Ep. 221: Howard Lindzon Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

My guest today is Howard Lindzon, a Canadian entrepreneur, author, financial analyst, technical analyst and angel investor. Lindzon manages a hedge fund, serves as managing partner of the holding company Social Leverage, limited partner at Knight's Bridge Capital Partners, and is the co-founder of StockTwits. He's also known for the satirical podcast Wallstrip.  The topic is entrepreneurship. In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss: The commonalities between the angel investing world and trend following Over-diversification Diversification in private investments vs. stocks How Lindzon got the entrepreneurial "bug" Lindzon's early career as a stockbroker The beginnings of Wallstrip Lindzon's comedy influence How Wallstrip led to the next four years of Lindzon's investments How Lindzon's mistakes helped him grow as an investor Lindzon's experience with fraud committed by a business partner Keeping your business drama-free The issue of distraction Lindzon on the birth of StockTwits The investment that changed Lindzon's financial life in 2005 The future of StockTwits as Lindzon sees it Social leverage The art of curation and verticalization Thinking of the financial web as a social bank account 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!