Ep. 375: Mark Sleeman Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Published: Aug. 28, 2015, 2 a.m.

My guest today is Mark Sleeman,\xa0the managing director and founder of M.S. Capital Management Limited ("MS"). Mark lives in Auckland, New Zealand and holds an honours degree in Mechanical Engineering (1985) from Auckland university.\xa0With over 30 years of trading and research, Mark has extensive experience in trading system design and implementation. Mark is registered with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and is a member of the National Futures Association, as the principal and associated person of MS.

The topic is Trend Following.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

  • The fallacy of \u201cbuy low, sell high\u201d
  • The psychology of trading
  • Keeping your losses small
  • The importance of maintaining a life
  • Focusing on the strategy, not the instrument
  • Understanding that patience has to be learned

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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