Nico (@InefficientMrkt on Twitter) is a day trader with a thirst for momentum. He predominately trades low-priced stocks that have a tendency to move fast and far—and roughly 90% of his positions are on the short side. But the main reason why I brought Nico onto the podcast, is I feel as though he has a story which many traders will be able to relate to, on one level or another… The short of it is; Nico placed his first trade in 2007, made 4x on his starting capital year one, and then slowly ble...
Oct 27, 2016•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 96
For this episode, the trader who I had the opportunity to speak with, and who you’re about to hear from, is Adrian—or @AdeyF69 on Twitter. Adrian was a pro sailor for almost two decades, but for the past six years, he’s been on dry land, taking an income from financial markets as an independent day trader. Adrian primarily trades the Bund and the DAX, though he initially started out in foreign exchange. His trading strategy is influenced by support and resistance areas, volume profiling, order f...
Oct 20, 2016•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 95
My guest on this episode is a former-stand up comedian, turned questionable stockbroker, turned day trader—folks, I’d like you to meet, Kenny Glick. During the 90’s, Kenny went from the stages of comedy clubs into a hyper-aggressive brokerage firm, which he describes as being identical to scenes from the movie, Boiler Room—and he has some wild stories to share, which you’ll hear very soon. Once Kenny realized his morals were getting in the way of his ability peddle junk stocks, he went on to pur...
Oct 13, 2016•1 hr 21 min•Ep. 94
What 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, Gol...
Oct 06, 2016•56 min•Ep. 93
For 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 epis...
Sep 29, 2016•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 92
Craig 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, sent...
Sep 22, 2016•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 91
For 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 keen ...
Sep 15, 2016•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 90
Blake 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, Blake i...
Sep 08, 2016•1 hr 21 min•Ep. 89
Dave 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 on m...
Sep 01, 2016•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 88
This 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 ad...
Aug 25, 2016•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 87
Jared 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, the...
Aug 18, 2016•1 hr 30 min•Ep. 86
Blair 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 countries. ...
Aug 11, 2016•50 min•Ep. 85
This 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 presentations a...
Aug 04, 2016•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 84
The 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 episode,...
Jul 28, 2016•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 83
This 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 legacy...
Jul 21, 2016•1 hr 31 min•Ep. 82
Our 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 in...
Jul 14, 2016•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 81
Anthony 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 p...
Jul 07, 2016•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 80
Raoul 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 a p...
Jun 30, 2016•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 79
As 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; s...
Jun 22, 2016•1 hr 35 min•Ep. 78
You’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. Some o...
Jun 16, 2016•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 77
Our 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 market...
Jun 09, 2016•46 min•Ep. 76
For 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 poo...
Jun 02, 2016•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 75
My 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 equ...
May 26, 2016•48 min•Ep. 74
For 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 working...
May 19, 2016•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 73
This 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 researc...
May 12, 2016•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 72
A 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 frequency...
May 05, 2016•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 71
Jeff 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, ...
Apr 28, 2016•1 hr 18 min•Ep. 70
Welcome 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 the...
Apr 21, 2016•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 69
For this episode, we have our very first guest from Sweden—big shout out to Sweden! I spoke with Mikael Syding; a value investor who spent 15 years in the hedge fund business, and in 2009, he was awarded European Hedge Fund Manger of the Decade before retiring shortly after. During the interview, I ask Mikael to share his three greatest lessons for traders and investors, how he spotted growth opportunities, and I also ask him how his views on money have changed over the span of his career, plus ...
Apr 14, 2016•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 68
We have a very special guest on the podcast right now; Jerry Parker. For those who don’t know, Jerry is one of the original widely-recognized, Turtle Traders. The Turtles were a small (somewhat secretive) group of traders who were mentored and trained by Richard Dennis, a big time commodities trader, in the 80’s. It’s an interesting story and you’ll hear more about this in just a moment. Today, Jerry remains the founder of Chesapeake Capital, which is a commodity trading advisor, and he has well...
Apr 07, 2016•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 67
