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Dec 26, 2023•3 min
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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272: Erik Smolinski - Marine Corps Discipline Crushes the Markets
Growing up poor and living in violent neighborhoods didn’t stop Erik Smolinski from being motivated and curious. Erik only needed to hear a few words about investing including the power of compounding from his high school instructor to light the passion and determination to take ACTION. The discipline, responsibility, accountability, and patience he cultivated as a Marine Corp officer strengthened his ability to stick with his well thought out trading plans and persevere. His use of derivatives ...
Dec 12, 2023•1 hr 20 min•Ep. 272
271: Tom Basso - The Sweet Balance Between Risk and Reward
Experiencing the brutal bear market of 1973-74 impressed upon Tom the necessity to find ways to hedge risk. This began a multi year long quest to find the right combination of uncorrelated assets, technical indicators and adjust the weightings as needed to provide enough protection to fill in the potholes of equity drawdowns while retaining the bulk of upside potential. Having a sweet balance between risk and reward both in the financial markets and in his personal life has enabled Tom to mainta...
Nov 30, 2023•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 271
270: What Keeps You in the Game of Trading?
Every now and then, we like to switch things up and take a break from our usual program. Today, we present a special episode for that purpose. So, what keeps you in the trading game? The voices you hear in the podcast introduction belong to our listeners from all over the world. We share these voices with you because we believe you will be able to relate to them, just as we do. These voices mirror those of many traders like us who are on similar paths. They also serve as a reminder that we are n...
Nov 09, 2023•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 270
269: Rob Hanna - Reducing Anxiety and Drawdowns through Quantifiable Edges
The shock of his first major losing year in 2004 as a discretionary trader, propelled Rob Hanna to find quantifiable statistical advantages that would help mitigate the fluctuations in his equity curves. Knowing the dangers of curve fitting, in trying to find that ‘perfect’ system, Rob zeroed in on simpler approaches that would combine seasonality, overbought, oversold and Federal Reserve days. The result is a system that helps minimize anxiety and drawdowns while keeping him invested for the bu...
Oct 25, 2023•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 269
268: Bryan Holdford - Is Loss Control All It Takes to Become Consistent?
Paying to take and pass the Series 7 license as a teenager in the 1980’s led Bryan Holdford into the high commission world of stocks and options without mentors or the internet. Starting with investment newspapers Bryan tried many trading ideas without any risk controls. Despite frequent and numerous losses, he was hooked on the game of trading. Obsessive determination drives him to stay in the game despite a boom bust performance. Recently he seems to have found the right balance. Learn more ab...
Oct 05, 2023•1 hr 33 min•Ep. 268
267: Dan McDermitt - An Edge with Correlations Across Time Frames
Stinging losses with mutual funds in 2008 drove Dan to become an active manager of his portfolio. Enticed by the legalization prospects of marijuana, he dived into learning the fundamentals and technicals of the sector. Learning how these stocks traded relative to each other, he cultivated an awareness of the correlations between these companies. These interrelationships would later be applied to large cap stocks, Commodities and Crypto across different time frames to give insights on when to pa...
Sep 21, 2023•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 267
266: Mark Bennell - Mind Your Business: Be Like An Employee
An engineer at the core, Mark Bennell, a Private Trader who has been trading full-time for 15 years breaks down what it really means to “Treat Trading As a Business” and why this mindset was incredibly important in turning his trading around and why it has kept him in the game for this long. About Mark Bennell Mark Bennell is a Private Trader who has been trading for the last 18 years, 15 of those being as a full time trader. He holds a Diploma in Technical Analysis, a Diploma in Share Trading a...
Sep 06, 2023•1 hr 32 min•Ep. 266
265: Peter Stolcers - Taking a Top-Down Approach to Day Trading
Seeing and feeling the intensity and chaos of the trading pits back in the 1980’s, Pete knew immediately that trading was the career he had to have. Starting as a floor runner making $5/hr to later trading full time for a living Pete discovered the importance of finding stocks with relative strength during the bear market of 2002. Pete uses a top down 3 step methodical process which helps him zero in on stocks to go long or short. From longs to shorts, conservative credit spreads, high leverage ...
Aug 16, 2023•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 265
264: Gabriel Bullo - Contest Winner: One Trader's Unwavering Dedication
Growing up poor in the Philippines, Gabriel sought a way to supplement his income. Dealing with the emotional challenges of giving up his profits in his long-term positions, he switched to trading to have a sense of greater control of the outcome. Starting out using many technical indicators, he later switched to just price action as it gave less false signals. After blowing up several accounts, he honed his skills to become the winner of the 21-Day Trading Challenge Contest inside the Chat with...
Aug 02, 2023•46 min•Ep. 264
263: Andres Granger - Making it in South Korea & Exploiting Market Inefficiencies in Crypto
Seeking financial opportunities overseas just before the Great Financial Crises, Andres Granger was motivated to learn how to trade after falling victim to a Ponzi-like trading scheme. He worked hard and diligently studied order flow and scalping while trading Futures in different markets. Later, he was introduced to crypto through a prop firm, where he honed his skills to exploit large market inefficiencies through market neutral trading. Emboldened by these incredible opportunities, Andres the...
