Mind Over Money
69 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsThe psychology of investing has become such an important area of research that major hedge funds are building trading strategies around human behavioral patterns. In Mind Over Money, Kevin Cook explores the crossroads where markets and brains collide, delving into the two sciences – neuroscience and behavioral finance – that show why investors are often highly irrational when faced with economic decisions, uncertainty, and risk.
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FinTech Insights From the Experts: FT Partners' Steve McLaughlin
March 02, 2023 19:39 - 36 minutes - 84 MBExuberance for Bitcoin, BNPL, and daytrading saw valuations soar in 2021 and now it's time to sift the wreckage (0:30) - Rise Of FinTech: FT Partners Maps the Money Flow (7:40) - Where Are the FinTech IPOs? (14:20) - How Do Private Companies Navigate A Down Round? (20:10) - What Are VC Investors Looking for in FinTech? (30:40) - Crypto Speculation vs. Long-Term FinTech Investment Mind Over Money Archive [email protected]
Crash of the iBuyers: Housing Markets Feel the Hangover
January 23, 2023 20:40 - 44 minutes - 101 MBThe so-called "instant" home buyers added good liquidity and fast options that will be missed by some (1:00) - iBuyer Impact On the Housing Market (8:00) - Are the iBuyers Over and Done? (11:35) - Home Builder Trends for Investors (23:50) - Impact of Rising Interest Rates on New Buyers/Investors? (33:15) - Finding Trends: Where Should Investors Research RE Markets? (40:45) - Where's the Housing Market Heading in 2023? [email protected]
The College Investor: Road Maps To Flipping Debt Into Wealth Plans
June 30, 2022 17:28 - 24 minutes - 56.9 MBRobert Farrington has been on a mission for over a decade to turn Millennials into Millionaires (1:30) - Robert Farrington: The Millennial Money Expert (5:10) - Learning To Invest at a Young Age: Where Should You Start? (9:45) - How Much Do You Need To Save Per Year To Reach a Million Dollars? (14:20) - Never Too Late To Start Investing: Balancing Now and Your Future (19:30) - Creating a Plan That Works For You: Understanding Needs, Wants, Goals [email protected]
Advice for Gen Z & Millennial Investors On Bear Markets in Stocks & Crypto
June 23, 2022 17:42 - 42 minutes - 97.3 MBI wish I knew a tenth of what Zechariah knows about investing when I was in my 20s (1:30) - How Financial Advisors Guide Investors for Long-Term Planning (8:25) - What Can Crypto Bear Markets Teach Gen Z About the Stock Market? (12:00) - Zechariah Schaefer’s Approach to Financial Planning (20:15) - The Fiduciary Duties of an Advice-Only Planner: Step By Step Process (34:40) - Lessons from the Fictional Pan Ickseller (Panic Seller) on TikTok [email protected]
Crypto and Blockchain Get a Gut Check on Risk and Stability
May 18, 2022 18:10 - 43 minutes - 98.7 MBRisk management is not a science and still fully subject to the whims of human emotion and the madness of crowds (2:00) - Collapse Of TerraUSD & Luna: A Threat To the Blockchain? (17:30) - Staking and Yield Farming: FinTech and DeFi Innovations (23:40) - The Wild Wild West of Crypto: Whence Cometh Law and Order? (28:30) - The Future of the Newest Fiat Asset Class (33:15) - Will Michael Saylor Be Pushed Out of His Bitcoin Investment? (38:45) - Bitcoin Bear Market Impact On Square and P...
