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🗓️ 19 April 2024
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Please enjoy my monologue Surfer Guy Redux 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/
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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. |
0:27.3 | That's my passion. |
0:33.4 | The great thing about the turtle trading experiment, the turtle trading program, and I wrote about |
0:40.9 | this in my book, The Complete Turtle Trader, was the concept of nurture beating nature, meaning |
0:48.2 | you could learn it and it was not some innate natural skill that you were born with. |
0:55.5 | Now, I have this debate and conversation with friends who are not traitors. |
1:01.9 | And they make the argument that not all groups of people are created equal. |
1:06.8 | I think we could all go down the rabbit hole if we desire and find that to be true. |
1:13.7 | That said, if you take a fairly consistent group, perhaps even homogenous, and you give them |
1:23.2 | trend following rules, and they stick to those rules. People of decent intelligence. Nurture is |
1:31.3 | going to trump nature. Meaning, ultimately, anyone can do it if they want to do it. That's life. And it applies to |
1:42.2 | so many damn disciplines beyond trading building on that idea let's talk location |
1:49.6 | if you want to do this trading thing where will you be what kind of lifestyle will you have |
1:56.1 | will you be sitting at a desk and a cube office job? |
2:01.9 | You could. |
2:04.7 | If that's your thing, you could absolutely do that. |
2:09.0 | But you can also go the complete opposite direction. |
2:14.4 | You can go off the grid, completely off the grid. |
2:21.1 | Leave the world behind except for your trading, except for your laptop, your signals, |
2:28.4 | and your ability to communicate with a broker. You don't need, quote, the world, in quote, |
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