry Hite, Sally Hogshead, Ryan Holiday, Jack Horner, Ewan Kirk, Steven Kotler, Michael Mauboussin, Tucker Max, Barry Ritholtz, Jim Rogers, Jack Schwager, Ed Seykota, Philip Tetlock & Walter Williams. 1200+ episodes.

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Ep. 356: Talk About The Passion with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

June 22, 2015 02:00 - 24 minutes - 33.4 MB

Please enjoy my monologue Talk About The Passion 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 passionately explored and debated on my show. To start? I’d like to give y...

Ep. 355: Ed Seykota Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

June 19, 2015 02:00 - 55 minutes - 50.7 MB

My guest today is Ed Seykota, a commodities trader, who earned S.B. degrees in Electrical Engineering from MIT and Management from the MIT Sloan School of Management, both in 1969. In 1970 he pioneered Systems trading by using early punched card computers to test ideas on trading the markets. Originally profiled in the classic book ‘The Market Wizards’, Seykota has played a pivotal role in the growth of trend following trading for 40 years.  The topic is Trend Following. In this episode ...

Ep. 355: Ed Seykota Interview #2 with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

June 19, 2015 02:00 - 55 minutes - 50.7 MB

My guest today is Ed Seykota, a commodities trader, who earned S.B. degrees in Electrical Engineering from MIT and Management from the MIT Sloan School of Management, both in 1969. In 1970 he pioneered Systems trading by using early punched card computers to test ideas on trading the markets. Originally profiled in the classic book ‘The Market Wizards’, Seykota has played a pivotal role in the growth of trend following trading for 40 years.  The topic is Trend Following. In this episode ...

Ep. 354: The Babe Ruth Effect: Frequency v. Magnitude with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

June 15, 2015 02:00 - 20 minutes - 28.3 MB

Please enjoy my monologue The Babe Ruth Effect: Frequency v. Magnitude 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 passionately explored and debated on my show. To sta...

Ep. 353: Steve Burns Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

June 12, 2015 02:00 - 1 hour - 58.9 MB

My guest today is Steve Burns. He has been investing in the stock market for over 20 years. He is the author of seven books, ranks near the top 500 of all reviewers on Amazon.com, and is one of the sites top reviewers for books about trading. Additionally, Burns has single-handedly developed an exceptional Twitter following. The topic is trading. In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss: Self-publishing world How one goes about making choices in social media Getting over ...

Ep. 353: Steve Burns Interview #3 with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

June 12, 2015 02:00 - 1 hour - 58.9 MB

My guest today is Steve Burns. He has been investing in the stock market for over 20 years. He is the author of seven books, ranks near the top 500 of all reviewers on Amazon.com, and is one of the sites top reviewers for books about trading. Additionally, Burns has single-handedly developed an exceptional Twitter following. The topic is trading. In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss: Self-publishing world How one goes about making choices in social media Getting over ...

Ep. 352: Tim Larkin Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

June 08, 2015 02:00 - 50 minutes - 46.5 MB

My guest today is Tim Larkin, one of America’s leading Pro-Victim Rights and Personal Safety Advocates. He has had a 25 year career where he has trained over 10,000 clients in 52 countries in how to deal with imminent violence. The topics are his books How To Survive The Most Critical 5 Seconds Of Your Life and Survive The Unthinkable. In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss: Virginia Tech killings and why it is important to study violence Looking at sports injuries for th...

Ep. 351: Logical Fallacies and Zero Sum with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

June 05, 2015 02:00 - 24 minutes - 33.8 MB

Please enjoy my monologue Logical Fallacies and Zero Sum 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 passionately explored and debated on my show. To start? I’d like t...

Ep. 350: Michael Melissinos & Glenn Graham Interviews with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

June 01, 2015 02:00 - 1 hour - 68.1 MB

My guests today are Michael Melissinos and Glenn Graham. Michael has assumed research and trading responsibilities. He also works on his emotional and mental game with the help of his local Trading Tribe. Tribe helps him maintain discipline through tough performance periods, remain inventive and push the envelope of improving the firm’s investing and education strategy. He previously held positions at Rothstein Kass, Bear Stearns and J.P. Morgan.  Glenn's firm is Golden Point Capital. Gr...

