Ep. 220: Victor Sperandeo Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Published: March 17, 2014, midnight

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My guest today is Victor Sperandeo, known as \\u201cTrader Vic\\u201d, a US trader, index developer, and financial commentator. He serves as the President and CEO of Alpha Financial Technologies, LLC (AFT), is a founding partner of EAM Partners L.P., and serves as the President and CEO of its general partner, EAM Corporation.

The topic is trading.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

  • Recent public policy directions
  • Trading against your public policy interests
  • Zero interest rate policy
  • Whether the S&P is a \\u201cbribe\\u201d
  • The Fed mandate to keep stocks from falling and to stop volatility
  • The wealth effect
  • Why the stock market going up is a very poor instrument to fix the economy
  • The trend towards socialism
  • Sperandeo\\u2019s experience working with George Soros
  • Sperandeo\\u2019s experience with the DTI index
  • lack swans and the effects of large, catastrophic events on the market; why the only way to protect yourself is extreme diversification; volatility balancing; and Sperandeo\\u2019s experience as a young man and how he came into the trading world

Jump in!

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I\\u2019m MICHAEL COVEL, the host of TREND FOLLOWING RADIO, and I\\u2019m 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\\u2019d like to give you a great piece of advice you can use in your life and trading journey\\u2026 cut your losses! You will find much more about that philosophy here: https://www.trendfollowing.com/trend/

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