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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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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099: Brynne Kelly – What Happens on a Merchant ...
Brynne is an energy trader who’s spent the majority of her career on merchant trading desks (for the likes of BP)—she's also been a prop trader and experienced as a hedge fund portfolio manager. Key topics: how she taught, trained and managed newer tr
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098: Peter To – How Successful Day Trading Can ...
Peter To started as an online poker player before pursuing day trader; he shares first-hand experience of the prop trading industry, and why a nihilistic approach to market speculation can sometimes be rewarding...
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097: Derek Wong – How to Think About Strategies...
Derek is the Director of Systematic Trading & Options at a private fund in Shanghai. We talk; emerging markets, cultural differences of Chinese investors, convergent/divergent strategies, slightly unconventional ways of thinking, what to focus on after be
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096: Nico, @InefficientMrkt – An Eight Year Ove...
Nico is an active day trader, predominately focused on low-priced stocks which have a tendency to move fast and far, with a motivating story that many independent traders will connect with.
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095: Adrian, @AdeyF69 – Why it Pays to be Relen...
After discussing the life of a pro sailor, torturous sleeping patterns and run-ins with pirates, Adrian shares; how he takes a process driven approach to trading futures, how he uses statistics for a greater edge, and the way he critiques his performance.
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094: Kenny Glick – Shady Tales From a Real-Life...
Kenny is a former-stand up comedian, turned questionable stockbroker, turned day trader. In this episode, we discuss; real stories comparable to scenes from the Boiler Room movie, day trading and swing trading strategies, actionable chunks of wisdom, plus
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093: Ben, @BLB_Capital – What an Order Flow Fan...
Ben, @BLB_Capital, is a short-term futures trader whose core strategy revolves around order flow. We discuss, what he emulated from a large bond trader who he was trained by, how he utilizes automation, traders who suffer from right-to-left syndrome, and
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092: Dario Mofardin – Observing the Whole Board...
Dario is a global macro trader and fund manager, working in capital markets since the early 90's. In this episode, Dario shares how he forms a big-picture thesis and then trades the "fat pitches"—from entry to exit.
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091: Craig Scott – Trading Fundamentals, Sentim...
Craig is a trader and investor whose methods are conventionally unconventional, in the sense, Craig never trades off of charts—instead, he makes decisions based on fundamentals, sentiment and events. In this episode we talk; strategy, stocks, options, w
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090: Michael Halls-Moore – This Quants' Approac...
Michael's trading career began inside an equity quant fund, but today, he independently trades short-term algorithmic strategies and consults to hedge funds on machine learning. In this episode, we cover; the value of quality data, portfolio risk control,
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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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