In the first AlphaMind podcast of 2020 co-hosts Steven Goldstein and Mark Randall share their Top Tips for how to be more effective, more productive, more successful as Traders and Investment Professionals in 2020. Mark and Steve between them have over 70 years working in Financial Markets and now work with leading traders, investment professionals, manager and leaders in the Financial Markets industry as coaches and consultants. Their work in the field of performance development has helped many...
Jan 07, 2020•1 hr 13 min•Season 1Ep. 27
Chris Cain spent a decade working as a Market Maker in Fixed Income products before moving on to work privately as a trader and producing some outstanding performance in a very short space of time. Chris is also co-author of a new book, “The Alpha Formula; High Powered Strategies to Beat The Market With Less Risk”. The book is written jointly with Larry Connors who has over 30 years of experience working in financial markets and is widely regarded today as one of the leading educators in the fin...
Dec 10, 2019•1 hr 23 min•Season 1Ep. 26
Beat Nussbaumer started trading FX in 1984 for UBS in Zurich. Over the next 35 years Beat worked for a who’s who of Investment Banks including Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, and Commerzbank as a market-maker, proprietary trader and Head of FX. Over the past few years Beat has been trading for himself, tutoring retail traders and providing investment bank research. In this interview Beat shares powerful insights on the challenge’s new traders face, talks about the realities needed to succeed in t...
Dec 03, 2019•1 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 25
This interview is really in two parts. The first 15 minutes of the interview Nick tells about himself and his new venture, and talks about the comparison between trading and sports-betting. Nick sees sports-betting as still in the early stage of maturity compared to the very mature financial markets. For this reason, it is ripe for exploration and provides an exciting opportunity for those who struggling to find an edge in the very mature financial markets. The second part of this interview talk...
Nov 25, 2019•58 min•Season 1Ep. 24
This episode was sparked by an overwhelming response to a tweet posted this week by podcast host Steven Goldstein on the AlphaMind twitter handle https://twitter.com/AlphaMind101. The Tweet: ________________________________________________________________________ For almost 25 years I earned my living as a professional trader, it was a fascinating job that I loved. But there were times too when it wrenched the very living soul and every ounce of self-esteem from me. - The advertisers and gurus w...
Nov 16, 2019•1 hr 20 min•Season 1Ep. 23
Dana Cavalea was Strength, Conditioning and Performance Coach for the New York Yankees when they won the world series in 2009. Today he coaches leaders, executives, traders and investors in how to be in peak physical and mental condition to work in optimal states. As much as trading and investment relies on intellect and knowledge, they also rely massively on emotional intelligence and it could be said that they are performance activities arguably more so than they are intellectual activities. I...
Nov 09, 2019•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 22
Benis is a partner and behavioural scientist with 'Final Mile', the world’s leading Behavioural Architecture Consultancy. Behavioural Architecture seeks to solve complex issues and problems where conventional approaches fall short. It does this by exploring issues through the lens of Cognitive Neuroscience, Behavioural Economics, and Design Concepts. Benis heads Final Mile's Financial Market arm which seeks to help businesses and people engaged in financial markets to make improvements which lea...
Nov 02, 2019•1 hr 10 min•Season 1Ep. 21
This week’s guest is Carol Harmer. Carol started as a trader working for Midland Bank markets (which later became HSBC Markets), in the early 1980s on the LIFFE (London International Financial Futures Exchange) in London. She started using charts, at a time when few people were using technical analysis, to help her with her trading. Over a lifetime in the markets, Carol worked for Midland Banks, Nomura Banks, Credit Suisse, and her own business, Charmer Trading. AlphaMind podcast host Steven wor...
Oct 26, 2019•1 hr 12 min•Season 1Ep. 20
James Brodie has been in and around trading for almost 3 decades. Starting in the early 90s, James worked on trading desks at leading investment banks, started his own hedge fund, built trading systems, taught people and educated himself about technical analysis, behavioural finance, coding, and currently creates and writes algorithmic trading systems for a hedge fund, whilst still trading for himself. This conversation covers a broad range of topics and themes about trading, markets, human beha...
