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Ep. 816: A Trading Primer with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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The Importance of Computer Programming

When I turned up for my first interview at Goldman Sachs in 1992, I didn't actually know who Goldman Sachs were. They were looking for a certain type of thinker and computer programs are also important. It's sort of useless being a mathematician without being able to computer program or that being able to program a computer rather because it's like being a novelist who can't write the way that you express your views  it's through programming computers. And so I was a reasonably good computer programmer, I had a background in quote, and Goldman very kindly took a punt on me. Strand runs through all of my career, but also runs through what we do at the counter, every degree programs

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