Ep. 1282: Tim Pickering Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Michael Covel's Trend Following

Michael Covel

Investing, Business

4.6 • 730 Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is Tim Pickering, founder, CIO and president of Auspice Capital Advisors. Tim leads strategic decision making and the vision for Auspice’s diverse suite of active and passive systematic trend following (CTA) and commodity strategies. Prior to forming Auspice, Tim was VP of Options Trading at Shell Trading North America. He is also the Chair of Finance Advisory Council of Haskayne School of Business.

The topic is Trend Following.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

Challenges in entrepreneurship
Trend following and replication
ETFs as a delivery mechanism
Risk management
Fee reduction and alpha generation
Performance comparison in various investment strategies

Jump in!

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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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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.
0:21.1	I am your host, Michael Covel, not filtered, raw, honest.
0:27.4	That's my passion.
0:33.5	My guest today is Tim Pickering.
0:35.8	He is the president, I believe CEO, the main guy behind
0:40.1	auspice capital, a trend following trader out of Canada. Tim was originally on this show in
0:46.1	2012. It's now 2024. What the hell? Time flies. A fun conversation. We dive into some detail that you might not be familiar
0:56.6	with, talking about more complicated strategies where people try to replicate trend following
1:03.8	traders. An interesting perspective. And without any further delay from me, let's jump right into
1:10.7	my conversation with
1:12.0	Tim Pickering.
1:21.1	How's life over there?
1:23.5	It's okay. No complaints. I've said this for years that if you took 25 Western guys age 25,
1:32.6	and you said, hey, you're going to Ho Chi Minh City. You're going to Sagan for a year. We'll pay your bills.
1:37.2	You've got to stay there for a year. Maybe the first seven or eight years I was here, I would say,
1:41.7	well, at the end of a year, 75% of the guys would not go
1:44.5	back. Wow. Yeah. Well, I've changed it recently. It's 100%. Would not go back. Now, of course,
1:52.3	if people go down the track, they get married kids, okay, you can't make those decisions. I'm talking
1:57.5	as a single guy, do not return 100% guaranteed.
2:04.0	It's just not even a question because we're men.
2:07.9	So.
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