Ep. 1260: Eric Crittenden Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
Michael Covel's Trend Following
Michael Covel
4.6 • 730 Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2024
⏱️ 60 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. He 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:
- Health and diet
- Generational differences
- Cultural shifts
- Impact of technology
- Taking risks
- Entrepreneurship challenges
- Survivorship bias and statistical analysis
- Lottery and gambling
- Psychological factors influencing lifestyle choices
- Crypto and Bitcoin
- Personal philosophies
Jump in!
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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/
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
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Hope you enjoy my never-ending podcast conversation!
Transcript
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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. |
| 0:21.2 | I am your host, Michael Covel, not filtered, raw, honest. |
| 0:27.2 | That's my passion. |
| 0:33.5 | My guest today is Eric Crittenden. |
| 0:35.6 | Eric is a trend following trader. |
| 0:37.9 | He runs a firm called Standpoint Funds. |
| 0:41.1 | Tom Baso happens to be chairman at that firm. |
| 0:44.5 | Eric is a repeat guest on this podcast. |
| 0:46.7 | A guest that I love to have on this podcast. |
| 0:49.1 | We're both Gen X guys. |
| 0:50.9 | And today, we cover all kinds of territory, not just trading, life, all the social |
| 0:57.2 | change going on, all kinds of stuff. |
| 1:00.9 | What are those easy, breezy conversations that you may or may not like, but at least |
| 1:06.0 | it's authentic. |
| 1:07.6 | It's two men sharing their perspectives, their points of view. |
| 1:12.8 | And damn it, that's kind of rare these days. |
| 1:15.5 | I hope you enjoy this podcast with Eric Krippenden. |
| 1:26.9 | So what you've been doing to lose all this weight, though? |
| 1:28.8 | What's the workout? |
| 1:30.3 | So I took, well, I changed my diet dramatically. |
| 1:32.9 | I tried to get rid of anything that human beings didn't eat before the Civil War. |
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