Ep. 349: Donald MacKenzie Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

May 29, 2015 02:13 - 36 minutes - 34 MB

My guest today is Donald MacKenzie, a Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. He works on the sociology of markets, focusing on automated trading, the use of mathematical models, and the evaluation and trading of bonds. MacKenzie has worked in the past on topics ranging from the sociology of nuclear weapons to the meaning of proof in the context of computer systems critical to safety or security. The topic is his book An Engine, Not A Camera: How Financial Models S...

Ep. 348: Michael Covel Monologue and Interview on Trend Following Radio

May 25, 2015 02:00 - 31 minutes - 28.7 MB

Please enjoy my monologue Michael Covel Monologue and Interview 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 passionately explored and debated on my show. To start? I’d like to give you a...

Ep. 347: Kathryn Kaminski Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

May 22, 2015 02:00 - 23 minutes - 21.6 MB

My guest today is Kathryn Kaminski, the Director of Investment Strategies at Campbell and Co–the famed CTA started by Keith Campbell. Today, Kaminski outlines her new whitepaper, specifically diving into correlation among traders (CTAs). The topic is Trend Following. In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss: Correlation between fund managers and strategies The media’s misrepresentation of systematic strategies Diversification in the CTA and equity world Why one trend fo...

Ep. 347: Kathryn Kaminski Interview #2 with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

May 22, 2015 02:00 - 23 minutes - 21.7 MB

My guest today is Kathryn Kaminski, the Director of Investment Strategies at Campbell and Co–the famed CTA started by Keith Campbell. Today, Kaminski outlines her new whitepaper, specifically diving into correlation among traders (CTAs). The topic is Trend Following. In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss: Correlation between fund managers and strategies The media’s misrepresentation of systematic strategies Diversification in the CTA and equity world Why one trend fo...

Ep. 346: Gavin Serkin Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

May 18, 2015 02:00 - 51 minutes - 47.5 MB

My guest today is Gavin Serkin. He has been writing about developing economies for the better part of two decades as the Editor of Portfolio International magazine and more recently as the head of the emerging markets international desk at Bloomberg News in London. Serkin led Bloomberg’s coverage of the credit and derivatives markets from 2004 to 2008, winning the Society of American Business Editors & Writers’ Best in Business Award and the Society of Professional Journalists’ Deadline Club...

Ep. 345: Spyros Makridakis Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

May 15, 2015 02:00 - 36 minutes - 33.4 MB

My guest today is Spyros Makridakis, the Rector of the Neapolis University of Pafos NUP and an Emeritus Professor of Decision Sciences at INSEAD as well as the University of Piraeus and one of the world’s leading experts on forecasting, with many journal articles and books on the subject. He is famous as the organizer of the Makridakis Competitions, known in the forecasting literature as the M-Competitions. His calling is to poke holes in the notion that we can forecast with accuracy. The ...

Ep. 344: Martin Lueck Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

May 11, 2015 02:00 - 49 minutes - 45.8 MB

My guest today is Martin Lueck. Lueck holds an M.A. in Physics from Oxford University and currently is the Research Director and President of Aspect Capital. Lueck was originally with Adam, Harding and Lueck Limited (AHL), which he co-founded with Michael Adam and David Harding. At AHL, Martin initially focused on trading system research before taking on responsibility for the further development of the proprietary software language which provided the platform for all of AHL’s product engine...

Ep. 343: Ryan Holiday Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

May 08, 2015 02:00 - 31 minutes - 29.3 MB

My guest today is Ryan Holiday, an American author, writer, and marketer. He is the media strategist behind authors Tucker Max and Robert Greene, the former Director of Marketing for American Apparel and an editor-at-large for the New York Observer. The topic is writing a book. In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss: Always being in a research mindset Why some people don’t take advantage of standing on the shoulders of the giants that came before them To know where you’...

