Michael Konik's guest appearances

Michael Konik

Michael Covel's Trend Following

Daniel Overberger - What Now?

Elon Musk

Daniel Kahneman

Tim Ferriss

Tyler Cowen

Annie Duke

Michael Mauboussin

Steven Pinker

Mark Manson

Jim Rickards

Chris Ryan

Chris Ducker

Rich Karlgaard

Cal Newport

Vanessa Van Edwards

Nir Eyal

OwlTail

Charmaine Clamor

Michael Konik is the author of The Unexpected Guest: How a Homeless Man from the Streets of L.A. Redefined our Home, as well as 13 other books. Charmaine Clamor is a physical therapist, healer and singer. Charmaine: https://www.bewelltherapy.co/   Michael: http://michaelkonik.com/ You're living your dream. Don't miss it. If you’re enjoying this podcast, please rate and subscribe on your podcast player of choice. And if you’re really digging it, you can help me out with some of the expense by hitting the Donate button on my website.

Michael Konik is the author of The Unexpected Guest: How a Homeless Man from the Streets of L.A. Redefined our Home, as well as 13 other books. Charmaine Clamor is a physical therapist, healer and singer. Charmaine: <a href="https://www.bewelltherapy.co/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.bewelltherapy.co/</a> Michael: <a href="http://michaelkonik.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://michaelkonik.com/</a> You're living your dream. Don't miss it. If you’re enjoying this podcast, please rate and subscribe on your podcast player of choice. And if you’re really digging it, you can help me out with some of the expense by hitting the <a href="https://www.danieloverberger.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Donate</a> button on my website.

#42 Michael Konik and  Charmaine Clamor

Michael Covel

My guest today is Michael Konik, the author of many books of fiction, non-fiction, and essays. Konik has had a fantastic experience in the world of sports betting, and the parallels between his world and the trend following world are off the charts.  The topic is his book The Smart Money: How the World's Best Sports Bettors Beat the Bookies Out of Millions. In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:  Similarities between Konik's world and the Turtle story Konik's background and how he came into this world of rule-based betting Some of the stories about "Big Daddy" Rick Matthews (fake name for a very high profile individual featured on 60 Minutes), the main character in Konik's book and the most successful sports wagerer in the world Position limits Konik's theater background and how it tied in to the experiment Sports betting technique, the line, the Kelly Criteria, and "Big Daddy's" own line The "brain trust" and how "Big Daddy" led his operation Point spreads Looking for value rather than a favorite home team The importance of a dispassionate outlook The importance of knowing why you place a bet or trade How the brain trust came up with a line better than the other lines out there The importance of injuries in sports betting  Jump in! --- I’m MICHAEL COVEL, the host of TREND FOLLOWING RADIO, and I’m 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’d like to give you a great piece of advice you can use in your life and trading journey… cut your losses! You will find much more about that philosophy here: https://www.trendfollowing.com/trend/ You can watch a free video here: https://www.trendfollowing.com/video/ Can’t get enough of this episode? You can choose from my thousand plus episodes here: https://www.trendfollowing.com/podcast My social media platforms: Twitter: @covel Facebook: @trendfollowing LinkedIn: @covel Instagram: @mikecovel Hope you enjoy my never-ending podcast conversation!

My guest today is Michael Konik, the author of many books of fiction, non-fiction, and essays. Konik has had a fantastic experience in the world of sports betting, and the parallels between his world and the trend following world are off the charts.  The topic is his book The Smart Money: How the World's Best Sports Bettors Beat the Bookies Out of Millions. In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss: <ul> <li>Similarities between Konik's world and the Turtle story</li> <li>Konik's background and how he came into this world of rule-based betting</li> <li>Some of the stories about "Big Daddy" Rick Matthews (fake name for a very high profile individual featured on 60 Minutes), the main character in Konik's book and the most successful sports wagerer in the world</li> <li>Position limits</li> <li>Konik's theater background and how it tied in to the experiment</li> <li>Sports betting technique, the line, the Kelly Criteria, and "Big Daddy's" own line</li> <li>The "brain trust" and how "Big Daddy" led his operation</li> <li>Point spreads</li> <li>Looking for value rather than a favorite home team</li> <li>The importance of a dispassionate outlook</li> <li>The importance of knowing why you place a bet or trade</li> <li>How the brain trust came up with a line better than the other lines out there</li> <li>The importance of injuries in sports betting</li> </ul> Jump in! --- I’m MICHAEL COVEL, the host of TREND FOLLOWING RADIO, and I’m 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’d like to give you a great piece of advice you can use in your life and trading journey… cut your losses! You will find much more about that philosophy here: <a href="https://www.trendfollowing.com/trend/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.trendfollowing.com/trend/</a> You can watch a free video here: <a href="https://www.trendfollowing.com/video/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.trendfollowing.com/video/</a> Can’t get enough of this episode? You can choose from my thousand plus episodes here: <a href="https://www.trendfollowing.com/podcast" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.trendfollowing.com/podcast</a> My social media platforms: Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/covel" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">@covel</a> Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/trendfollowing/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">@trendfollowing</a> LinkedIn: <a href="https://linkedin.com/in/covel/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">@covel</a> Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/mikecovel/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">@mikecovel</a> Hope you enjoy my never-ending podcast conversation!

Ep. 161: Michael Konik Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio