If You Don't Follow The Trend, You Are Missing Out! (Eric Crittenden & Jason Buck Explain)

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Today's guests are Eric Crittenden, CIO of Standpoint Asset Management, and Jason Buck, CIO of Mutiny Funds.
In today’s episode, we talk about the sentiment around trend-following today. We discuss optimal diversifiers for trend-following, how the Herschel Walker trade relates to portfolio construction, and if investors are as diversified as they think they are.
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(1:25) - Welcome back to our guests, Eric and Jason
(2:26) - Investor interest in trend following
(6:24) - Herschel Walker Syndrome
(16:19) - Building a portfolio away from the traditional 60/40
(18:32) - Rob Lintner Revisited
(29:26) - Interest overseas
(41:54) - Paul Mulvaney’s back-to-back 40% months
(51:43) - Show recommendations
(56:46) - What Jason & Eric are hearing from investors today
(1:03:46) - Love for ETFs
(1:10:36) - Pairing trend following with factor investing
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[@stingray1381]

This is the best trend following chat I have heard on a podcast recently.

[@kylejarman6462]

One of the best shows I’ve listened to, Meb! Thanks to Eric and Jason as well. All of you are varying shades of the same trend color and it illustrates great things for us retail investors. I think you’ve found your new podcast content. Please have them all come back soon

[@togoni]

best to part with your money

[@maytagrepairman]

It was great to see Eric on the show again.

[@richardbowen3257]

Great show. I'd love to have more investments in trend following, realistically I find it hard to swallow fees that almost match the returns. Esp now bills pay well.

[@paulsimister944]

Excellent, thought provoking discussion. Thanks guys.

[@TheChinaPlay]

Audio Fellatio.....hmm interesting phrase to use. That's a podcast first for Meb's show I would think.

[@darrenritsick4219]

Meb, would love to see you interview David Dredge in a format like this - I think he has a very interesting and compelling framework around building convex portfolios but the blind spot seems to be around periods like 2022 where long GDP risk assets do poorly in a low vol environment where long vol/tail risk hedges won't positively contribute. Would be interested to see him have a discussion of his portfolio concepts with folks in the trend following community.

[@kearycastleberry1783]

Excellent information!

[@simmonds3930]

Always get valuable insights from this podcast

[@rpsulli]

Fun episode 🎉

[@airbourne2]

The thing I don't understand about all this back-testing and saying "that wouldn't have worked in the 1970's" is we have a very different Federal Reserve and gov't attitude now than we did back then.

[@SigFigNewton]

What about keeping a portion of the portfolio in trend-following until a long downturn begins, then dollar cost average out of trend-following as the market sinks. Once things have recovered, put a portion of the portfolio into trend following again. Get the benefit trend-following softening the downward slope of the overall portfolio without keeping it all on hand for the recovery, when trend following will underperform

[@nadialarsson4577]

I usually like your show. Knowledge-based. But I'm rather disappointed about the tone in this ep. You guys were talking about clients like they're dumb infants. I know, I know. People hate vol and get scared. So you guys must have some herding skills. But if I were a potential client listening to you here. Would be massively put off. Otherwise keep up the good work.

[@Sokrabiades]

Are you kidding? As someone who is thinking how I can help my clients best, this is a gold mine. As a consumer of Meb's content, I'm grateful I don't have to hear the politically correct version. I do get what you mean, and you were very kind in your criticism of them, but for me, this was extremely useful, so my reaction was the exact opposite of yours.

[@henrymarkson3758]

@nadialarsson4577 you are 100% on the money (no pun intended) with your comment This is all idle chatter.

[@heteshjoosery8542]

They literally just handed you the keys to the kingdom in this episode