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Bestselling author Michael Covel is the host of Trend Following Radio with 15+ million listens. Investments, economics, psychology, politics, decision-making, human behavior, entrepreneurship and trading -- all passionately explored and debated. Guests include Nobel Prize winners: Robert Aumann, Angus Deaton, Daniel Kahneman, Oliver Hart, Harry Markowitz & Vernon Smith. More guests: Jack Canfield, Howard Marks, James Altucher, Dan Ariely, Jean-Philippe Bouchaud, Kathleen Eisenhardt, Marc Faber, Tim Ferriss, Jason Fried, Gerd Gigerenzer, Larry Hite, Sally Hogshead, Ryan Holiday, Jack Horner, Ewan Kirk, Steven Kotler, Michael Mauboussin, Tucker Max, Barry Ritholtz, Jim Rogers, Jack Schwager, Ed Seykota, Philip Tetlock & Walter Williams. 1200+ episodes.

May 10, 2013

My guest today is Jason Russell, the President and CIO of Acorn Global Investments in Canada. Russell brings a unique perspective to the show with a very clear strategy on how his firm makes money for their clients.

The topic is Trend Following.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

  • Russell's background and how he came to form Acorn Global Investments
  • Russell's strategy for Acorn and "the baker analogy"
  • The idea of "winners stay, losers go"
  • Showing his investors every position that Russell has
  • How the terms "commodity trading adviser", "trend follower", "quantitative trading" don't exactly describe what many traders do
  • Ed Seykota and the "trading tribe"
  • Letting go of "why" and simply riding out trends
  • Where strategies like Russell's fit in the context of a portfolio
  • The importance of delivering uncorrelated results to the S&P 500
  • Drawdowns and the psychological effect of going through one alone, uncorrelated to other markets
  • How there's nothing more important than risk management

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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.

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