Ep. 343: Ryan Holiday Interview #3 with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

May 08, 2015 02:00 - 31 minutes - 29.4 MB

My guest today is Ryan Holiday, an American author, writer, and marketer. He is the media strategist behind authors Tucker Max and Robert Greene, the former Director of Marketing for American Apparel and an editor-at-large for the New York Observer. The topic is writing a book. In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss: Always being in a research mindset Why some people don’t take advantage of standing on the shoulders of the giants that came before them To know where you’...

Ep. 342: Victor Ricciardi Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

May 04, 2015 02:00 - 41 minutes - 38.4 MB

My guest today is Victor Ricciardi, an Assistant Professor of Financial Management at Goucher College. Professor Ricciardi is a leading expert on the academic literature and emerging research issues in behavioral finance. He is the editor of several eJournals distributed by the Social Science Research Network (SSRN). Ricciardi is also the co-editor of the book Investor Behavior: The Psychology of Financial Planning and Investing. The topic is behavioral finance. In this episode of Trend ...

Ep. 341: Michael Dever Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

May 01, 2015 02:00 - 47 minutes - 43.7 MB

My guest today is Michael Dever, an American businessman, futures trader, entrepreneur, and author. Dever is the founder and CEO of Brandywine Asset Management, Inc., an investment management firm founded in 1982. The topic is Trend Following. In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss: Multiple fundamentally based strategies in a systematic diversified portfolio that trades across more than one hundred global markets; strategy diversification The word “predictable” from Deve...

Ep. 341: Michael Dever Interview #3 with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

May 01, 2015 02:00 - 47 minutes - 43.8 MB

My guest today is Michael Dever, an American businessman, futures trader, entrepreneur, and author. Dever is the founder and CEO of Brandywine Asset Management, Inc., an investment management firm founded in 1982. The topic is his book Jackass Investing: Don’t Do It. Profit From It. In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss: Multiple fundamentally based strategies in a systematic diversified portfolio that trades across more than one hundred global markets; strategy diversific...

Ep. 340: Tim Ferriss Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

April 28, 2015 04:00 - 32 minutes - 29.8 MB

My guest today is Tim Ferriss, an author, blogger and motivational speaker known for his bestselling books The 4-Hour Workweek, The 4-Hour Body and The 4-Hour Chef. Ferriss is otherwise known as the guy who has revolutionized the idea of writing a book; he has engineered the process of a bestseller. The topic is his TV show The Tim Ferriss Experiment. In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss: Why the wrestler Dan Gable is part of Ferriss’ drive The “grinding” aspect of wres...

Ep. 339: Tim Price Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

April 27, 2015 02:00 - 39 minutes - 36 MB

My guest today is Tim Price, the London-based Director of Investment at PFP Wealth Management. Price has over 20 years of experience in both private client and institutional investment management. The topic is his blog The Price of Everything. In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss: Why the fundamentals are so ‘shocking’ FDR and the Great Depression Why government taking its hands out of the equation can be the solution in a recession or depression Why savers suffer i...

Ep. 339: Tim Price Interview #2 with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

April 27, 2015 02:00 - 39 minutes - 36 MB

My guest today is Tim Price, the London-based Director of Investment at PFP Wealth Management. Price has over 20 years of experience in both private client and institutional investment management. The topic is his blog The Price of Everything. In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss: Why the fundamentals are so ‘shocking’ FDR and the Great Depression Why government taking its hands out of the equation can be the solution in a recession or depression Why savers suffer i...

Ep. 338: K.D. Angle Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

April 24, 2015 02:00 - 54 minutes - 50.5 MB

My guest today is K.D. Angle. Angle began trading the futures markets in 1979 and developed his first rules-based trading strategy in 1984. In 1985 he created a newsletter called “The Timing Device” that specialized in making specific trade recommendations in the futures markets. After 1995, Angle retired the newsletter and went into asset management on a full time basis while investing the majority of his time and resources into researching and developing rules-based strategies. The topic...

Ep. 337: Michael Covel Speech and William Ury Interview on Trend Following Radio

April 20, 2015 02:00 - 1 hour - 65.2 MB

Please enjoy my monologue Michael Covel Speech and William Ury Interview 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 passionately explored and debated on my show. To start? I’d like to g...

