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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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,
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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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Q5: Max Margenot – Good (and Not So Good) Uses ...
CWT x Quantopian Pt. 5 – Machine learning is a hot topic right now, with a lot of people wondering how it could be used in trading. Used naively, machine learning poses a great deal of risk. During this episode, we’ll discuss why that’s the case and
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103: Dave Bergstrom – Escaping Randomness, and ...
Dave's a quant, working at a high frequency trading firm. In this episode, he shares "three laws" for developing trading strategies, how to mine data for an edge—with minimal curve-fitting, why most traders hold unrealistic expectations, and how to esca
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Q4: Scott Sanderson – Portfolio Optimization: R...
CWT x Quantopian Pt. 4 – When one has a price model that they think will work well for forecasting returns, the next step is to actually trade it. This isn’t that simple for a variety of reasons. For one thing, you need to...
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102: Eugene Soltes – Unraveling a $65-Billion P...
Eugene's an author and finance professor at Harvard Business School. He's also gotten to know many of the biggest 'n baddest financial villains of our time (including Bernie Madoff) and understand their motives for 'why they do it'.
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Q3: Jonathan Larkin – Seeking Alpha? Try MORE A...
CWT x Quantopian Pt. 3 – In practice, no one trading model will ever be that good on its own. Luckily statistics has come up with a lot of theory about how you can combine weaker models to create better overall predictions. We’ll discuss how to combin
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101: Siam Kidd – Latching Onto Trends, Strategi...
Siam Kidd is a currency trend trader, investor and serial entrepreneur. In this episode, we got to chat about Siam's shaky beginnings, how he manages risk on a low win rate strategy, reasons for going into business, his grand scheme to improve the educati
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Q2: Jessica Stauth – Seeking Alpha? Try Alpha F...
CWT x Quantopian Pt. 2 – This episode introduces the notion of alpha and risk factors at a high level, and delves into some of the use cases which include: turning ideas for price forecasting into encapsulated alpha factors, and more.
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100: Bao, @Modern_Rock – Overcome Adversity, Do...
Bao's an independent day trader who's experienced his fair share of adversity in life. But with an undeniable will to succeed, he's generated the type of trading profits that very few are able to achieve. We discuss; how he found his niche—how you can f
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Q1: Delaney Mackenzie – You Don’t Know How Wron...
CWT x Quantopian Pt. 1 – The worst case in trading is when you think you’re right, but you’re actually wrong. This can be especially dangerous when you’ve used some methodology or statistics to justify a decision, but are unaware of all the subtle
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