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Michael Covel

Michael Covel

Formal First Name
Michael
Dates
1968 - present

Michael Covel is a highly respected author, film director, and entrepreneur. He is best known for popularizing the counterintuitive and controversial trading strategy “trend following”. Covel is the host of the podcast Trend Following™ Radio, the underground alternative hit that has ranked as high as #2 on iTunes investing channel where he teaches beginners to seasoned pros how to generate profits with straightforward and repeatable rules. He extends his trading expertise to readers and clients through the use of film, the worldwide web and the written word. He is also the author of 8 books from 2004-2024 including the international bestsellers Trend Following and TurtleTrader. His books have been published in 16 languages.

TREND FOLLOWING™ RADIO

  • Since 2012, Covel has recorded 1200+ episodes with listeners across 188+ countries.

  • His top-ranked podcast has over ten million listens and 1,000+ episodes including interviews with Nobel Prize winners Daniel Kahneman and Harry Markowitz.

  • His consulting clients include hedge funds, sovereign wealth funds, institutional investors and individual traders in more than 70 countries.


TREND FOLLOWING

  • His first book, Trend Following, is a must-have classic that has been translated into German, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, French, Arabic, Turkish, Portuguese, and Russian.

  • The book profiles great trend following traders along with defining and teaching the underground trading strategy of trend following.


MEDIA & SPEAKING

  • Covel has been featured by major press, including The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, CCTV, The Straits Times, and Fox Business.

  • Additionally, The Wall Street Journal, Barrons, Globe and Mail, Bloomberg and The New York Post have quoted and interviewed him.

  • His written work has also appeared in Technical Analysis Magazine, Trader Monthly, Stocks, Futures and Options Magazine, Futures Magazine, TradingMarkets.com, Yahoo! Finance, Market Technicians Association Newsletter, and Futures Japan Magazine. 

  • He has presented live in Bangkok, Beijing, Guangzhou, Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Macau, Paris, São Paulo, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Singapore, Tokyo, Vancouver, Vienna and across the USA.