Ep. 14: Douglas Stewart Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

My guest today is Douglas Stewart, the founder of Market Concepts, LLC in early 2007. He has a BA in Education from Virginia Commonwealth University. From 1996 to 2002 he worked in the industry as a financial advisor. After the bear market of 2000-2002, he left the regional brokerage firm Scott and Stringfellow and began studying technical analysis and alternative investment strategies. From 2003 to present day, he has researched and developed alternative investment strategies, which his clients have benefited from, and which paid off handsomely during The Great Recession of 2008/2009.

The topic is Trend Following.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

• Stewart shares some of his experiences coming of age during the dotcom bubble
• Once the bubble burst, he immersed himself for ten hours a day for several years studying books such as Jack Schwager's "Market Wizards", which led him to his lightbulb moment; he explains how this led him into the trend following space
• Interesting experience he had at a panel in November of 2008 where he explained, in song, how he wasn't able to predict the markets
• How ego can hurt you in the trend following world, why a majority will never really want to adopt a trend following perspective, and the zen of accepting that you'll never be able to accurately predict where the markets might go.

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