Chat With Traders
484 episodes - English - Latest episode: 23 days ago - ★★★★★ - 1.9K ratingsChat 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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093: Ben, @BLB_Capital – What an Order Flow Fanatic Adapted From One of the 'Big Boys'
October 06, 2016 09:07 - 56 minutesWhat you’re about to hear is a conversation I had with a short-term futures trader, Ben—whose last name we won’t mention only for privacy reasons, but he goes by @BLB_Capital on Twitter. Before entering the market, Ben previously ran a construction company until an injury put him out of action for a period of time, which is when a friend got him interested in trading. Developing his craft over recent years, the bulk of Ben’s trading now revolves around order flow and he’s most active in Oil, ...
093: Ben (@BLB_Capital) – What an order flow fanatic adapted from one of the “big boys”
October 05, 2016 23:07 - 52 minutes - 73.6 MBWhat you’re about to hear is a conversation I had with a short-term futures trader, Ben—whose last name we won’t mention only for privacy reasons, but he goes by @BLB_Capital on Twitter. Before entering the market, Ben previously ran a construction company until an injury put him out of action for a period of time, which is when a friend got him interested in trading. Developing his craft over recent years, the bulk of Ben’s trading now revolves around order flow and he’s most active in Oi...
092: Dario Mofardin – Observing the Whole Board, Building a Body of Evidence, Swinging at Fat Pitches
September 29, 2016 09:21 - 1 hourFor this episode I spoke with fund manager, Dario Mofardin. Dario went from a finance degree, straight into a market analyst and then trader position at a private global macro hedge fund, during the early 90’s. He then went into investment banking for 13 years, working with mergers and acquisitions from various locations around the globe. And since 2008, Dario has been trading independently, but has recently begun trading external funds also. Some of the key points we chat about during this e...
092: Dario Mofardin – Observing the whole board, building a body of evidence, swinging at fat pitches
September 28, 2016 23:21 - 1 hour - 84.5 MBFor this episode I spoke with fund manager, Dario Mofardin. Dario went from a finance degree, straight into a market analyst and then trader position at a private global macro hedge fund, during the early 90’s. He then went into investment banking for 13 years, working with mergers and acquisitions from various locations around the globe. And since 2008, Dario has been trading independently, but has recently begun trading external funds also. Some of the key points we chat about during ...
091: Craig Scott – Trading Fundamentals, Sentiment and Events, and Why Conviction Matters
September 22, 2016 08:32 - 1 hourCraig Scott is someone who has been trading and investing for most of his life, first starting in school when he participated in a year long stock picking competition. Once completing a double major in finance and accounting, Craig spent many years as an auditor and an accountant, and later on, the entrepreneur within had him start and grow several businesses (doing similar things) along the way. As Craig describes his style of trading and investing; it’s a hybrid of fundamentals, momentum, s...
091: Craig Scott – Trading fundamentals, sentiment and events, and why conviction matters
September 21, 2016 22:32 - 1 hour - 90.1 MBCraig Scott is someone who has been trading and investing for most of his life, first starting in school when he participated in a year long stock picking competition. Once completing a double major in finance and accounting, Craig spent many years as an auditor and an accountant, and later on, the entrepreneur within had him start and grow several businesses (doing similar things) along the way. As Craig describes his style of trading and investing; it’s a hybrid of fundamentals, moment...
090: Michael Halls-Moore – This Quants' Approach to Designing Algo Strategies
September 15, 2016 09:47 - 1 hourFor this episode I’m joined by Michael Halls-Moore, who runs QuantStart.com—a site well-known by many algorithmic traders. Prior to trading, Michael studied computational fluid dynamics and was the co-founder of a tech startup, before getting involved a small equity fund as a quant developer—where his key role was cleansing data. Now, independently, Michael trades his own short-term algorithmic strategies, consults to hedge funds on machine learning and quant infrastructure, and also has a ke...