Get Your Money Game in Top Shape with Mark Harvey, the MoneyPlan Coach
May 12, 2022 23:14 - 44 minutes - 101 MBIn the jungle of personal finance advice, the best offense is a great set of tools that clarify and inspire action (1:00) - Against the Gods: Probability 101 (8:30) - 3 Biggest Mistakes People Make with Their Finances (15:15) - The Inspiration Behind The Harvest Plan (25:30) - Power of a Comprehensive Calculation Engine for Personal Finance (32:30) - Tools Inside The Harvest Plan: NASA for Your Retirement Horizon (40:15) - The Evil Science of Credit Cards [email protected]
Value Stocks vs. Ridiculously Over-Valued Stocks
February 24, 2022 21:06 - 35 minutes - 80.3 MBMind Over Money welcomes back portfolio manager Nathan Miller of Emles Advisors to get our investing battle plans locked and loaded (1:00) - Getting Short Ridiculously Overvalued Companies (7:20) - The Economic Cycle: Where Are We Currently At? (13:45) - Emles Alpha Opportunities ETF (EOPS): Top Value Plays (27:35) - What's the Outlook After This Correction? [email protected]
Finding Value in a Sea of Bubbles: Stocks to Win When the Cloud Bursts
September 10, 2021 15:37 - 40 minutes - 93.5 MBBefore Tech Bubble 2.0 pops, investors have a great place to grow besides cash (1:25) - How Avoiding Technology Stocks Built a Strong Value Model (6:35) - Imagine Buying RH at $25 and Still Seeing Growth Ahead (14:00) - What's Driving Signet Jewelers Shares? (17:15) - How Brick and Mortar Thrives in an E-commerce World (22:30) - Emles Alpha Opportunities ETF: EOPS (26:45) - The Coming Inflection Point: Tech Bubble vs. Value-Growth (33:00) - Keeping His Shorts on a Short Leash.....
ESG Investing and Global Poverty: How Can We Help?
August 18, 2021 19:29 - 43 minutes - 99.7 MBClimate science suggests that economic conditions for world's poorest countries will implode (1:00) - Haiti’s Struggle for Stability and Economic Progress (11:30) - Development Challenges: Bangladesh in Focus (23:40) - Can ESG Investing Preserve the Planet? (33:30) - Attracting Direct Investors Via Econ Dev Zones (41:30) - Episode Roundup: [email protected] Mind Over Money Archive
EV Trucks: Will They Fly?
July 28, 2021 18:58 - 41 minutes - 95.6 MBWhile I believe the F-150 Lightning is a game-changer, there are skeptics about America's readiness for quiet, efficient workhorses (1:00) - How Disruptive are Electric Vehicles? (8:45) - Can the Ford F-150 Lighting Outsell the Tesla Cybertruck? (20:00) - Who Will Be The Top EV Truck Competitors? (31:10) - Ford’s Advantage In Europe and CaaS (39:50) - Dave Bartosiak on the Slow-Motion EV Revolution [email protected] Mind Over Money Archive
Flight Plan for Trading: Market Lessons from My Pilot Dad
April 14, 2021 18:04 - 19 minutes - 44.5 MBLearning to fly an airplane can build an excellent structured thought process for navigating markets (1:05) - What Could Investors Learn from Aviation? (7:50) - Lessons from a Pilot: Preparation & Planning (14:00) - Tribute to a Maverick [email protected]
Inflation Perfect Storm: The Fed's Dual Conundrum
February 26, 2021 17:58 - 40 minutes - 92.6 MBAs inflation takes off, the Fed may be trapped to let it run very hot just to get employment back (1:30) - Centrifugal Force: Markets Coil Then Jump (9:20) - Big Move In Bonds: Financial Plumbing Pressures (15:10) - Richly-Valued Growth Stocks Overdue to Correct (20:40) - GameStop Stock Surges Again: How a Pro Traded It (24:15) - Stimulus + Growth + Inflation = Commodity Prices Rising (29:00) - Technical Targets for the Nasdaq 100 (37:00) - Good Lessons For New Investors are Ev...
5 Best ETFs for Young Investors
February 10, 2021 21:43 - 46 minutes - 105 MBAs more young investors take up day trading, I have an important recipe for long-term wealth creation (0:45) - How Cathie Put the Wood to Wall Street (10:30) - 5 Core ETFs for Long-Term Wealth Creation (16:15) - Best Options for Investing in Biotechnology (24:20) - How to Buy Entire Stock Market in One Trade (27:45) - Next-Generation Nasdaq Companies (31:15) - Zacks ETF Portfolio Trends and Winners (38:20) - Robotics and AI: A Simple Way to Own the Future [email protected] Mind...
