Michael Covel, Ed Seykota & Larry Hite

About: Our Story

"Looking at data is one thing, but knowing what to do with it is something else."

Readers instantly ask the smart questions:

• Who are you and what have you been through that I can relate to in my life?
• What have you overcome and how?
• What did you figure out along the way?
• What did you succeed at?
• What are you going to show me that I can apply to make my life better?

Michael Covel is not Wall Street royalty. He is not part of the system. His credentials are not Goldman Sachs. No pedigree, or PhD. His background, his personal story, is one of struggle. Specifically, the struggle to figure out how the great traders really make their millions in up or down markets. While Covel did not know it as a then broke college graduate, long before ever making his first million, he had stumbled into the big question: What if there was an underground way to make money that did not require buy & hope, mutual funds, CNBC, Warren Buffett, indexing, bailouts, politicians or divining future Fed actions—ever?

How did Covel overcome his massive outsider status to learn the true story of real wealth creation? Building off his initial bootstrapping success, the original TurtleTrader®, Covel continued to develop very creative methods to get close to the world's great traders. Covel was a regular guy who launched a quest to learn from the greats with irregular passion. Eventually, they opened the door to his persistence. He became an expert by learning directly from the great trend following traders, took that knowledge and synthesized what they taught him, finding common and uncommon threads and distilling all of those lessons and best practices into a useful education to give regular people the chance at making big money. The critical questions for you:

• Can you make the money you've always dreamed of in less than 30 minutes a day?
• Can you transform your wealth building potential in less than 4 weeks?
• Can you gain access to the world's great trend traders? Our access, the onerous research homework, is yours.
• Can you really use Michael Covel's methods in any country? An emphatic yes.
• Can nurture trump nature? Talent & genetic gifts are overrated. The right rules & practice are how you win.

Michael Covel & his firm Trend Following™/TurtleTrader® have worked for over a decade to deliver cutting edge & transformative solutions for aspiring students worldwide. Their unparalleled global teaching track record, with 6000+ students in 70+ countries & 150,000+ books sold, has made them the respected trend following research & education solutions leader. You will learn exactly a proprietary & robust trading plan that answers:

• What market do you buy or sell at any time?
• How much of a market do you buy or sell at any time?
• When do you buy or sell a market?
• When do you get out of a losing position?
• When do you get out of a winning position?

Why are the answers to those 5 questions so important? Your money is at risk. No matter where you put it. There is always the chance that you could lose it or miss out on a bigger opportunity. Surprise events, uncertainty, chaos, and even primal fear are not going away. Peace, quiet, order, and predictability are a dream. And let's face it head on--conventional measures of risk have killed investors over the last decade. Simple reason: Markets are not efficient and human beings are not rational. Where does that leave everyone? In a world of markets driven by random "jumps" trend following gives you tools to deal with that uncertainty and focus on the only worthwhile goal: compounding returns for homerun profits.

Solution? Skip the almost two decades of Michael Covel's learning curve & benefit from his expertise: now.

More: Michael Covel personal note.

Michael Covel: Fast Facts

15+ years of research.
20+ hall of fame trading teachers.
100+ trend traders consulted.
Behind the scenes of Wall Street, politics & media.

Michael Covel

Michael Covel serves as president of Trend Following™, a privately owned research firm specializing in trend following. He is also a bestselling author, both domestically and internationally. His trend following books include The Little Book of Trading (2011), Trend Commandments (2011), The Complete TurtleTrader (2009, 2007; bestseller), and the classic Trend Following (2009, 2007, 2005, 2004; bestseller). Covel's books have been translated into 10+ languages. His first film and directorial debut, a documentary, is Broke: The New American Dream.

Covel has presented live to audiences in Austin, Baltimore, Chicago, Dallas, Hong Kong, Houston, Jekyll Island (GA), La Jolla, Las Vegas, Macau, Miami, Mobile (AL), New York, Paris, São Paulo, Stanford, Tokyo and Vienna (Austria). His research firm has been training trend following traders since 1996 across 70+ countries. His original online creation TurtleTrader.com®, inspired from this obscure 1994 magazine, has drawn millions of visitors.

• Success: 150,000+ books sold. 6000+ private students in 70+ countries.
• Reviewed: AOL Money, Big Hollywood, Bloomberg, Forbes, Huffington Post.
• On Air: Bloomberg, Dennis Miller Show, Business News Network, Fox Business.
• Addressed: BM&F Bovespa, CLSA, CME Group, Legg Mason, Managed Funds Association.
• Quoted: Barrons, Bloomberg, Globe and Mail, New York Post, Wall Street Journal.
• Published: Active Trader (PDF), Daily Reckoning, Futures Magazine, Ludwig von Mises Institute (Link), Market Technicians Association (PDF), SFO Magazine, Yahoo! Finance, Your Trading Edge (PDF).
• Influences: Trained by the great trend following traders.
• Education: George Mason University (BA, Political Science) and The Florida State University (MBA). Studied graduate level International Relations (London, UK).
• Fun Facts: Favorite book Fountainhead, loves Southeast Asia, collects dinosaur skulls, Myers-Briggs type (PDF), lost a case before Supreme Court of Virginia, envies Anthony Bourdain, can still swing a baseball bat with authority and once ran for political office.
• Photos: 1, 2.
• Recommended: Books.
• Wikipedia: Go.
• Contact: Go.

"Great trend Followers are lone wolfs, not packs of coyotes."

Covel's wider economic views can be seen in his Mises.org feature, but the essence of any entrepreneurial foundation (including trend following) is this Milton Friedman interview. If you can relate to that you are on the road to the winning trend following mindset. Rationality really equals success? Consider: Bill Dunn and Turtle teacher Richard Dennis are both on the Board of the Reason Foundation.

Michael Covel's first creation:

Trend Following™/TurtleTrader®
Little League Team

How does Michael Covel pronounce his last name? Co-vell. "Co" rhymes with toe. "Vell" rhymes with bell. Equally accented each syllable. It was shortened from Covalesky, which was shortened originally from Kavaliauskas.

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