090: Michael Halls-Moore – This quants' approach to designing algo strategies
September 14, 2016 23:47 - 1 hour - 105 MBFor this episode I’m joined by Michael Halls-Moore, who runs QuantStart.com—a site well-known by many algorithmic traders. Prior to trading, Michael studied computational fluid dynamics and was the co-founder of a tech startup, before getting involved a small equity fund as a quant developer—where his key role was cleansing data. Now, independently, Michael trades his own short-term algorithmic strategies, consults to hedge funds on machine learning and quant infrastructure, and also has...
089: Blake Morrow – From Ramen Noodles to a Lucrative Career Trading Forex Markets
September 08, 2016 09:26 - 1 hourBlake Morrow (otherwise known as @PipCzar on Twitter) started out as a stock broker in 1995, but this only lasted for a short period of time, before becoming a trader… A wealthy friend put up $50,000 in starting capital, which Blake lost about $30,000 of it within the first six months. Though, before wiping out, Blake was able to turn that remaining $20,000 into roughly $1.5M in the next few years that followed. He’s since been involved in various trading and technology firms, but today, Blak...
089: Blake Morrow – From ramen noodles to a lucrative career trading Forex markets
September 07, 2016 23:26 - 1 hour - 108 MBBlake Morrow (otherwise known as @PipCzar on Twitter) started out as a stock broker in 1995, but this only lasted for a short period of time, before becoming a trader… A wealthy friend put up $50,000 in starting capital, which Blake lost about $30,000 of it within the first six months. Though, before wiping out, Blake was able to turn that remaining $20,000 into roughly $1.5M in the next few years that followed. He’s since been involved in various trading and technology firms, but today,...
088: Dave Lauer – A Former-High Frequency Trader Talks Speed, Market Structure and Dark Pools
September 01, 2016 08:16 - 1 hourDave Lauer is a former-high frequency trader for firms such as Citadel and Allston Trading. He’s worked specifically in various areas of the HFT pipeline, including; research and modelling, building hardware, and programming and operating strategies—which are measured in millionths of a second (or microseconds). Following the Flash Crash, Dave left his role as a trader (for various reasons we discuss during this episode) and now, as a partner of KOR Group, consults to institutional managers o...
088: Dave Lauer – A former-high frequency trader talks speed, market structure, and dark pools
August 31, 2016 22:16 - 1 hour - 85.1 MBDave Lauer is a former-high frequency trader for firms such as Citadel and Allston Trading. He’s worked specifically in various areas of the HFT pipeline, including; research and modelling, building hardware, and programming and operating strategies—which are measured in millionths of a second (or microseconds). Following the Flash Crash, Dave left his role as a trader (for various reasons we discuss during this episode) and now, as a partner of KOR Group, consults to institutional manager...
087: Tom Sosnoff – Speaks on Life Experiences, Trading Options, and Reaching Your Potential
August 25, 2016 08:22 - 1 hourThis week on the podcast, I spoke with Tom Sosnoff, who many of you will already know—he’s pretty close to a household name name in this industry. But if you don’t… Tom was a floor trader at the CBOE for 20 years, later going on to co-found thinkorswim—a widely popular online brokerage. In 2009, thinkorswim was sold to TD Ameritrade for approximately $606M, and Tom left the company shortly after to start financial news show, tastytrade. In this episode we hit on; the issue with being too risk...
087: Tom Sosnoff – Speaks on life experiences, trading options, and reaching your potential
August 24, 2016 22:22 - 58 minutes - 82.1 MBThis week on the podcast, I spoke with Tom Sosnoff, who many of you will already know—he’s pretty close to a household name name in this industry. But if you don’t… Tom was a floor trader at the CBOE for 20 years, later going on to co-found thinkorswim—a widely popular online brokerage. In 2009, thinkorswim was sold to TD Ameritrade for approximately $606M, and Tom left the company shortly after to start financial news show, tastytrade. In this episode we hit on; the issue with being too...
