Ep. 7: Michael Shannon and Jim Byers Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Published: April 4, 2012, 1:15 a.m.

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My guests today are Michael Shannon and Jim Byers.

Shannon, an original Turtle trader trained by Richard Dennis. He was featured in Michael Covel\'s The Complete TurtleTrader.

Byers is a trader and investor. In the 2006-2008 period, Byers started studying trend following; since then, he\'s started a fund with his partner, Todd Miller.

The topics are the Turtle story and Trend Following.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

  • Shannon\'s experience in the Turtle program with Richard Dennis and William Eckhardt
  • Historical insights and anecdotes regarding the legendary Turtle story
  • Shannon\'s unlikely background
  • The personalities of Dennis and Eckhardt
  • Why Turtles with outsider backgrounds were generally more successful; and whether or not Dennis and Eckhardt were inspired by the film, "Trading Places"
  • How trend following can still be a winning game even if you aren\'t right the majority of the time
  • More in depth "light bulb" moments that Byers has had since taking up trend following

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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