Chat With Traders
Chat With Traders is your key to the minds of trading's elite performers. Start listening to learn how a diverse mix of traders went from zero to hero, how they successfully trade markets today, and get their best tips 'n pointers for profitable performance, plus much more. Note: You are responsible for your own trading decisions—this is not financial advice.
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089: Blake Morrow – From Ramen Noodles to a Luc...
Blake Morrow began as an equities trader during the mid-90's. Beyond trying times initially, Blake has been able to carve a lucrative career for himself and now participates solely in global forex markets. In this episode we discuss; his story, trading st
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088: Dave Lauer – A Former-High Frequency Trade...
Dave Lauer was previously a high frequency trader for firms such as Citadel and Allston Trading. Following the Flash Crash, Dave left HFT and he's now a market structure and best execution specialist, consulting to institutions and funds.
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087: Tom Sosnoff – Speaks on Life Experiences, ...
Tom was an options floor trader for 20 years, later going on to co-found thinkorswim—a widely popular online brokerage. After TD Ameritrade acquired the firm for approximately $606M, Tom started financial news show tastytrade.
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086: Jared Tendler – What Traders Can Learn Abo...
Jared is an internationally recognized mental game coach for world champion poker players, the #1 ranked pool player in the world, professional golfers, and more recently, traders too. Ultimately, he helps players to remove negative and excessive emotion
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085: Blair Hull – Know Your Edge, Exploit Your ...
Blair Hull is the former-founder of Hull Trading; a premier market-making firm which traded on 28 exchanges in 9 countries, with 250 employees. In 1999, Hull Trading was acquired by Goldman Sachs for $531M. Listening to Blair speak, it's clear, everything
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084: Yves Hilpisch – Quantitative Finance and P...
Dr. Yves Hilpisch is the founder of The Python Quants, a keynote speaker, and a three-time published author (most notably, Python For Finance). He regularly contracts to hedge funds, banks and exchanges, and hosts workshops on Python programming and algor
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083: Ryan Moffett – Getting Mentors, Starting a...
Ryan Moffett is the founder and Lead Investment Manager of Blackpier Capital—who trade complex options strategies. In this episode we discuss; how various mentors accelerated Ryan's career, how he started a fund and raised capital, plus the great benefi
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082: Futures Trader 71 – How to Become the Trad...
This episode, with FT71, goes deep into trader development and "how to learn" how to become a proficient trader. You'll also hear practical insight of how FT71 manages risk and bumpy times in the market, and considerations for getting setup with the right
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081: Alan Farley – Breaking Down Breakouts and ...
Alan is an renown swing trader, who actively trades US equities—occasionally, futures and forex markets too. In 2001, Alan released his first book The Master Swing Trader, and regularly writes for The Street and Investopedia. In this episode we discuss
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080: Anthony Crudele – One Traders Volatile Pat...
Anthony, a former-CME floor trader and host of Futures Radio Show, shares his volatile path to become a winning trader. It involves overcoming significant failure and loss, and later, greatly profitable earnings. You'll also hear a few tales from the pit
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079: Raoul Pal – The Biggest Financial Experime...
Raoul Pal previously worked at Goldman Sachs in hedge fund sales, and later launched the global macro fund for GLG (one of the largest hedge fund groups in the world). In this episode we discuss global macro themes, economic models, business cycles, and w
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078: Jack Schwager – The Making of Market Wizar...
Jack Schwager is the author of the acclaimed Market Wizards series, and the co-founder of FundSeeder. In this episode we discuss Jack's most memorable moments from interviewing elite traders, and some of the factors that place them in the top few percent
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077: Dennis Dick – How to be a Profitable Short...
Dennis is an equities day trader who is most active during the open. He's also a market structure analyst for Bright Trading and the co-host of Benzinga's PreMarket Prep. In this episode we discuss the advantages that still exist for hand traders in a hig
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076: Saul Knapp – Insight From a Former-Risk Ma...
Saul is an energy spread trader, a prop firm owner, and a former-risk manager. During this interview we discuss all three topics, plus how he got his start as a runner on the LIFFE exchange at 16yo.
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075: Dan Aisen – The Mechanics of a Dark Pool, ...
Dan Aisen is one of the co-founders of IEX, and one of Forbe's 30 Under 30 in Finance (2015). In this episode we discuss the mechanics of a dark pool, high-speed traders, and making markets "fair".
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074: John Walsh – Pocketing $100k From a Tradin...
John's a position trader from London, UK. In 2012 he won 1st place (and £100k prize money) in a City Index trading comp which was broadcast on national television. During out chat we discuss John's experience, his transition from being a day trader, his
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073: Charlie Bathgate – What to Emulate From Pr...
Charlie's been surrounded by professional traders ever since he came into this world—in this episode he shares many of his observations about what makes traders successful and how the best execute on a high level. Other topics discussed include; trading
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072: Rob, @DiscoveryTrader – Why Risk Managemen...
Rob is a pure order flow scalper, mostly active in US Treasury Futures. He embraces the idea of "gambling", but also places a huge importance on risk management (more so than anything else), which we discuss at lengths.
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071: Eric Hunsader – Rigged Markets, Stealing a...
Eric Hunsader from Nanex, is well-known for speaking out against the issues surrounding high frequency trading and how the big boys on Wall Street are exploiting gaps in the market micro-structure.
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070: Jeff Davis – Specializing, Automating and ...
Jeff specializes in the S&P futures, trading a mean reversion strategy built upon data and statistics. Throughout his career he's been heavily involved in developing and deploying algorithmic strategies.
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069: John Carter – How an Aggressive Trader Thi...
John's an options & futures trader, and has been involved in markets for 25 years. We discuss how he overcame boom 'n bust cycles, trader development, technical analysis, and his $1.4M trade on Tesla.
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068: Mikael Syding – From “Schoolyard Hippie” t...
Mikael's an ex-hedge fund manager & value investor, with interests in artificial intelligence and health 'n wellbeing. We discuss his top 3 lessons learnt from 15yrs in finance, risk management, how he spots growth opportunities in the market, and the way
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067: Jerry Parker – The Turtle Traders Story, F...
Jerry is one of the original Turtle Traders, a (somewhat secretive) trading group formed in the mid 80's under the guidance of a big-time commodities trader. Today, he remains the founder of Chesapeake Capital and a die-hard trend follower.
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066: Dan Shapiro – Blocking Excess Noise, Estab...
Dan is a day trader from NYC who will tell you what you need to hear (not what you want to hear). Learn how Dan was able to remove excess noise from the market and establish a trading process, plus his views on the current state of prop trading.
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065: Brett Steenbarger – How to Master Trading ...
High-profile trading psychology coach, Brett Steenbarger, shares: How to break bad trading habits and introduce new best practises, why traders must be adaptable, plus how to set and measure goals, and more...
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