Paloma Martinez was instrumental in helping to create my documentary film. She is currently working on her film school thesis, but she can use support on her film.

Look, we all know that America is a political stew these days where no one agrees on much. However, Paloma is fixated on the stories involving kids caught in the middle of the drug war. I will be helping her, but it would nice to see the trend following community out there, especially those who enjoyed my trend following film “Broke”, help out too!

More (first link is easy donation):
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/996534332/angels-falling
http://www.paloma-martinez.com

Feedback in about my new podcasts:

Hi Mike, Great podcast [mp3] covering Jeremy Grantham and his latest quarterly write-up. Right now the people I believe in and follow for economic investing advice are: Marc Faber, Jim Rogers, Jeremy Grantham [and] you. You’ve been doing a great job on the podcasts. Have been listening to them faithfully. Some, like Faulkner’s [mp3], require more than one listening. Let me know if you’re ever in Seattle. Can offer you a nice dinner at place of our choosing plus a drink or two if that’s your thing for a chance to meet and talk with you. No agenda or anything. Let me know. One question: ever considered starting a fund as a live demonstration of TT in action? Would be interesting…Keep up the great work. Larry

Thanks Larry. When in Seattle, deal!

You can find my podcasts direct on iTunes, but the links are also here:

http://traffic.libsyn.com/trendfollowing/TrendFollowingManifesto030812.mp3 (Michael Covel Philosophy; brand new!)
http://traffic.libsyn.com/trendfollowing/TrendFollowingManifesto030612.mp3 (Mike Shell Interview)
http://traffic.libsyn.com/trendfollowing/TrendFollowingManifesto022912.mp3 (Charles Faulkner Interview)

In order that’s 39:59, 84:41, & 60:01 minutes.

My Charles Faulkner interview podcast has brought in nice feedback:

Dear Mike, I just had to drop you a quick note “thanking you profusely” for the Faulkner interview on the podcast. This was by far my favorite podcast you did. It was such a easy going conversation. I’m sure you could’ve gone on for another hour. Please have him on again soon. Sincerely, James Cerniglia

More:

Hey Mike, just had a listen to the interview you did with Charles Faulkner…very nice indeed. I am a big proponent of how this methodology helps your trading and just your overall attitude and perspective on life in general. I do have on thing I would like to ask you though, I often here you refer to the herd or sheep behavior with trading, so my question is: do we use this behavior to our advantage, so we can jump on the bandwagon for trend following, but go against it in our conventional way of investing (buy and hold)?

Trend following follows trends. Just like the herd, it will follow the group, the trend. The difference? Trend followers have exit strategies as they know markets eventually reverse. They plan for this. That’s how you take advantage of herd behavior.

Note: Listen here.

My interview with New Market Wizard Charles Faulkner is live. 60+ minutes. Take a listen!

My interview with trend/systematic trader Bob Pardo is live on iTunes. More on Pardo here.

Listen on iTunes now.

Listen on iTunes. You can subscribe easily on iTunes too–for free.

Check out my recent interview with long time systematic trader Mike Dever:

• Listen: iTunes
• Listen: libysn

Check out Mike’s new book Jackass Investing too.

An upcoming event with Longboard Asset Management (principals Eric Crittenden and Cole Wilcox featured in The Little Book of Trading):

Podcast #4 and feed are live.

Feedback in:

Mike, I really appreciate the work you put into that movie. What I really appreciate more than anything you have ever accomplished is your ability to think outside the box and search for what is real. You are a warrior. You stand on your own two feet. You don’t give up easily. Thank you for inspiring me. Have a good weekend.

Thanks Mark!