Shop-From-Home Winners: How Pandemic Crisis Breeds Adaptation
December 09, 2020 18:56 - 33 minutes - 77.5 MBE-commerce technology and behavior drive each other in a never-ending innovation feedback loop. (1:45) - Digital Acceleration: Forever Impacts on Retail (5:05) - Tapestry, Capri, StichFix: Learning from Tony Hsieh (12:40) - ULTA and RH: Adapting to Their Customers (17:50) - Shopify and BIGC Guide Brands to E-Comm Nirvana (28:10) - Great Winter Coats... for Everybody This Season? (32:15) - Episode Roundup: [email protected]
Throne of Games: How NVIDIA and Microsoft Rule
October 01, 2020 20:40 - 50 minutes - 116 MBGaming-as-a-Service (GaaS) heats up during COVID and reasserts that content is still king (1:00) - Gaming Is Serious Business for NVDA and MSFT (6:10) - Dave Does Disney and Was Not Amused (9:45) - Gaming-as-a-Service Heats Up: Microsoft Buys Bethesda (14:50) - Console Wars: Xbox and PC vs. Playstation (23:00) - NVIDIA Launches Next-Gen Graphics Cards: 30 Series (29:55) - Ray Tracing: Industrial Light & Magic for Games (37:30) - The Netflix of Gaming: Satya Nadella's Vision (...
Stress-Free Wealth Creation with Chad Willardson
September 29, 2020 12:37 - 43 minutes - 100 MBThe right financial advisor is conflict-free and dedicated to your investments' growth, not their commissions (1:45) - From Big Bank to Client-Centered (6:30) - Planning For Retirement: Where to Start (15:20) - Picking the Right Advisor For Your Nest Egg (20:30) - Financial Fast Food: Don’t Let It Tempt You! (26:15) - Your Investment Journey: What To Expect Along The Ride (33:10) - What Does A Financial Fiduciary Do? (39:55) - How Emotions Get In Your Way (44:00) - Stres...
Benjamin Hardy Says Personality Isn't Permanent
June 16, 2020 08:45 - 48 minutes - 110 MBWhat if I told you that willpower doesn't work? Well, take it from a guy who became a top-ranked blogger, got his PhD, and adopted 3 foster kids -- all in just 3 years! (0:45) - Imagine These 3 Goals In 3 Years (8:45) - Willpower and Its Discontents (16:20) - Research On Personality and Why It's Not Permanent (21:55) - Your Identity = Self-Image + Biographical Narrative (31:00) - Building Blocks of Benjamin Hardy’s Success (35:40) - Creating Your Ideal Future (40:55) - Crucia...
Training Your Brain to Work For You with Dr. Jud Brewer
April 30, 2020 16:09 - 40 minutes - 93.3 MBAre you still relying on will power to change your habits? A little neuroscience will cure that. (1:00) - Opening the Hood on Your Brain w Dr. Jud (7:45) - Applying Mindfulness During The Quarantine (13:05) - The Anticipation Of Habits and Their Triggers (18:15) - Everyday Addiction: From Your "Dumbphone" to Social Media (26:30) - Awareness Tools: From Meditation to Experience Apps (35:20) - The Big Debate: Role of Will Power in Behavior Change Mind Over Money archive https://w...
How to Become Indistractable: A Wizard's Manual by Nir Eyal
April 27, 2020 19:41 - 48 minutes - 111 MBIf you want to learn the #1 skill of the future, listen to the engineer of habit-forming products and apps (0:45) - Controlling Your Attention With Nir Eyal (6:10) - The Motivation and Research Behind Indistractable (11:30) - Death By To-Do List and Our Ability To Multitask (17:40) - Traction Is The Opposite Of Distraction (29:55) - Breaking the Spell: Building A System That Works For You (35:25) - The Hidden Super Power: Managing Discomfort Intentionally (45:00) - Nir & Far Gifts for...
Fast Times at Innovation High (Part 3)
April 08, 2020 17:06 - 42 minutes - 96.8 MBYour decision-making methods can be one of the most exciting and productive areas of your life and business to ignite innovation (1:30) - Decision Traps: 10 Barriers to Overcome (11:20) - Meta-Questions for Decision Makers (19:45) - Could You Live on a Decision Budget? (26:20) - Got Any Sunk Costs? Tesla vs. Big Auto (32:30) - Could You Be Indistractable? Mind Over Money Archive
Fast Times at Innovation High (Part 2)
March 13, 2020 17:29 - 57 minutes - 132 MBImagine what you could learn about running your business and your life by studying great companies. (0:35) - lululemon vs. Under Armour: Anatomy of Success (4:45) - The 4 Disciplines of Execution (14:10) - Top 10 Decision Making Errors (25:05) - LULU's Recovery from Debacles: See-Through Quality? (30:15) - How Could Under Armour Lose at Shoes with Curry? (38:15) - lululemon’s 3-Prong Strategic Vision (45:00) - How Can Under Armour Drive Growth Going Forward? (55:25) - Episode Roundu...
