Synopsis: Michael Covel speaks with Salem Abraham on today’s podcast. Abraham is the President of Abraham Trading Company with a 27-year track record (with much trend following success). Over the years, Abraham has been kind enough to offer Covel fantastic insights. Abraham also appeared in Covel’s film, Broke, and is the last chapter of The Complete TurtleTrader. Today, Covel and Abraham cover some topical market moves–the Swiss Franc and Crude Oil among them. Covel and Abraham also discuss living in Asia and Asian economics; a market lesson Abraham first learned in 1987; the recent action of the Swiss Franc; artificially priced markets and the analogy of a dam; Crude Oil as a trend; speculation at the core of Abraham’s business and its effect on markets generally; the effect of Abraham’s grandfather on his work; the influences on Abraham’s thinking and business decisions; location independence; the importance of a link to the outside world; avoiding disaster; and being agnostic to the market. http://www.michaelcovel.com/2015/02...-with-michael-covel-on-trend-following-radio/ http://traffic.libsyn.com/trendfollowing/319.mp3
Synopsis: Michael Covel speaks with Christopher Chabris on today’s podcast. Chabris is an American research psychologist, currently Associate Professor of Psychology and co-director of the Neuroscience Program at Union College in Schenectady, New York, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Neurology at Albany Medical College and a Research Affiliate at the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence. He is best known as the co-author (with Daniel Simons) of the popular science book The Invisible Gorilla, which presents the results of research into attention and other cognitive illusions. Chabris offers a wide take on what’s going on in our minds. Covel and Chabris discuss witnesses, memory, and the legal system; expert witness testimony; “the play that changed poker”; mastery in any field; the connection between chess and memory; Chabris’ interaction with Neil deGrasse Tyson, and how memory affects our outlook; the stock market, prediction, and forecasting; the importance of confidence with regard to predictions; simple rules vs. complex rules; Oprah Winfrey, Malcolm Gladwell, and intuition; and memory and the influx of information coming at us. http://www.michaelcovel.com/2015/02...-with-michael-covel-on-trend-following-radio/ http://traffic.libsyn.com/trendfollowing/318.mp3
Synopsis: Today on the podcast Michael Covel speaks with Mike Shell on his second visit to the podcast. Shell is the President, Chief Investment Officer, and Portfolio Manager of Shell Capital Management–specializing in alternative investment strategies, active risk management and directional trend systems he developed for the global universe of exchange traded securities. Covel and Shell discuss the importance of having price stops; knowing you’re wrong when you from 50 to 45 (for example); defining positive and negative trends; the idea of risking a dollar to make two; predefining our risk and controlling our downside; why winning percentage isn’t as important as many people think it is; the importance of an exit strategy in the middle of today’s bull market; looking back on the market in 2008 and since; and the asymmetry of losses. http://www.michaelcovel.com/2015/02...-with-michael-covel-on-trend-following-radio/
Synopsis: Michael Covel speaks with Jerry Parker on today’s episode of the podcast. This is Parker’s fourth interview with Michael Covel. Parker is an original Turtle, trained by Richard Dennis. However, since then he has very successfully run a managed money firm called Chesapeake Capital. Covel and Parker discuss a series of tweets written by Parker and use them as a jumping-off point for conversation. Topics include price action, “normal” market behavior; recent moves in the Swiss Franc; paying attention to entries as well as exits; why investors are often their own worst enemy; the first moment that Parker heard about price-based trading; becoming obsessed with asymmetrical risk and reward; why looking at trend following losses is important; why you can tell a system is robust if it has big drawdowns; and backtesting and treating all trades with equal weight. http://traffic.libsyn.com/trendfollowing/318.mp3 http://www.michaelcovel.com/2015/03...-with-michael-covel-on-trend-following-radio/ Parker profiled also in:
kut2k2 , This guy is just a good writer, a publicity writer, nothing wrong with that, just put it into the correct context, he's just media and drums up good business for the big wigs he interviews and maybe even gets some kickbacks. Nothing I would waste time on as a trader, I don't have time to watch trading media stuff.