Ep. 367: Eric Crittenden Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Michael Covel's Trend Following

Michael Covel

Business, Investing

4.6 • 732 Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2015

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is Eric Crittenden, the founder and Chief Investment Officer of Standpoint Funds. Eric has spent his career with trend following strategies, first at BlackStar where he managed a fund-of-funds, then at Longboard, and now at Standpoint Funds. This background makes him not only a fountain of knowledge on trend following theory, but also the operational logistics and practical considerations. He has also published several research papers on the matter, which are linked to below.

The topic is Trend Following.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

Relative momentum vs. time momentum
Survivorship bias in the financial advisory market
Defining risk – how much are you willing to lose?
Why trend following works for both high-risk and low-risk assets
Identifying the "sweet spot" client for fund managers
The difference between most mutual funds and direct-managed funds
Financial simulations vs. real life

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.

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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.
0:21.1	I am your host, Michael Covel.
0:24.0	Not filtered, raw, honest.
0:27.3	That's my passion.
0:32.6	My guest today is Eric Crittenden.
0:35.1	Eric is with Longboard Asset Management.
0:39.8	Also, Longboard Mutual Funds. Eric has been on my show twice in the past and was a featured prominent trader,
0:47.4	along with Cole Wilcox in my book, The Little Book of Trading. Today, as typical with Eric,
0:54.0	because Eric can go wide and deep, we cover a lot of territory.
0:57.8	I hope you enjoy this conversation with someone that has a great bit of insight when it comes
1:04.0	to systems trading.
1:13.9	I guess I'm reaching you in Arizona.
1:19.3	They've let you out of the machine for a little bit of fresh sunshine with me, I assume.
1:21.0	Yeah, twice a day.
1:24.2	They allow me out of the box to get some sunshine and air.
1:26.2	How goes life?
1:26.8	How is everything?
1:33.7	Pretty well. No complaints. It's hot and sunny in Phoenix, as it typically is this time of year.
1:35.7	How's life? Are you in Vietnam?
1:42.9	I'm in Saigon, so it's hot and sunny here. Probably as hot as you guys. Probably high 90s, somewhere in there, but the humidity is a little rough sometimes.
1:46.4	Worse than what you experienced back in Virginia?
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