Get Your Mind Into Alpha Trading States with London's Top Coaches
March 05, 2020 20:01 - 51 minutes - 119 MBThe trading game is so much tougher now with algos ripping and squeezing every edge -- except the ones you control (2:30) - Learning From Experts and Rogues: The AlphaMind Podcast (12:00) - Why Is Trading Such a Difficult Mental Game? (20:10) - Comparing Nick Leeson and Bernie Madoff (32:50) - Goldman's David Tait: Life and Trading Cannot Be Separated (38:40) - The Emotional Challenge: Learning To Love Your Losses (45:30) - Done Properly: The Zen of Trading [email protected]
Fast Times at Innovation High, Part 1
February 26, 2020 21:30 - 51 minutes - 119 MBImagine what you could learn about running your business and your life by studying great companies. (0:45) - Modeling Success: Learning from Top Companies (6:30) - Thriving On Chaos: Top 8 Sources of Execution (17:50) - The Dutch Secret of 16th Century: Credit (30:20) - Intel’s Fateful Decision in 1985 (40:00) - Disciplines of Execution in Era of Disruptive Innovation [email protected]
Tech Investing 101: Know, Buy, Hold Disruptive Growth
February 12, 2020 20:47 - 44 minutes - 103 MBInvestors who missed the great rallies in Apple and Microsoft have been wondering why, and wishing they listened to Dan Ives (2:55) - The Map of Knowledge: Scholars of the Dark Ages (13:10) - Clayton Christensen and Technology Disruption (22:00) - Apple’s 2019 Growth Slowdown: Buy or Panic? (25:35) - Dan Ives Calls Tech Rally, Says Much More to Come (28:40) - What Could Push Apple To $2 Trillion? (31:15) - 5 Big Tech Predictions for 2020: FAANG and More (38:50) - Google Playing Catchup ...
Coronavirus: Epidemic or Pandemic?
January 29, 2020 19:17 - 44 minutes - 103 MBThe current geometric rate of transmission implies that over 100,000 people could be infected by early February (1:00) - Severe Health Crisis for China (6:10) - A Brief History of Pandemics (15:45) - Got DNA? Coronavirus Genome (23:20) - In Search of a Vaccine (32:55) - Competition: A New Science? (43:15) - Episode Roundup: [email protected]
Empires and Explorers: Our Destiny in the Stars
January 15, 2020 21:14 - 40 minutes - 92.2 MBTechnology ignites commerce and both are driven by our insatiable thirst for wealth, power, knowledge, and new horizons (1:00) - A Brief History of Tribal Behavior (11:15) - China's Empire Goals: Winner Take All? (24:05) - The Final Frontier: Space or AI? (30:00) - Inevitable Expeditions: AI Before Mars (38:30) - Episode Roundup: [email protected]
Nationalism vs. Globalism: Technology Overrules Politics
December 20, 2019 20:32 - 42 minutes - 97.6 MBWhile populist movements seem a step backwards, the generations growing up on innovation and fluid borders will inherit one world (1:00) - Why Technology is Unstoppable and Changes Everything (8:15) - What's Driving the Trends Toward Nationalism? (15:00) - Generational Drivers of Globalization vs. Populist Movements (21:35) - Bull Market Going Higher: What Stops It? (32:00) - Nationalism Stops Globalization, Proving Earth Not So Flat (38:25) - Software Eats FedEx While Semis Soar To N...
Trade of the 2020's: Sell Gold, Buy Biotech
December 04, 2019 19:53 - 37 minutes - 85.7 MBIn 5 years, you be selling your gold and buying more companies leading the century of biology (0:45) - The Behavior of Gold Investors (4:35) - The Technology Super Cycle (7:45) - The 4 Core Arguments Against Gold (12:30) - NASA Mission To Psyche: The Fort Knox of Asteroids (22:50) - Trade of the 2020’s: Sell Gold, Buy Biotech
Streaming Wars Get Hot for Disney, Netflix, Roku and The Trade Desk
November 13, 2019 15:21 - 35 minutes - 81.1 MBThe content explosion is creating massive new opportunity for advertisers and the one platform that connects everything. (0:45) - Trade Desk Runs Box Office for the Streaming Cage Match (6:10) - Binge Watching: The Behavioral Risks (14:30) - Will Netflix Be Forced to Adopt Ad-Supported Platform? (18:00) - Disney+ Storms the Battlefield (22:15) - Amazon Prime & Apple TV: Ringside Seats and Lots of Popcorn (28:40) - Is Comcast’s Free Box A Roku Killer? (34:00) - Episode Roundup: ...
