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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128: Andy Kershner – Risk Tolerance, Daily Habi...
Andy, the founder of Kershner Trading Group, speaks about varying risk tolerances and taking pain on adverse positions, trading size, daily habits which contribute to trading success, and why profitable trading goes against natural instincts.
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127: Nell Sloane – Becoming a CTA—How to Begin ...
Nell Sloane, of Capital Trading Group, explains how traders can expand their operation to begin managing money for others—as a commodity trading advisor. Discussing everything from getting started, fee structures, track records, infrastructure, regulati
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125: Matthew Hoyle – Getting Hired—Who Trading ...
Matthew Hoyle, one of the industry's top headhunters, shares tips for getting hired, the skills most in demand, what firms are looking for, how different places attract and retain talent, various compensation structures, and everything in between!
57 min
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124: Max, @Madaznfootballr – When Chasing a Qui...
With an appetite for fast money, it was only a matter of time before Max tried his hand at day trading. It all started with a $6,000 account, and it's now his livelihood—actively scalping the NASDAQ. Hear how Max has developed a unique method, to become
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123: Darren Reed – Grit, Hustle, Intent—and Env...
Darren Reed, a proprietary trader and mentor to developing traders, talks on; paying your dues, why environment is everything, a window into the life of a discretionary prop trader, and why those in trader development roles have a great responsibility to
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122: Doug Cifu – Virtu: Hitting Singles All Day...
Doug Cifu, co-founder of Virtu and co-owner of Florida Panthers, speaks about; the simple philosophy that fueled large-scale growth for his global market making operation, "hitting singles" and the law of large numbers, and a few words for reaching high l
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121: Michael Mauboussin – Tactics for Better De...
Michael's widely-recognized as a thought leader on decision making, the concept of process over outcome and differentiating skill versus luck. Listening to this interview, you'll gain solid tactics for how to improve your decision making ability as a trad
54 min
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120: Meb Faber – A Crash Course in Long-Term In...
Meb Faber, co-founder and CIO of Cambria Investment Management, shares tactics for how active traders can also grow wealth through passive long-term investing. Treat this as a crash course in Investing 101—we discuss; where to start out, expectations an
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119: Alex, @TAGRtrades – What This Day Trader L...
Alex, a 27-year old day trader from Texas, reflects on the key lessons he's learned from four years of full-time trading. Plus; his methods for trading the momentum of fast-moving stocks, managing positions (and risk!) and effective journaling practises.
59 min
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118: Manoj Narang – Trading Technology, Alterna...
Manoj Narang, founder of Tradeworx and MANA Partners, talks on high-speed trading and the nature of competition, the greater value of trading technology, capitalizing on alternative data, plus why aspiring traders should be willing to buck the trend and t
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117: Larry Alintoff – Traders' Opportunity—When...
Larry's been a prop trader for Paul Tudor Jones, ran a 50+ person group on the AMEX, and became the largest trader in the Frozen Concentrated Orange Juice pit. Now, he's CIO of The Toro Fund. Larry shares how traders can realize serious opportunity from f
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116: Sean Hendelman – Taking Losses, Ultimately...
T3 co-founder, Sean Hendelman, explains why losing all his money (twice!) was a worthwhile experience, where he sees challenges for certain traders, and the need to continually keep pace with markets.
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115: Adam Grimes – What Hand Traders Can Learn ...
Trader, Adam Grimes speaks on; the value of human discretion, but also the power of a scientific framework, and how both can be combined for a greater trading edge. Adam also lays out an action plan for how struggling traders can improve and move forward.
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114: Brannigan Barrett – The Process of Becomin...
Brannigan's a proprietary futures trader—who's active in bonds, equity indices, currencies and commodities. In this episode, we cover; how to progressively improve as an active trader, what makes a brilliant risk manager, trading major news announcement
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113: Benjamin Small – Normalizing Bitcoin, and ...
Benjamin's head of market structure at Gemini exchange. In this episode, we chat about all things Bitcoin and the broader cryptocurrency ecosystem—from normalizing Bitcoin to unique trading opportunities, sketchy altcoins to becoming a cashless society,
57 min
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112: Jorge Soltero – Reminiscences of a Trader ...
Jorge started out as an options market maker—in various trading pits, and later transitioned to institutional trading. He's traded for Hull Trading Co., Goldman Sachs, UBS and Merrill Lynch. We discuss pit culture, working at Hull, transitioning to elec
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111: David Bush – Strategy Objectives, Statisti...
David's been a trader for 20+ years, and he's also the first place winner of two (real money) trading competitions. On this episode, we discuss how to think about objectives for trading strategies, statistical significance, market behavior and the power o
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110: George, @RollyTrader – Learning to Trade, ...
George is an independent trader and venture capitalist, living in Australia. He shares lessons passed onto him from top performing traders, how he trades momentum, and how he got into venture capital.
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109: Edward Thorp – The Man Who Beat the Dealer...
The incredible true story of the card-counting mathematics professor who taught the world how to beat the dealer and, as the first of the great quantitative investors, ushered in a revolution on Wall Street.
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Q6: Delaney Mackenzie – Your Quantitative Tradi...
CWT x Quantopian Pt. 6 – Throughout this series, which has been a window into the workflow of professional quant trading firms, we’ve encouraged you to submit questions and requests for more context. Here are the answers!
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108: John Netto – Being a Versatile and Adaptab...
John Netto, a former U.S. marine, describes himself as a high velocity, cross-asset class trader. He connects the ability to be versatile, adaptable, and interpret large amounts of information to be his greatest edge—for making lucrative returns.
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107: Anthony Saliba – A 40-Year Trading Career ...
Anthony began as a floor trader at the CBOE, made millions before 30yo, and developed a large-scale options training program. Now, parallel to an admirable trading career, Anthony's an almighty entrepreneur with interests in hedge funds, a golf resort, an
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106: Turney Duff – A Wall Street Trader’s Tale ...
Turney's a former Galleon Group trader, who managed billion dollar portfolios. His time on Wall Street can be described as; a cocktail of drugs, alcohol, sex, money and power. Listening to our chat you'll hear about Turney's rapid rise to the top and how
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105: Brendan Poots – How a Former Punter Pionee...
Brendan founded The Priomha Group; a hedge fund betting on football games, golf tournaments, horse racing, tennis and cricket matches. We discuss how Brendan runs his operation, the key drivers of the funds success and steady returns, and what you can lea
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104: Alex, @AT09_Trader – An Appetite For Risk,...
Alex; a discretionary day trader with an appetite for risk. We got talking about recent momentum in the shipping sector, how Alex trades "sympathy plays" and other scenarios, the affects of an obsessive personality, and his venture into real estate—flip
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