086: Jared Tendler – What Traders Can Learn About Mental Game, From a World Champion Poker Coach
August 18, 2016 08:41 - 1 hourJared Tendler is an internationally recognized mental game coach. His clients include world champion poker players, the #1 ranked pool player in the world, professional golfers, and more recently, traders too. If Jared was to summarize exactly what he does (and what he specializes in), it would be; removing negative and excessive emotion from decision making. So naturally, this serves as the underlying theme throughout our conversation, but we also discuss higher-level topics like; variance, ...
086: Jared Tendler – What traders can learn about mental game, from a world champion poker coach
August 17, 2016 22:41 - 1 hour - 119 MBJared Tendler is an internationally recognized mental game coach. His clients include world champion poker players, the #1 ranked pool player in the world, professional golfers, and more recently, traders too. If Jared was to summarize exactly what he does (and what he specializes in), it would be; removing negative and excessive emotion from decision making. So naturally, this serves as the underlying theme throughout our conversation, but we also discuss higher-level topics like; varia...
085: Blair Hull – Know Your Edge, Exploit Your Edge—Survive the Game
August 11, 2016 08:40 - 50 minutesBlair Hull has been labeled by Forbes as, “One of the most successful traders of the last 40 years,” and he was also profiled in Jack Schwager’s, The New Market Wizards. Prior to trading, Blair was a serious Blackjack player for 5-years during the 70’s. From there he took his winnings to the the Pacific Exchange to trade mispriced options, and in 1985, he founded one of the world’s premier market-making firms, Hull Trading. At its peak, Hull Trading was active on 28 exchanges in nine countrie...
085: Blair Hull – Know your edge, exploit your edge—survive the game
August 10, 2016 22:40 - 46 minutes - 65.8 MBBlair Hull has been labeled by Forbes as, “One of the most successful traders of the last 40 years,” and he was also profiled in Jack Schwager’s, The New Market Wizards. Prior to trading, Blair was a serious Blackjack player for 5-years during the 70’s. From there he took his winnings to the the Pacific Exchange to trade mispriced options, and in 1985, he founded one of the world’s premier market-making firms, Hull Trading. At its peak, Hull Trading was active on 28 exchanges in nine cou...
084: Yves Hilpisch – Quantitative Finance and Programming Trading Strategies w/ The Python Quants
August 04, 2016 09:18 - 1 hourThis episode features Dr. Yves Hilpisch—the founder of The Python Quants. TPQ do a lot of good for those involved in quantitative finance, they; frequently host meet-ups and workshops, have developed platforms and analytics libraries, and often contract to exchanges, banks and hedge funds for custom Python development. Yves is also a three-time published author, with his most notable title probably being “Python for Finance” which was released through O’Reilly. He regularly gives presentation...
084: Yves Hilpisch – Quantitative finance and programming trading strategies w/ The Python Quants
August 03, 2016 23:18 - 1 hour - 86.6 MBThis episode features Dr. Yves Hilpisch—the founder of The Python Quants. TPQ do a lot of good for those involved in quantitative finance, they; frequently host meet-ups and workshops, have developed platforms and analytics libraries, and often contract to exchanges, banks and hedge funds for custom Python development. Yves is also a three-time published author, with his most notable title probably being “Python for Finance” which was released through O’Reilly. He regularly gives present...
083: Ryan Moffett – Getting Mentors, Starting a Fund, and Deliberate Practice w/ Blackpier Capital
July 28, 2016 08:49 - 1 hourThe trader I interviewed for this episode is; Ryan Moffett from Blackpier Capital. Having been involved with markets for about 12 years now, Ryan has experience in trading, strategy design, portfolio construction and even alternative investments—all, while working for several firms (one of which, managed upwards of $2B). More recently though, Ryan’s ventured out to start a fund of his own, where he wears the badge of Lead Investment Manager. Some of the subjects we check off during this episo...
083: Ryan Moffett – Getting mentors, starting a fund, and deliberate practice w/ Blackpier Capital
July 27, 2016 22:49 - 1 hour - 88.9 MBThe trader I interviewed for this episode is; Ryan Moffett from Blackpier Capital. Having been involved with markets for about 12 years now, Ryan has experience in trading, strategy design, portfolio construction and even alternative investments—all, while working for several firms (one of which, managed upwards of $2B). More recently though, Ryan’s ventured out to start a fund of his own, where he wears the badge of Lead Investment Manager. Some of the subjects we check off during thi...