Where Does Your Fear Come From?
September 19, 2019 18:42 - 31 minutes - 72.1 MBNeuroscientists are proving the human sense of fear is very different than animals and why it matters (0:45) - Twitter Discoveries: The Deep History of Ourselves (6:00) - Awareness of Fear: Human vs. Animal Instincts (11:30) - Acting out of Fear: Being Aware Of Your Emotions When Investing (21:15) - Insights From Joseph LeDoux (30:20) - Episode Roundup: [email protected]
Probability 101: How Not to Be a Sucker
September 05, 2019 17:14 - 54 minutes - 124 MBWe need science and math -- and STEM-savvy minds -- more than ever to help us inform decision making (1:00) - Allergic to Algebra? Harnessing Math for Fun & Profit (7:45) - Probability Skills Immunize Against Those Who Lie with Stats (21:30) - Taleb's Black Swan and the Limits of Standard Deviation (27:10) - Discovering Probability: Where Did It All Start? (36:35) - Expected Value: A Simple Yet Powerful Equation (41:20) - Crazy People Who Play Powerball: Visualizing The Odds (52:25) ...
Boeing 737 MAX and the FAA: A Clash of Culture and Convexity
August 22, 2019 18:48 - 32 minutes - 74.4 MBAs we await results of NTSB and grand jury investigations, many questions linger about what went wrong (0:45) - Boeing 737 MAX: Did Profit Motive Override Sound Design? (8:15) - Remember the DC-10? How Consumers Handle Shocking Tragedies (14:00) - MCAS Software Enhancement: The Right Solution, Wrongly Delivered? (22:45) - Does The FAA Give Boeing Too Much Control? (28:30) - What To Expect From Boeing Moving Forward (31:05) - Episode Roundup: [email protected]
How to Trade Unicorns Before They IPO
August 15, 2019 19:16 - 16 minutes - 37 MBA growing herd of unicorns and their founders and investors are finding liquidity without rushing to IPO (0:45) - A New Marketplace for Pre-IPO Trading (6:00) - How Forge Creates Value for Unicorns and Investors (8:25) - Innovation with Spotify and Slack: What's a Direct Listing? (12:15) - A Herd of Unicorns: Growth Potential for the Pre-IPO Market (15:00) - Episode Roundup: [email protected]
Facebook Faceplant: First AI Failure, More to Come
July 26, 2018 21:49 - 44 minutes - 102 MBThe greatest accidental experiment in social media has a lot to teach us about taming the AI beast (2:00) - Facebook Flopped and It’s Great! (5:45) - Max Tegmark: Life 3.0 (10:35) - Prometheus Achieves World Domination (16:00) - Taming the Beast that AI Could Become (21:10) - 5 Proofs We Are Naturally Irrational (24:20) - Driving Money Away, Keeping Bad Habits (29:25) - Repelling Helpful People, Sabotaging Our Health (34:15) - An Elephant in Your Brain (42:30) - E...
The $100 Billion Cult: Video Gaming & Global Youth Culture
July 19, 2018 21:52 - 34 minutes - 78.2 MBI’m not crazy about kids wasting hours playing video games, but there has to be a way to profit from it, for all of us (0:30) - Stock-Picking: Better Than Video Games? (4:30) - Fortnite Battle Royale: Free Viral Mania Makes Millions (10:45) - Video Game Industry: Where $100 Billion Comes From (14:30) - Amazon's Twitch Creates a Whole New World (21:15) - Freemium Model: What Impact on Console Companies? (30:00) - Future of Gaming, Augmented Reality, and Education (33:10) - Epi...