Jul 18, 2023•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 263
262: Henrik Johansson & Patrick Petersson - Recap: Beginner Trader to Funded Trader in 60 Days
This is a special episode of a recording of a recent discussion that occurred within the Chat With Traders Community on a Zoom call. The discussion centers around Henrik Johansson, a beginner fellow trader, who embarked on a journey to obtain funding from a proprietary trading firm within a 60-day timeframe. Patrick Petersson leads the conversation with Henrik. If you recall, Patrick was a guest on episode 260. Patrick and Henrik traded together during this period with the goal of helping Henrik...
Jul 06, 2023•1 hr 54 min•Ep. 262
261: Humbled Trader - Lamborghini Money Quest Teaches Valuable Lessons
First seduced by advertisements of easy money, Shay a.k.a. Humbled Trader learned that she had to find her own way of trading. Taking the skills she learned as a special effects artist in Hollywood, she created the popular Youtube channel for traders to share her trading wisdoms in a humorous creative way. Join us in the story of how Shay was able to quit her full time job to trade full time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jun 20, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 261
260: Patrick Petersson - Breathing In, Breathing Out Intuitive Hits on the Markets
Growing up in a family and culture strongly critical of trading as a profession, Patrick Petersson opened his first trading account on his 18th birthday and risked his reputation and family money to follow a deep growing passion he had for years. After blowing up many accounts, he found himself homeless and rejected by all in his family despite fully paying them back. Passion, determination, and persuasion gave Patrick another chance as he started managing money for wealthy clients. Join us in t...
Jun 06, 2023•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 260
259: Lukas Frohlich - Executing Agenda Trading Strategy for Stratospheric Returns
Lacking education, mentors or money, Lukas Frohlich, known to many as The Short Bear, became fascinated with financial markets when only 13 years old. Saving everything he could from jobs, he started trading before he could even legally drive a car. He created Youtube and Twitter accounts to share strategies, victories and defeats to help fellow traders improve their game. Obsessed with learning from mistakes, understanding gains and improving his process lead to outrageous gains in 2020 with hi...
May 16, 2023•1 hr 27 min•Ep. 259
258: Alexander Moreno - Snowballing Losses and the Courage to Come Clean, Heal & Rebuild
Dedicating significant hours to books and market analysis, Alexander Moreno sought regular counsel from a seasoned trading mentor. After refining his abilities through months of paper trading, he ventured into live trading, reaping consistent profits as planned. This success bolstered his confidence to trade full-time as a livelihood. However, the unforeseen market turbulence in 2008 unleashed his psychological struggles, leading to impulsive trading and ultimately, homelessness. This harrowing ...
May 01, 2023•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 258
257: David Capablanca - Crafting the Art of Shorting Scams
Deep in debt after finishing Architecture school, David Capablanca, originally from Miami and host of the Friendly Bear Podcast, desired an alternative career with independence, freedom and potential for high earnings. Naturally drawn to a contrarian psychology, he zeroed in on short selling. The challenge of uncovering scams through a deep dive into company fundamentals, history of founders and visiting company headquarters overseas on a quest to find clues were the things that energized David ...
Apr 11, 2023•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 257
256: Louisa Nicola - Supercharging the Brain and Body with Peak Performance Habits
After an accident ended her career as a professional athlete, Louisa Nicola became a Neurophysiologist and human performance coach, in order to understand and share what improves and degrades the brain’s short term performance and long term viability. Adopting certain habits, diets and supplementing with technology can give us traders the edge needed for peak performance and overall mental well-being. Bio Neurophysiologist and human performance coach, Louisa Nicola is the founder and head perfor...
Mar 28, 2023•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 256
255: Vincent Bruzzese (aka Hari Seldon) - From Working in Hollywood to Burning the Gambler's Mindset
As a former poker player, heavy gambler, and professor of statistics, and after having had a successful professional career in the movie industry in Hollywood, Vincent Bruzzese (aka Hari Seldon of Real Day Trading group) took his poker skills and expertise on statistical predictive modeling of human behavior and ventured into the world of trading with a goal of finding an edge. But, after blowing up his accounts multiple times, he had to go back to the drawing board and hone his trading skills, ...
Mar 14, 2023•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 255
254: Christian Carreon - Kidney Disease, Poverty, and Jail Time to Going All In On the Markets
Growing up poor with kidney disease as an immigrant from Mexico, Christian Carreon’s trauma with health issues and family financial instability resulted in the drive and hunger for financial success and security through redemption in the markets. Despite suffering through physical and emotional pain from his condition, his spirit and determination remained strong. He dove deep into the markets and after trial and error, eventually honed down and refined his systematic approach to a “trading boxe...
Feb 21, 2023•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 254
253: Patrick Boyle - Lessons from Financial History and False Expectations in the Markets
Patrick is a finance professor, author, quant hedge fund manager and a connoisseur of financial history. As a young investor in Utility stocks, Patrick’s hunger to learn and apply the lessons of financial history helped him to maintain composure during the frenzied bubble market in the late 90’s and avoid most of the losses his colleagues suffered during the dot.com blowup. His studiousness, and growing aptitude for finding opportunities, resulted in him making valuable connections with mentors ...