082: Futures Trader 71 – How to Become the Trader You Wish You Were
July 21, 2016 08:44 - 1 hourThis week, for the second time on Chat With Traders, my guest is Morad or better known as; Futures Trader 71. As you could imagine, FT is a futures trader, he’s also very short-term and has been trading for about 16 years now. During this time, he was the founder of a successful prop firm and more recently, has started a brokerage; Stage 5 Trading. First time around (on episode 37) we spoke extensively about FT’s path of becoming a trader, market profile and volume profile, and creating a leg...
082: Futures Trader 71 – How to become the trader you wish you were
July 20, 2016 22:44 - 1 hour - 121 MBThis week, for the second time on Chat With Traders, my guest is Morad or better known as; Futures Trader 71. As you could imagine, FT is a futures trader, he’s also very short-term and has been trading for about 16 years now. During this time, he was the founder of a successful prop firm and more recently, has started a brokerage; Stage 5 Trading. First time around (on episode 37) we spoke extensively about FT’s path of becoming a trader, market profile and volume profile, and creating ...
081: Alan Farley – Breaking Down Breakouts and Dynamics of Price Movement, with The Master Swing Trader
July 14, 2016 09:39 - 1 hourOur guest this week is Alan Farley, who took his first trades in the late-80’s. Alan is an active swing trader, and most of his positions take place in the US equity market—although he occasionally trades index futures and currencies too. In 2001, Alan released his first book, The Master Swing Trader, which may be the best-selling book on the subject). He’s also a regular contributor to The Street and Investopedia, having written hundreds of articles over the years. Subjects you’ll hear about...
081: Alan Farley – Breaking down breakouts and dynamics of price movement, with The Master Swing Trader
July 13, 2016 23:39 - 1 hour - 94.3 MBOur guest this week is Alan Farley, who took his first trades in the late-80’s. Alan is an active swing trader, and most of his positions take place in the US equity market—although he occasionally trades index futures and currencies too. In 2001, Alan released his first book, The Master Swing Trader, which may be the best-selling book on the subject). He’s also a regular contributor to The Street and Investopedia, having written hundreds of articles over the years. Subjects you’ll hea...
080: Anthony Crudele – One Traders Volatile Path From (Below) Zero to Hero, and Beyond
July 07, 2016 08:14 - 1 hourAnthony Crudele started at a very young age on the CME floor, and he has one really interesting story about coming up as a trader… It does involve some pretty drastic failures, burning through significant amounts of cash, and a whole lot of perseverance. But, he eventually broke through and went on to have years of making six and seven-figures, while heavily trading the E-Mini S&P 500 from it’s inception. In our chat, you’ll hear about Anthony’s multiple blowouts and comebacks, his turning po...
080: Anthony Crudele – One traders volatile path from (below) zero to hero, and beyond
July 06, 2016 22:14 - 1 hour - 89.5 MBAnthony Crudele started at a very young age on the CME floor, and he has one really interesting story about coming up as a trader… It does involve some pretty drastic failures, burning through significant amounts of cash, and a whole lot of perseverance. But, he eventually broke through and went on to have years of making six and seven-figures, while heavily trading the E-Mini S&P 500 from it’s inception. In our chat, you’ll hear about Anthony’s multiple blowouts and comebacks, his turni...
079: Raoul Pal – The Biggest Financial Experiment the World has Ever Seen, Explained by a Global Macro Investor
June 30, 2016 08:39 - 1 hourRaoul Pal has a history rooted in the hedge fund industry, and with him, he carries more than 25+ years of experience in financial markets. For a number of years he worked at Goldman Sachs where he co-managed the hedge fund sales business in equities and equity derivatives. He later moved on to GLG, one of the largest hedge fund groups in the world, where he launched their global macro fund in London. Today, Raoul no longer manages client money but continues to invest his own. He also writes ...