Dopamine and the Weather, Part 2
July 12, 2018 20:18 - 50 minutes - 115 MBHow technology changes human behavior and social rules, but not human nature and genetics—yet. (0:45) - The Century of Biology (8:00) – Wonderful Dopamine: The Attention Drug (21:30) – Memory, Emotion and Learning Complete the Loop (33:00) - Dopamine in the Noisy Concert of Consciousness (39:05) - The Cerebral Symphony: Arouse, Orient, Detect, Execute (43:10) – Find Your Flow: 5 Ways To Learn More, Better, Faster (49:00) - Episode Roundup: [email protected]
Dopamine and the Weather, Part 1
June 28, 2018 22:16 - 50 minutes - 117 MBHow technology changes human behavior and social rules, but not human nature and genetics—yet. (1:15) - FDA Shares Strategic Vision on Gene Therapies (5:25) - Human Nature: New Science vs. Old Assumptions (12:30) - Steven Pinker: Using Biology to Inform Beliefs (17:40) - How Technology Changes Everything But Human Nature (25:00) - Candace Pert: Your Body Is Your Subconscious Mind (34:15) - Multi-Mind Theory: Do We Naturally Self-Sabotage? (43:00) - “This Weather Is Crazy!” ...
Knowledge, Certainty, and Destiny: How to Keep Up With Science & Technology
June 21, 2018 21:19 - 38 minutes - 88.5 MBScience is bringing the future to you faster every year and this requires a mind wide open (0:45) - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (5:10) - Meet the Huxleys: Evolution’s Grand Champions (10:15) - The Chaos Theory of Learning & Unstoppable Creativity (16:10) - Books for Minds Wide Open: Bill Nye and Richard Feynman (23:45) - The Death of Doubt: Why We Pretend To Know It All (28:00) - The Wrong Ways To Use Science (31:50) - The Future Of Education (37:30) - ...
3 Rules of Wealth for Bull Markets
June 07, 2018 14:57 - 29 minutes - 67 MBAt the risk of over-simplifying, I crystallize my favorite principles into lessons for all future bull markets (0:45) - Navigating the Bull Market (6:00) - Following The Smart Money (8:45) - Kevin’s Market Melt-Up Recipe (11:30) - 3 Wealth-Building Rules for Bull Markets (18:00) - A Quick Look at How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain (27:50) - Episode Roundup: [email protected]
Your Brain On Risk: 8 Questions to Check Your Investing Biases
May 30, 2018 21:03 - 43 minutes - 101 MBWhy do the same bad investing decisions keep cropping up for some people? (1:00) - Are You a Trader or Long Term Investor? (5:00) - A Quiz on Your Psychology of Investing (10:45) - Should You Be Listening To Everything Your Advisor Says? (13:50) - What Should You Do With An Inheritance? (21:15) - How To Navigate A Market Correction (25:10).- Loss Aversion, Confirmation and Availability Bias (35:40) - Long Term Investing vs. Short Term Trading (41:40) - Episode Roundup: Podcas...
Apple iPhones Give Me the Feelies
January 09, 2018 22:45 - 33 minutes - 76.8 MBLong before anyone noticed what smartphones did to kids, a wise teacher warned us about the dangers of our devices (0:30) - Judgement Day: Big Investors Write a Letter To Apple (5:30) - Smartphone Addiction: How Did We Get Here? (8:20) - Neil Postman: A Wise Teacher Ahead Of His Time (11:00) - The Medium Is The Message (17:30) - Perfecting Captivation: Tantalizing Television (22:40) - Technopoly: The Dystopia That’s Not Fiction (36:15) - Can Everything “Bad” Be Good For You? (...
What's The Undoing Project All About?
January 03, 2018 22:11 - 34 minutes - 78.9 MBResist as he might, Michael Lewis couldn’t help but write the story of the partnership that created the most exciting economic power since the invention of money (0:30) - The Collision of Markets and Psychology (5:30) - The Great Partnership of Kahneman and Tversky (12:00) - CES in Vegas: What Should You Be Watching? (20:00) - The Undeniable Force Behind The Undoing Project (31:15) - Train Your Brain for Market Strategy with Probability (33:35) - Episode Roundup: [email protected]...
How Will Artificial Intelligence Change Your Investing?
December 12, 2017 23:06 - 25 minutes - 23.7 MBAI is not a replacement for stock-picking, but it will become a powerful ally against bad decision-making (0:20) - qplum: Deep learning & AI Based Trading Strategy (3:30) - AI Disruption On Asset Management Industry (7:00) - Customized Portfolios: How AI Is Useful To Investors (11:00) - Adjustment and Rebalancing Strategies of qplum (15:30) - Tax Efficiency & qplum Integration With Brokers (18:00) - qplum's Assets Under Management & Performance (21:10) - How Will qplum Survive...