Ep. 336: Colin Camerer Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

April 17, 2015 02:00 - 52 minutes - 48.4 MB

My guest today is Colin Camerer, an American behavioral economist and a Robert Kirby Professor of Behavioral Finance and Economics at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). Camerer’s research is on the interface between cognitive psychology and economics. This work seeks a better understanding of the psychological and neurobiological basis of decision-making in order to determine the validity of models of human economic behavior. His research uses mostly economics experiments—and ...

Ep. 335: The Bitcoin Episode with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

April 13, 2015 02:00 - 1 hour - 62.3 MB

Please enjoy my monologue The Bitcoin Episode 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 passionately explored and debated on my show. To start? I’d like to give you ...

Ep. 334: Correlation with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

April 10, 2015 02:00 - 19 minutes - 18 MB

Please enjoy my monologue Correlation 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 passionately explored and debated on my show. To start? I’d like to give you a great ...

Ep. 333: Gary Dayton Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

April 06, 2015 02:00 - 54 minutes - 49.9 MB

My guest today is Gary Dayton. Dayton stands apart as a trading psychologist in his use of the Mindfulness-Acceptance-Commitment (MAC) approach to peak performance, a model of human behavior based on mindfulness. Dayton is a psychologist and holds a doctorate in clinical psychology and a certificate in human performance/sport psychology from Rutgers University. He is President of Peak Psychology, Inc., a consulting firm that specializes in developing “peak” performance in traders. The topi...

Ep. 332: Brian Proctor Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

April 03, 2015 02:00 - 44 minutes - 40.5 MB

My guest today is Brian Proctor, an original TurtleTrader trained by Richard Dennis and Bill Eckhardt and today is a Managing Director at EMC Capital. He began his futures career in 1982, with experience at both the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and Chicago Board of Trade. Proctor was a participant in the renowned Turtle Program, and managed all trading operations at C&D Commodities through 2000. The topic is Trend Following. In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss: Proctor’s ...

Ep. 331: Douglas Emlen Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

March 30, 2015 02:00 - 1 hour - 61.4 MB

My guest today is Douglas Emlen, a professor at the University of Montana. He is the recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award in Science and Engineering from the Office of Science and Technology Policy at the White House. He has also earned multiple research awards from the National Science Foundation, including their five-year CAREER award. The topic is his book Animal Weapons: The Evolution of Battle. In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss: Taking our lessons from...

Ep. 330: Nigol Koulajian Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

March 27, 2015 02:00 - 45 minutes - 41.4 MB

My guest today is Nigol Koulajian, the Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Quest Partners LLC. He has been designing and trading short-term and long-term technical systems for over 22 years. The topic is Trend Following. In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss: Trend following performance in 2014 Volatility vs. skew Why having a good Sharpe Ratio is not the be-all-end-all The notion that alpha in the CTA world is not a result of skill Correlation between tail ris...

Ep. 330: Nigol Koulajian Interview #2 with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

March 27, 2015 02:00 - 45 minutes - 41.5 MB

My guest today is Nigol Koulajian, the Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Quest Partners LLC. He has been designing and trading short-term and long-term technical systems for over 22 years. The topic is Trend Following. In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss: Trend following performance in 2014 Volatility vs. skew Why having a good Sharpe Ratio is not the be-all-end-all The notion that alpha in the CTA world is not a result of skill Correlation between tail ris...

Ep. 329: Terrance Odean Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

March 23, 2015 02:00 - 46 minutes - 42.7 MB

My guest today is Terrance Odean, the Rudd Family Foundation Professor and Chair of the Finance Group at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley. Odean has extensively researched into the empirical data on active trading. He is very well-known for his work in behavioral finance and is once of the early pioneers. The topic is his extensive research into the empirical data on active trading. In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss: Odean describes his w...