Feb 08, 2023•1 hr 24 min•Ep. 253
252: Yvan Byeajee - From Emotional Turbulence to Trading with Composure
Growing up poor with learning difficulties, Yvan Byejee’s early trading failures drove him to understand his own emotional turbulence and instability in the mind through deep inner work. With a heightened sense of mindfulness, he embraced uncertainty and became systematic in his trading to develop an edge. Yvan discovered trading in the late 90s and has been trading for a living since 2006. He struggled and failed his way to eventual consistency and market success over time. He’s the man respons...
Jan 24, 2023•59 min•Ep. 252
251: Kasper Vandeloock - High School Dropout Turned Quant Trader, Entrepreneur (Pre & Post FTX Collapse)
The FTX collapse, arrest of Sam Bankman Fried, and the subsequent collapse of the crypto market opened new opportunities for Kasper Vandeloock, as some players were forced to exit the market. Note: There are 2 parts to this interview. Part 1 was recorded prior to the collapse of the crypto market due to the downfall of FTX. Part 2 (listen right after Part 1) is a follow-up interview with Kasper to get his perspective on the impact of the collapse of FTX and how it impacted his strategies. When K...
Jan 08, 2023•1 hr 26 min•Ep. 251
250: Sunny Harris - Methodical Day Trader Thrives Through 4 Market Crashes and Still Going Strong
As a highly driven, methodical stock and futures day trader, Sunny Harris didn’t survive the four major market crashes, she thrived through them. A strong believer of technical analysis, back testing, and systematic trading, this vivacious Southern California trader and entrepreneur leveraged her background and skills as a mathematician and programmer to develop and refine her own trading system that she has come to rely on throughout her trading career. Listen to some enlightening and surprisin...
Dec 19, 2022•56 min•Ep. 250
249: Jack Kellogg - Valet Driver Turns $20K into $11Mil over 6 years After Wipe Out
Starting out juggling multiple jobs as a valet driver, firefighter and entrepreneur, Jack Kellogg at 18 years of age about 6 years ago dreamed of financial freedom, became laser-focused on saving money and learned everything he could about the stock market before turning to penny stocks. Jack's intense drive for success pushed his mental and physical health to unhealthy levels as he managed hundreds of trades, and at times in illiquid, unregulated securities that often saw hundreds of percent in...
Dec 06, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 249
248: David Sun - Systematic Options Trading - Minimize Risk, Optimize Edge
From Electrical Engineer to Hedge Fund Manager, David Sun, previously on TastyTrade as a Rising Star guest went on to start his first hedge fund in 2018, and then went on to add a second one in 2021. Learn about one of David's concepts applying a systematic approach to Options trading. It has to do with these 3 things; stop losses (which is not common in options trading), how he takes advantage of high implied volatility (IV) - but not in the way most options traders would think, and his approac...
Nov 22, 2022•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 248
247: Djamal Adib - Stop Loss Hunting and Dancing with the Smart Money in Forex Trading
It's about time we have a discussion on Forex Trading, but this is not your average Forex Trading discussion. Some Forex traders may be unaware of how stop loss hunting and market manipulation is done by the smart money. Like many Forex traders, ex-stockbroker Djamal Adib experienced early losses which compelled him to study the inner workings of Forex trading, and how stop loss orders are hunted by the smart money. Djamal spent four years pouring over thousands of charts patterns of different t...
Nov 08, 2022•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 247
246: Uri Klarman - Thought Provoking Opportunities in DeFi with Crypto Tech Wizard
Seeing the great potential and opportunities available in decentralized finance and the crypto currency universe, Uri Klarman left academia with a PHD in computer networks and later specialized in Blockchain research. He started a company that would help crypto traders avoid the front running flash traders which had plagued Wall Street for years. Uri shares his contagious excitement and passion combined with his in depth knowledge about the history, technology and benefits of decentralized finan...
Oct 26, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 246
245: Jason Shapiro - The Mind of a Tape Reading Contrarian Trader
Jason Shapiro has been a trader for 30 years and was interviewed in the Unknown Market Wizards book by Jack Schwager. From early on Jason was a rebel who avoided group think and sought out contrarian trading opportunities in overhyped, or deeply oversold stocks and commodities. Blessed by early trading successes, Jason retired to a beach in Thailand in the late 90’s and traded his account full time only to experience tragedy less than a year later. The painful lessons he learned drove him to giv...
Oct 11, 2022•57 min•Ep. 245
244: Ian Cox – From Stocks to Options to Crypto - New Host Joins CWT
Ian Cox, new host from Seattle, Washington joins Tessa on Chat With Traders. Trading and investing since the mid-90s, Ian eventually worked his way towards success which afforded him early retirement, financial and time freedom. Of course it wasn't all smooth sailing as you'll learn in this interview. It never is. Passionate about the financial markets, Ian continues to expand his horizons by continuing to stay curious, learn and grow, even as a veteran trader. He currently still trades stocks a...
Oct 03, 2022•48 min•Ep. 244
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