Ep. 911: Eric Crittenden Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Michael Covel's Trend Following

Michael Covel

Business, Investing

4.6 • 732 Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2020

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is Eric Crittenden, the Chief Investment Officer of Standpoint Funds. He has over 20 years of experience designing and managing investment strategies, with an expertise in systematic trading in both mutual funds and hedge funds. Aside from creating sound investment strategies, his ability to simplify and communicate complex topics is what sets him apart from other investment managers. Tom Basso is the Chairman. He brings over 40 years of money management experience to Standpoint as Chairman of the Board. He was the Founder and CEO of Trendstat Capital, one of the largest futures managers in the U.S. in the 80s and 90s. Tom's successful career has been highlighted in the book The New Market Wizards by Jack Schwager.

The topic is Trend Following.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

Critical Thinking
Social Media
Portfolio Returns
"Let's do our best not to mistake psychological problems for philosophical insights." –Sam Harris
Increase Diversification
Trading Commodities
Zen Proverbs
Understanding the Fundamentals
Return on Investment
2020
The FED
Tom Basso
Standpoint Funds

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/

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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.
0:27.4	That's my passion.
0:33.5	Diving into a little bit of a trend following mindset today.
0:38.7	Reaching back to my past.
0:42.0	Not really my past, but just haven't talked to him for a long time.
0:46.7	My guest today, Eric Crittenden.
0:49.5	Eric is a trend following trader.
0:51.1	He has two plus decades experience in the space. He's been around the
0:56.0	block. He's seen all kinds of stuff. And he has a great perspective. Today, Eric and I take the
1:02.9	trend following philosophy, the managed futures philosophy ride around the maypole, so to speak.
1:09.6	We go everywhere and anywhere. And look, if you're
1:13.2	interested in this kind of thinking, this kind of trading, the trend following mindset, Eric
1:21.2	is somebody you need to learn from. Full stop, bottom line, learn something. Now, it's also very cool that Eric has a new
1:31.7	fund out right now that happens to have as the chairman won Tom Basso. That already tells you that
1:39.6	Eric's a pretty smart guy because if you go out and you get Tom Basso to be the chairman of your firm,
1:45.5	you kind of know what's up. Without any further delay, let's jump right into my conversation
1:51.3	with Eric Crittenden. Here's where I want to lead off with.
2:07.0	I jotted this down and I posted it on Facebook the other day.
2:10.5	I don't know where it came from.
2:11.9	I think I was just getting tired of watching emotional thinking.
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