Ep. 328: Robert Seawright Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

March 20, 2015 02:00 - 39 minutes - 36 MB

My guest today is Robert Seawright, the Chief Investment & Information Officer for Madison Avenue Securities, a boutique broker-dealer and investment advisory firm headquartered in San Diego, California. Seawright is also a columnist for Research magazine, a Contributing Editor at Portfolioist as well as a contributor to the Financial Times, The Big Picture, The Wall Street Journal’s MarketWatch, Pragmatic Capitalism, and ThinkAdvisor. The topic is his blog A New Kind Of Investment Outlook...

Ep. 327: Susan Polgar and Douglas Goldstein Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

March 16, 2015 02:00 - 49 minutes - 45.1 MB

My guests today are Susan Polgar and Douglas Goldstein. Susan Polgar, American chess grandmaster, and Douglas Goldstein, Certified Financial Planner, had the unique idea of looking at chess and applying the wisdom to investing. The topic is their book Rich As A King: How the Wisdom of Chess Can Make You a Grandmaster of Investing. In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss: Polgar’s early history as a four-year-old chess playing prodigy, and the trouble some older males had i...

Ep. 326: Kabir Sehgal Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

March 13, 2015 02:00 - 38 minutes - 35.9 MB

My guest today is Kabir Sehgal, a New York Times bestselling author and Grammy Award-winning producer. He is currently a vice president at JPMorgan Chase. Sehgal’s new book, Coined: The Rich Life of Money and How Its History Has Shaped Us, caught Covel’s eye. This is a subject layered in complexity and depth. Just about everything that goes on in our lives is decided by money and Sehgal digs into its story on a micro level. The topic is his book Coined: The Rich Life of Money and How Its H...

Ep. 325: Trend Following Attitude with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

March 09, 2015 02:00 - 46 minutes - 42.3 MB

Please enjoy my monologue Trend Following Attitude 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 passionately explored and debated on my show. To start? I’d like to give...

Ep. 324: David Stockman Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

March 06, 2015 03:00 - 35 minutes - 33 MB

My guest today is David Stockman. Those that follow business and politics in the United States will recognize his name. Stockman has been a businessman, a Congressman, and Director of the Office of Management and Budget under President Ronald Reagan. The topic is his book The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America. In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss: Woodrow Wilson piece How Wilson brought the US into World War I and how the pain of the 1930’s and ...

Ep. 323: Jerry Parker Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

March 02, 2015 03:00 - 45 minutes - 41.4 MB

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: Series of tweets written by Parker and use them as a jumping-off point for conversation. Topics include price action, “normal” market behavior Recent moves in the Swiss Franc Paying attention to entries as well as exits Why in...

Ep. 323: Jerry Parker Interview #4 with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

March 02, 2015 03:00 - 45 minutes - 41.5 MB

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: Series of tweets written by Parker and use them as a jumping-off point for conversation. Topics include price action, “normal” market behavior Recent moves in the Swiss Franc Paying attention to entries as well as exits Why in...

Ep. 322: Sophia Roosth Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

February 27, 2015 03:00 - 39 minutes - 36.5 MB

My guest today is Sophia Roosth, a Harvard professor that Covel first heard quoted on DNA privacy from Davos. Roosth’s research focuses on the twentieth and twenty-first century life sciences. Her first book, based on four years of ethnographic fieldwork, examines how the life sciences are changing at a moment when researchers build new biological systems in order to investigate how biology works. In this work, Roosth asks what happens to “life” as a conceptual category when experimentation ...

Ep. 321: Michael Lardon Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

February 23, 2015 03:00 - 49 minutes - 45.2 MB

My guest today is Michael Lardon, one of the premier mental performance coaches in the world, with clients in more than a dozen professional and Olympic sports. His athletes have won major golf championships, Olympic gold medals, Super Bowls and World Series titles, among other achievements. He is an Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of California San Diego and a Consulting Psychiatrist to the United States Olympic Teams at the Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista,...

Ep. 320: Mike Shell Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

February 20, 2015 03:00 - 33 minutes - 30.7 MB

Please enjoy Mike Shell Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio. --- 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 l...

Ep. 319: Salem Abraham Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

February 16, 2015 03:00 - 45 minutes - 41.9 MB

My guest today is Salem Abraham, the President of Abraham Trading Company with a 27-year track record. Salem graduated cum laude from the University of Notre Dame in December 1987 with a bachelor's degree in finance. He began his investing career as a futures trader while still in college, using quantitative models to trade global futures markets beginning in 1987. The topic is Trend Following. In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss: Living in Asia and Asian economics A m...

