Ep. 1071: Kick Them in the Ass with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Michael Covel's Trend Following

Michael Covel

Investing, Business

4.6 • 730 Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2022

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Please enjoy my monologue Kick Them in the Ass with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio. This episode may also include great outside guests from my archive.

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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.

To start? I’d like to give you a great piece of advice you can use in your life and trading journey… cut your losses! You will find much more about that philosophy here: https://www.trendfollowing.com/trend/

You can watch a free video here: https://www.trendfollowing.com/video/

Can’t get enough of this episode? You can choose from my thousand plus episodes here: https://www.trendfollowing.com/podcast

My social media platforms:
Twitter: @covel
Facebook: @trendfollowing
LinkedIn: @covel
Instagram: @mikecovel

Hope you enjoy my never-ending podcast conversation!

Transcript

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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.
0:24.0	Not filtered, raw, honest.
0:27.4	That's my passion.
0:33.5	Ben Simmons is a professional basketball player.
0:37.5	I watched him last year with the 76ers, the Philly team, the Philly NBA team, choke big time.
0:45.4	A 6'10 guy who was scared to dunk the ball.
0:49.9	Coming into this season, this caused a big problem.
0:52.7	Simmons then refused to play for the team because the rest of the team and the coach criticized
0:57.3	him. He then declared that he had mental illness. Did not play for the entire season.
1:05.5	Halfway through the season, he got traded to the New Jersey Nets, I guess the Brooklyn Nets
1:09.9	these days, got traded to the Brooklyn
1:11.8	Nets and did not play. And now they just lost to the Boston Celtics in the first round of the
1:17.5	playoffs and Simmons did not play. Now at first they said Simmons was not playing because of the
1:24.2	prior excuse of mental illness. It was now a back injury.
1:28.5	But then they came back and they said, in the last day or two, it's mental illness again.
1:34.9	Why do I bring this up?
1:36.4	I just had a podcast guest last night talking about this very issue, mental illness.
1:43.2	Now, the episode's not yet live, but I wanted to bring it up
1:45.5	today because I thought there's an interesting parallel with trend following. Did you see that
1:52.3	coming? Ben Simmons, mental illness, and trend following. Trust me, there's a connection.
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