12 Lessons Before You Trade Bitcoin Futures
December 07, 2017 01:03 - 43 minutes - 39.6 MBNew risk management for the newest asset class is a welcome innovation, but requires different knowledge and skills than buy-and-hold (0:45) - Bitcoin Surges Over $12,000... then $13K (5:10) - 6 Starter Insights to Trade Bitcoin (15:45) - How Will Large Futures Traders Impact Bitcoin? (18:40) - What's Good About Futures Contracts? (26:50) - The Crucial Function of the Clearing House (30:10) - Contract Specs: CBOE & CME Bitcoin Designs (36:00) - Futures Trading Can Be A Double-...
Bitcoin or CRISPR: Which is the Bigger Disruptor?
November 29, 2017 23:31 - 33 minutes - 30.7 MBIn just 5 years, two new "exponential technologies" have been created that will dramatically change the world (0:25) - Nothing Changes Economics and Behavior Like New Technology (4:00) - The "Fear Of Missing Out" On Bitcoin Pushes it Over $10,000 (11:10) - 4 Thinkers Who Influence Bitcoin Mania (18:30) - Genetic Disruption: CRISPR-Cas9 (23:00) - CRISPR Creator Becomes Its Cassandra (28:30) - The Brave New World of Gene Editing (32:40) - Episode Roundup: [email protected]
Don’t Fight the Gravity of Exponential Change
November 22, 2017 22:59 - 43 minutes - 40.2 MBTechnology is reshaping life and business so fast that intelligent adaptation could be the #1 skill of the 21st century (0:30) - Hot Topics for Family Get-Togethers (4:00) - Exponential Technologies: Change at the Speed of Light (10:30) - Futurist Alvin Toffler's “Predictable” Life (16:00) - Anti-Technology Ideology: Neo-Luddism (21:00) - Overview of Warnings: Finding Cassandras to Stop Catastrophes (24:45) - Jennifer Doudna: CRISPR-Cas9 Gene Editing (33:00) - The Intern...
Bitcoin $20,000 Before Zero
November 15, 2017 22:33 - 43 minutes - 39.5 MBWhy the leading cryptocurrency has been strongly validated in the past month and dispels the bubble talk (1:30) - Blockchain & Cryptocurrency Revolution (12:00) - Bitcoin Volatility: The Hard Fork (17:00) - Square Testing Integration Of Bitcoin (22:00) - Zimbabwe Coup Spikes Bitcoin Over $13,500 (27:00) - CME Bitcoin Futures: Regulated Price Discovery & Arbitrage (36:00) - Xbox One X and Tesla Updates (41:30) - Episode Roundup: [email protected]
Blockchain 101: If Bitcoin’s a Fraud, How is Ethereum Different?
November 08, 2017 00:07 - 33 minutes - 30.5 MBJamie Dimon’s JPMorgan just launched a Blockchain platform based on a very different cryptocurrency. (0:25) - Bitcoin Surges Past $7,000 on CME Futures Contract (4:00) - Jamie Dimon: "Bitcoin Is A Fraud!" (11:00) - What the Heck is a Blockchain? (14:40) - Ethereum = Expanded Capability vs. Bitcoin (18:20) - The Blockchain Revolution: Why Cryptocurrency Matters (23:45) - Bitcoin = First Generation of World-Changing Idea (32:20) - Episode Roundup: [email protected]
Deep Learning Goes to Wall Street
November 01, 2017 21:54 - 36 minutes - 33.5 MBFintech innovations are changing investing tools and behavior in powerful ways that you must begin to explore. (0:30) - Automated Financial Management: Betterment & Wealthfront (5:30) - Burton Malkiel: Are Markets Too Random? (9:00) - Resources for the Deep Learning / AI Future We Face (16:40) - qplum: Automated Investing Using AI and Data Science (25:45) - Concerns with qplum: Will the Same Science Work for All? (31:00) - Takeaways from qplum (35:45) - Episode Roundup: Podcast...
AI in Action: DeepStack, DeepMind, and Deep Learning Intuition (Part 2)
October 25, 2017 22:01 - 36 minutes - 33.1 MBThe power of AI will take over the world with “invisible robots” making life easier, better, faster (0:30) - AI and Deep Learning: Tools Not Tyrants (6:00) - How DeepStack Uses Intuition in Poker (14:45) - DeepMind’s AlphaGo Zero Drops a Bomb (19:30) - Psychology Meets AI: Mariano Sigman (24:40) - The Invisible Robots Are Coming! (35:00) - Episode Roundup: [email protected]