079: Raoul Pal – The biggest financial experiment the world has ever seen, explained by a global macro investor
June 29, 2016 22:39 - 1 hour - 94.1 MBRaoul Pal has a history rooted in the hedge fund industry, and with him, he carries more than 25+ years of experience in financial markets. For a number of years he worked at Goldman Sachs where he co-managed the hedge fund sales business in equities and equity derivatives. He later moved on to GLG, one of the largest hedge fund groups in the world, where he launched their global macro fund in London. Today, Raoul no longer manages client money but continues to invest his own. He also wr...
078: Jack Schwager – The making of Market Wizards, and wisdom from elite traders
June 22, 2016 23:04 - 1 hour - 127 MBAs I’m sure you already well aware, Jack Schwager has been involved with financial markets for many years, he’s the author of the acclaimed Market Wizards series and others, and he’s also the co-founder of FundSeeder. During our talk, we go behind the scenes of the Market Wizards and Jack shares his experiences from conducting interviews with trading royalty and some of his most memorable moments. Of course, I ask Jack to flesh out some of the great knowledge he’s learned from this—disc...
078: Jack Schwager – The Making of Market Wizards, and Wisdom From Elite Traders
June 22, 2016 23:04 - 1 hourAs I’m sure you already well aware, Jack Schwager has been involved with financial markets for many years, he’s the author of the acclaimed Market Wizards series and others, and he’s also the co-founder of FundSeeder. During our talk, we go behind the scenes of the Market Wizards and Jack shares his experiences from conducting interviews with trading royalty and some of his most memorable moments. Of course, I ask Jack to flesh out some of the great knowledge he’s learned from this—discussing...
077: Dennis Dick – How to be a Profitable Short-Term Trader in a High Frequency World
June 16, 2016 08:09 - 1 hourYou’re about to hear a really interesting conversation I had with Dennis Dick. Dennis first started out meddling with penny stocks, before soon joining a well-established prop firm known as; Bright Trading—this was in the late 90’s. To this day Dennis remains with the same firm, still as an active short-term equities trader, but also as their Market Structure Analyst. If his voice sounds familiar, that’s probably because he’s the co-host of Benzinga’s PreMarket Prep live morning show too. Som...
077: Dennis Dick – How to be a profitable short-term trader in a high frequency world
June 15, 2016 22:09 - 1 hour - 94.8 MBYou’re about to hear a really interesting conversation I had with Dennis Dick. Dennis first started out meddling with penny stocks, before soon joining a well-established prop firm known as; Bright Trading—this was in the late 90’s. To this day Dennis remains with the same firm, still as an active short-term equities trader, but also as their Market Structure Analyst. If his voice sounds familiar, that’s probably because he’s the co-host of Benzinga’s PreMarket Prep live morning show too...
076: Saul Knapp – Insight From a Former-Risk Manager of 120+ Prop Traders, and Spread Trading
June 09, 2016 09:35 - 46 minutesOur featured guest for this weeks interview is, Saul Knapp. Saul originally started out as a runner on the floor of the LIFFE exchange (in London), when he was just 16 years old. Later moving on from there, he’s had various roles as a risk manager for proprietary trading firms, at times, monitoring positions for as many as 120+ traders. Today, Saul lives in Spain where he runs a small prop firm of his own. In regard to how he trades, Saul is a spread trader who’s most active in the energy mar...
076: Saul Knapp – Insight from a former-risk manager of 120+ prop traders, and spread trading
June 08, 2016 23:35 - 42 minutes - 60.3 MBOur featured guest for this weeks interview is, Saul Knapp. Saul originally started out as a runner on the floor of the LIFFE exchange (in London), when he was just 16 years old. Later moving on from there, he’s had various roles as a risk manager for proprietary trading firms, at times, monitoring positions for as many as 120+ traders. Today, Saul lives in Spain where he runs a small prop firm of his own. In regard to how he trades, Saul is a spread trader who’s most active in the energ...
