Ep. 1311: Martin Bergin Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Michael Covel's Trend Following

Michael Covel

Investing, Business

4.6 • 730 Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is Martin Bergin, the president and owner of DUNN since 2007. Bergin oversees all mission-critical operations of the firm, including the firm’s research and development efforts as well as the construction and management of the firm’s managed futures portfolios. He joined DUNN in 1997 as Accounting Systems Manager, and was promoted to Vice President and Chief Financial Officer in 2001. Prior to joining DUNN, he was a partner at a Northern Virginia CPA firm where he worked for 10 years managing audit, tax and consulting engagements for clients in the managed futures, banking and defense industries.

The topic is Trend Following.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

Bill Dunn’s trading career
Diversification
Futures trading
Culture at DUNN Capital
Client communications
Principles of trading and firm evolution
Risk management
Cryptocurrency perspective

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Transcript

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0:00.0	My guest today, a repeat guest from Dunn Capital, CEO and owner, Martin Bergen.
0:08.1	Or, as I have known him for 40 years, Marty Bergen.
0:12.7	This year is a special year for Dunn Capital, one of the most acclaimed, longstanding trend following traders ever.
0:22.5	Their 50th year, 50,
0:25.2	50 years of trend following.
0:29.3	Yeah, trend following doesn't work, right?
0:32.6	I always enjoy catching up with Marty,
0:34.5	and I hope you enjoy this conversation.
0:37.2	And like I often say,
0:38.3	if you can't learn something, even if it's the unexpected, because Marty and I go into a lot of
0:43.6	different areas, from trading, from trend following, to business, to life. If you can't learn
0:50.4	something, there's something wrong with you.
0:56.7	I hope you enjoyed this conversation with Marty Bergen. I went back early on, and we're going to go back into the very beginning start of Dunn and Bill and everything.
1:20.2	When I first found out about him and met him through you, I started doing my own research and everything.
1:26.2	And I actually went and found his Northern Virginia home where he first started his first
1:34.3	CTA just to take a picture of it.
1:36.3	Because at that point in time, you don't know what's going on and you don't really understand
1:40.3	it.
1:41.3	You want to kind of frame things like, how did one of the most successful
1:44.2	traders ever start in that house? This 1970s kind of typical house in Northern Virginia.
1:52.0	And I actually went and found it and took a picture of it just because it was like on one of
1:55.8	the original documents from the 70s when he was listing his firm. Do you remember the neighborhood that it was in?
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