Ep. 318: Christopher Chabris Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

February 13, 2015 03:00 - 44 minutes - 41.2 MB

My guest today is Christopher Chabris, an American research psychologist, currently Associate Professor of Psychology and co-director of the Neuroscience Program at Union College in Schenectady, New York, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Neurology at Albany Medical College and a Research Affiliate at the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence. The topic is his book The Invisible Gorilla: How Our Intuitions Deceive Us. In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss: Witnesses, memory,...

Ep. 317: Michael Covel Monologue and Peter Shankman Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

February 09, 2015 03:00 - 30 minutes - 28.3 MB

Please enjoy my monologue Michael Covel Monologue and Peter Shankman Interview 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 passionately explored and debated on my show. ...

Ep. 316: Gary Antonacci Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

February 06, 2015 03:00 - 33 minutes - 30.8 MB

My guest today is Gary Antonacci. Antonacci focuses on two issues in the quant world: relative strength price momentum with trend following absolute momentum. He’s developed a strategy where he believes it’s best to combine both.  The topic is his book Dual Momentum Investing: An Innovative Strategy for Higher Returns with Lower Risk. In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss: Momentum vs. trend Relative strength momentum, cross sectional momentum, absolute momentum, and tim...

Ep. 315: Michael Mauboussin Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

February 02, 2015 03:00 - 35 minutes - 32.3 MB

My guest today is Michael Mauboussin, an investment strategist in the financial services industry, professor at the Columbia Graduate School of Business, and serves on the board of trustees at the Sante Fe Institute (an independent, nonprofit theoretical research institute). He is managing director and head of Global Financial Strategies at Credit Suisse, where he advises clients on valuation and portfolio positioning, capital markets theory, competitive strategy analysis, and decision makin...

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Jerry Parker
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Ryan Holiday
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Annie Duke
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Robin Hanson
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Chris Ducker
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Daniel Crosby
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David Burkus
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Jon Gordon
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Laurie Santos
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Nir Eyal
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Tim Larkin
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Tyler Cowen
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Alex Tabarrok
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Alison Gopnik
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Amy Webb
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Andy Molinsky
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Andy Puddicombe
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Barry Schwartz
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Bob Woodward
1 Episode
Brennan Dunn
1 Episode
Bruce Daisley
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Cal Newport
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Cass Sunstein
1 Episode
Chase Jarvis
1 Episode
Christopher Ryan
1 Episode
Chris Voss
1 Episode
Colin Camerer
1 Episode
Courtney Smith
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Daniel DiPiazza
1 Episode
Daniel Kahneman
1 Episode
Denise Shull
1 Episode
Didier Sornette
1 Episode
Dominic Frisby
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Donald Hoffman
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Eric Barker
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Evan Carmichael
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Gabriel Weinberg
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Guy Kawasaki
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Isaac Lidsky
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Jason Fried
1 Episode
Jeff Bezos
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Jeff Goins
1 Episode
Jenny Blake
1 Episode
Jim Simons
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jonathan davis
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Joseph Pine
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Laura Roeder
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Lewis Howes
1 Episode
Lori Gottlieb
1 Episode
Mark Manson
1 Episode
Matt Wallaert
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Michael Gervais
1 Episode
Michael Melissinos
1 Episode
Napoleon Hill
1 Episode
Neil Pasricha
1 Episode
Parag Khanna
1 Episode
Peter Gray
1 Episode
Peter Shankman
1 Episode
Richard Sheridan
1 Episode
Robert Glazer
1 Episode
Robert Greene
1 Episode
Robert Kurson
1 Episode
Rob Walling
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Ryan Moran
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Sally Hogshead
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scott belsky
1 Episode
Scott Galloway
1 Episode
Steven Pinker
1 Episode
T. Boone Pickens
1 Episode
Tero Isokauppila
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Tiffani Bova
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Tim Ferriss
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Tom Bilyeu
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