075: Dan Aisen – The Mechanics of a Dark Pool, and a Quest to Make Markets “Fair” w/ IEX Co-Founder
June 02, 2016 07:02 - 1 hourFor this episode, I had the great pleasure of speaking with Dan Aisen—one of the co-founders of IEX, and one of Forbes’ 30 Under 30 in Finance (2015). Dan got his start at RBC where he developed their flagship execution algorithm, THOR. This was also where he met and worked under Brad Katsuyama—one of the other co-founders and CEO of IEX, who was heavily profiled in Flash Boys. As many of you may already know, IEX is an Alternative Trading System (ATS), or more commonly referred to as a dark ...
075: Dan Aisen – The mechanics of a dark pool, and a quest to make markets “fair” (with the co-founder of IEX)
June 01, 2016 21:02 - 1 hour - 88.8 MBFor this episode, I had the great pleasure of speaking with Dan Aisen—one of the co-founders of IEX, and one of Forbes’ 30 Under 30 in Finance (2015). Dan got his start at RBC where he developed their flagship execution algorithm, THOR. This was also where he met and worked under Brad Katsuyama—one of the other co-founders and CEO of IEX, who was heavily profiled in Flash Boys. As many of you may already know, IEX is an Alternative Trading System (ATS), or more commonly referred to as a...
074: John Walsh – Pocketing $100k From a Trading Comp, and Making Simplicity a Priority w/ the Black Cabbie Trader
May 26, 2016 08:43 - 47 minutesMy guest this week is John Walsh, aka The Black Cabbie Trader. The backstory of John; in 2012 he entered a competition—the City Index Trading Academy. The idea was to take a group of people with very little market experience to see how well they would perform as active traders, over the span of 5 weeks. John came out on top and won the £100,000 prize money which was up for grabs. He’s of course continued trading ever since, and has developed into quite the trend/position trader—focused on US ...
074: John Walsh – Pocketing $100k from a trading comp, and making simplicity a priority w/ the Black Cabbie Trader
May 25, 2016 22:43 - 44 minutes - 62.2 MBMy guest this week is John Walsh, aka The Black Cabbie Trader. The backstory of John; in 2012 he entered a competition—the City Index Trading Academy. The idea was to take a group of people with very little market experience to see how well they would perform as active traders, over the span of 5 weeks. John came out on top and won the £100,000 prize money which was up for grabs. He’s of course continued trading ever since, and has developed into quite the trend/position trader—focused o...
073: Charlie Bathgate – What to Emulate From Pro Traders, Humility, Psychology and Biohacking
May 19, 2016 08:25 - 1 hourFor Charlie Bathgate, trading has been a part of his life since as far back as he can remember—his father was an options market maker, and not to mention his brothers and sister work major-roles in the industry too. Today, Charlie is a partner and the CEO of two operations; Sang Lucci and Flammarion. Sang Lucci being a provider of trader education, and Flammarion being a hedge fund (which mostly consists of automated traders). We had an awesome chat, speaking about; his observations from work...
073: Charlie Bathgate – What to emulate from pro traders, humility, psychology and biohacking
May 18, 2016 22:25 - 1 hour - 89 MBFor Charlie Bathgate, trading has been a part of his life since as far back as he can remember—his father was an options market maker, and not to mention his brothers and sister work major-roles in the industry too. Today, Charlie is a partner and the CEO of two operations; Sang Lucci and Flammarion. Sang Lucci being a provider of trader education, and Flammarion being a hedge fund (which mostly consists of automated traders). We had an awesome chat, speaking about; his observations from...
072: Rob, @DiscoveryTrader – Why Risk Management is King, and Why Gambling Isn't Such a Dirty Word
May 12, 2016 09:36 - 1 hourThis weeks guest preferred to remain somewhat anonymous, although his name is Rob – others know him as RG, and he’s a part of Discovery Trading Group. Rob is an active futures traders and is what most people would call a pure scalper, but he refers to himself as a “street level gambler with an appetite for risk”. Either way, he is very short-term and often just trading for a couple ticks at a time. So that’s one side of what he does, the other side, Rob is also involved in a quantitative rese...
