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My guest today is Mike Dever, an American businessman, futures trader, entrepreneur, and author. Dever is the founder and CEO of Brandywine Asset Management, Inc., an investment management firm founded in 1982.

The topic is his book Jackass Investing: Don't Do It. Profit From It.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

• Being an entrepreneur from an early age and making his first investments in his early 20s
• Some of the myths discussed in "Jackass Investing"
• How everybody is a market timer
• The stigma against investing in futures
• Return drivers
• The risks you take by being risk averse
• The shift in attitudes towards volatility in America
• Why strategies based on sound return drivers are so important to his firm and where he's at today

Jump in!

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