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Ep. 1406: David Booth Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Sep 7, 2026

My guest today is David Booth. David is the chairman and co-founder of Dimensional Fund Advisors. He is a businessman, investor, and philanthropist. He is known for applying financial science to investing and advocating disciplined, long-term strategies that embrace market uncertainty.

The topic is his book Stay Calm: Learn to Embrace Uncertainty in Investing and Life.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

  • Staying calm and embracing uncertainty in investing and life
  • Building Dimensional Fund Advisors and the small-cap investment approach
  • Market efficiency, prediction limits, and long-term investing
  • Science, behavioral economics, AI, and investment decision-making
  • Entrepreneurship, human ingenuity, and adapting for long-term success

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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