What David Grider is saying
Partner & Head of Liquid Investments, Finality Capital Partners
3 dated public stances tracked since 2025-08-20, most recently 2025-08-20. Each line carries the date and the venue it came from; quotation marks mean verbatim. Methodology.
The stances below are c8alpha's editorial distillation of David Grider's public commentary — television, podcasts, and interviews — compiled by automated transcript analysis and dated to the episode they came from. They may lag the speaker's current view and may contain extraction errors. Text in quotation marks is verbatim from the episode; everything else is our paraphrase. David Grider is not affiliated with c8alpha and has not endorsed this page. Nothing here is investment advice.
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Returns 90d -26.6% (n=5) · 180d -39.6% (n=5) · 1y -39.8% (n=5)
Raw direction-aware returns on public statements — long calls credited when the price rose, shorts when it fell, shorts capped at −100% — in a rising market this mostly measures who was long, not who has skill. Returns run from the stance date; calls are rarely closed publicly, so fixed 90-day / 180-day / 1-year horizons are used. A horizon shows only once it has fully matured, and only at 5+ scored stances.
Most-argued themes
Tracked stances
bullish / bearish is a view they argued; owns / short is a position they said they hold.
2025-08-20
MSTR
bullish
Forward Guidance · video
MicroStrategy preferreds delivered ~9% effective yield while preserving Bitcoin-linked upside optionality, giving credit-like downside protection at a time of macro uncertainty without requiring full spot exposure
“you can get credit like downside but crypto like upside”
90d -39.9% · 180d -62.6% · 1y -67.4%
Crypto Credit Markets Will Rewrite Risk Management | David Grider
2025-08-20
CRCL
bullish
Forward Guidance · video
Circle's net interest margin on stablecoin reserves expands in a rate-hiking cycle, making it an uncorrelated long within a crypto portfolio that profits when rates rise rather than fall
“you could be long Circle…it's going to have an improvement and you could be long a crypto uncorrelated hedge”
90d -44.4% · 180d -55.3% · 1y -39.3%
Crypto Credit Markets Will Rewrite Risk Management | David Grider
2025-08-20
long Crypto Other / long VOL
hedge
Forward Guidance · video
Buying near-term calls on a levered VIX product provides cheap tail-risk protection that profits when crypto sells off alongside broad risk-off episodes, cushioning portfolio drawdowns without unwinding core digital asset longs
“those actually cushioned the downside of our portfolio because those calls we bought when crypto traded off”
Crypto Credit Markets Will Rewrite Risk Management | David Grider
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