Ep. 1160: Eric Crittenden Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
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Michael Covel
4.6 • 732 Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2023
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Eric Crittenden, the founder and Chief Investment Officer of Standpoint, an investment firm focused on bringing all-weather portfolio solutions to US investors. Eric plays an active role in the firm's research, portfolio management, product innovation, business strategy, and client facing activities. Eric has over 20 years of experience researching, designing, and managing alternative asset portfolios on behalf of families, individuals, financial advisors, and other institutional investors.
The topic is Trend Following.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
- The trend following perspective
- Eric's investment strategy
- Understanding trend following v. quant trading
- Realistic expectations to win in the market
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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/
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| 0:00.0 | This is trend following radio where great thinking comes alive. |
| 0:10.9 | Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, bestselling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings. |
| 0:21.0 | I am your host, Michael Covel, not filtered, raw, honest. |
| 0:27.4 | That's my passion. |
| 0:33.2 | On the podcast today, a return guest. |
| 0:36.9 | One of my favorites, Eric Crittenden of Standpoint Funds, a trend following managed futures type trader. |
| 0:45.0 | Eric brings a very practical, no-nonsense approach to the markets and to life. |
| 0:50.7 | A perspective I like to think that I have, but I always enjoy Eric's view because he comes at it |
| 0:56.4 | through angles that sometimes I'm a little fast and furious and Eric's very thoughtful, |
| 1:03.0 | gives you the perspective that you might not see or the perspective you might need to see. |
| 1:14.7 | You know the base of this podcast, trend following. |
| 1:21.5 | Enjoy a little more of that trend following perspective with Eric Critt. I think when I had you on, I always get to pick the mind of a professor to some degree. |
| 1:35.2 | And you're looking very professorial these days, by the way. You're falling right into it, |
| 1:38.6 | huh? That's the gray hair, man. Even though you've got your approach, you know what you want to do every day, |
| 1:45.2 | you still are having to take care of people and their hopes and their dreams and their savings. |
| 1:50.3 | And that always brings a little stress, doesn't it? Well, I would say that now is probably the least |
| 1:56.4 | stressed I've been in living memory that I can recall. So, I mean, on one hand, look, we just do one thing and do it well and do it the way we want to do it. That's the way to live. I would encourage everyone to try to approach that in life. I have just managed to get there. I don't know how well it's going to work going forward. You never do. But I can tell you that my stress level is as low as I can ever |
| 2:17.9 | remember in my life. You bring up an interesting point because we've talked before and we don't |
| 2:22.6 | need to go into any prior stuff because right now you guys are on a role at standpoint. Things are |
| 2:27.4 | doing well. People are believing in you and they're believing in you by putting their capital |
| 2:31.9 | with you. But I guess what's interesting is the foundation, |
| 2:36.2 | and maybe you can explain how this happened. But the foundation is, and you just alluded to this, |
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