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Michael Covel's Trend Following

Ep. 1335: Thinking for a Living with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Michael Covel's Trend Following

Michael Covel

Investing, Business

4.6730 Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2025

⏱️ 122 minutes

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Summary

Please enjoy my monologue Thinking for a Living 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
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LinkedIn: @covel
Instagram: @mikecovel

Hope you enjoy my never-ending podcast conversation!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Given the carnage, the chaos, the uncertainty of April 2025.

0:08.1

I mean, seriously, what a time to be alive, wild times.

0:14.3

Some people are ecstatic. Some people have lost their shirt.

0:19.0

And the month is not even over.

0:22.0

So who knows where markets will go?

0:25.8

But in the face of this onslaught,

0:29.0

I would say that having a certain mindset is probably the foundation.

0:36.4

If you wake up in April 2025 and you have no plan,

0:40.0

you might be behind the eight ball a little bit.

0:42.7

But if you want to know how to get that plan,

0:44.9

it starts with the mindset.

0:46.4

It starts with that foundation.

0:49.4

And today I want to share back to back two episodes

0:53.0

with a favorite guest of mine, a trend following

0:56.6

trader.

0:58.7

And as I often say on this podcast, if you can't learn something from this man, if you can't

1:06.5

walk away with a takeaway, there's something wrong with you. Like give up, like retire.

1:14.9

Go to the old people's home and get that intravenous drip of applesauce. Because you're toast,

1:22.6

man. If you can't learn anything from these two episodes, if there's not an aha moment, if the light bulb doesn't appear over your head, if you don't feel like you've moved your life forward in a better direction in some way or another, give up. It's over.

1:41.8

Without any further delay, let's jump right in, and I'll see you again next week.

1:59.9

On the podcast today, one of my favorites, Eric Crittenden of Standpoint Funds, a trend following managed futures type trader.

2:09.6

Eric brings a very practical, no-nonsense approach to the markets and to life.

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