072: Rob (@DiscoveryTrader) – Why risk management is king, and why gambling isn't such a dirty word
May 11, 2016 23:36 - 1 hour - 99.9 MBThis weeks guest preferred to remain somewhat anonymous, although his name is Rob – others know him as RG, and he’s a part of Discovery Trading Group. Rob is an active futures traders and is what most people would call a pure scalper, but he refers to himself as a “street level gambler with an appetite for risk”. Either way, he is very short-term and often just trading for a couple ticks at a time. So that’s one side of what he does, the other side, Rob is also involved in a quantitative r...
071: Eric Hunsader – Rigged Markets, Stealing and Corrupt Regulators w/ Founder of Nanex
May 05, 2016 09:20 - 1 hourA big guest on the podcast this week—a man who for many won’t need any introduction, he is; Eric Scott Hunsader. Eric started out as an algorithmic trader in the early 80’s, soon after became a self-taught programmer, and since then he’s written many software applications for financial data. But today, Eric is the founder of Nanex, a whole market streaming data feed, which transmits 20 billion data points every day. Well-known for speaking out against the many issues that surround high freque...
071: Eric Hunsader – Rigged markets, stealing, and corrupt regulators (with the founder of Nanex)
May 04, 2016 23:20 - 1 hour - 83.7 MBA big guest on the podcast this week—a man who for many won’t need any introduction, he is; Eric Scott Hunsader. Eric started out as an algorithmic trader in the early 80’s, soon after became a self-taught programmer, and since then he’s written many software applications for financial data. But today, Eric is the founder of Nanex, a whole market streaming data feed, which transmits 20 billion data points every day. Well-known for speaking out against the many issues that surround high f...
070: Jeff Davis – Specializing, Automating and Using Stats for High Probability Trade Setups
April 28, 2016 08:46 - 1 hourJeff is a day trader who specializes in the S&P futures, and predominately trades a mean-reversion strategy which is built upon data and statistical probabilities. Across his 20+ year trading career, Jeff has also been heavily involved in the process of developing and deploying algorithmic strategies—but slightly less these days. In this interview we talk about Jeff’s prop days, risks of being a one-man-business, automated trading, specializing, statistics, and more. From this conversation, I...
070: Jeff Davis – Specializing, automating, and using stats for high probability trade setups
April 27, 2016 22:46 - 1 hour - 103 MBJeff is a day trader who specializes in the S&P futures, and predominately trades a mean-reversion strategy which is built upon data and statistical probabilities. Across his 20+ year trading career, Jeff has also been heavily involved in the process of developing and deploying algorithmic strategies—but slightly less these days. In this interview we talk about Jeff’s prop days, risks of being a one-man-business, automated trading, specializing, statistics, and more. From this conversa...
069: John Carter – How an Aggressive Trader Thinks, Uses Options and Made $1.4M on a Single Tesla Trade
April 21, 2016 08:39 - 1 hourWelcome back for another installment of the Chat With Traders podcast. I’ve got an awesome guest lined up for you, John Carter, from Austin Texas. In short; John is an options trader (and also futures, to a slightly lesser extent), he’s been trading for around about 25 years now. His typical holding time for any given trade is just a couple days, and he classifies himself as an aggressive trader – which I think you’ll pick up on pretty quickly. In this interview, you’ll hear I ask John about ...
069: John Carter – How an aggressive trader thinks, uses options, and made $1.4M on a single Tesla trade
April 20, 2016 22:39 - 1 hour - 89.8 MBWelcome back for another installment of the Chat With Traders podcast. I’ve got an awesome guest lined up for you, John Carter, from Austin Texas. In short; John is an options trader (and also futures, to a slightly lesser extent), he’s been trading for around about 25 years now. His typical holding time for any given trade is just a couple days, and he classifies himself as an aggressive trader – which I think you’ll pick up on pretty quickly. In this interview, you’ll hear I ask John a...