Oct 19, 2019•1 hr 15 min•Season 1Ep. 19
In this episode of the AlphaMind podcast we interview veteran retail trader Greg Gossett. Greg is well into his third decade of retail trading, proving that it can be done, and can be done well. In this excellent interview Greg shares with Steven and Mark his thoughts on the 3 key things he wished he had known when he started trading that he knows now. These 3 aspects are cornerstones to his trading method and his reflections on them are powerful insights in trading which carry important lessons...
Oct 12, 2019•58 min•Season 1Ep. 18
This is the second part of the interview Mark and Steve conducted with retail trader JJ aka vwaptrader1. In the first part of this interview JJ shared stories of his time as a Penny Stocks MarketMaker in a world immortalised in the movie ‘Wolf of Wall Street’. JJ talked about his rise and fall in that world and some of the scandalous behaviours and practices which were part of that world. He also detailed his move into retail trading, his initial struggles and the shock to the system being ‘on t...
Oct 05, 2019•57 min•Season 1Ep. 17
Former Penny Stocks Market-Maker, turned Retail Trader, Trader Educator and host of the superb ‘Confessions of a Market-Maker’ podcast JJ aka 'vwaptrader1' talks to Steven and Mark about his colourful career, his time as a stock manipulator, how he helped take companies private, his rise and fall, and his new career retail trading. JJ spent 2 decades working in the mad and crazy world of market-making in penny stocks which was immortalised in the classic film ‘Wolf of Wall Street’. In that time ...
Sep 28, 2019•55 min•Season 1Ep. 16
Mark and Steve talk with Australian Trader Chris Tate. Chris joined the markets in the 1980s forging a long and very successful career in the Financial Markets. Chris now works with some colleague in a business called ‘the Trading Game’ which focus on educating and training traders in the Psychology of Trading and Behavioural Finance. In this very in-depth interview, we explore a range of themes which at the core explore how people can bring the best of themselves to their work. At the beginning...
Sep 21, 2019•1 hr 27 min•Season 1Ep. 15
Merritt Black is Head of Proprietary Trading at US firm SMB futures. In this deep and very poignant interview, Merritt shares his reflections and thoughts on a wide array of themes and aspects about the realities of trading and the painful journey which can so often delight, but at times can also rip the very life from you. Merritt does not hold back, he bares his soul in this interview, bringing up painful memories which were vital steps on his journey to trading success. This interview is so f...
Sep 07, 2019•52 min•Season 1Ep. 14
In this podcast, we explore the purpose of the AlphaMind project, which aims to help people from across the Financial Markets both new and seasoned to develop and cultivate mindsets for success in their work as traders and investment professionals. We also share out thoughts on some of the amazing interviews we have conducted in recent weeks with the following masters of the markets. Mark Hutchinson -Trading Success against the odds: An FX trader and mentor who has found his own way to success i...
Aug 31, 2019•59 min•Season 1Ep. 13
Mandi is a Trader and Coach from Australia; she works with new and experienced traders helping them develop the inner mindset skills to achieve success and to progress to higher levels of performance. In this interview Mandi shares her journey into trading and how she came to work with traders as a coach. She talks about the classic mistakes and errors she has experienced in her own trading as well as amongst her clients. Also, some of the qualities she has witnesses amongst highly successful tr...
Aug 24, 2019•1 hr 31 min•Season 1Ep. 12
There are few more informed people in the world about the nexus of technical analysis and trader behaviour in the financial markets than Clive Lambert. Clive is one of the world’s leading Technical Analysts, he has a thorough understanding of the way markets work and how people work with them to achieve success. Clive's analysis can be found in trading rooms across the globe and is used by leading traders from the worlds of commodities, energy, FX, bonds, stock indices and more. Clive is also a ...
Aug 17, 2019•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 11
In this episode Dr Brett Steenbarger shares his profound insights from a career working as a psychologist with traders at some of the world’s leading hedge funds and proprietary trading firms. Brett Steenbarger is one of the best minds in the field of trading and investment psychology. There are so many great insights in this episode that you may want to take notes, possibly re-listen and ultimately try to internalise some of the lessons into your own trading behaviours. Dr Steenbarger talks abo...
Aug 10, 2019•1 hr 10 min•Season 1Ep. 10
From a small town in Canada, to a trading role at Merrill Lynch to the CEO of a $6 billion hedge fund and a member of NY Federal Reserve Investor Advisory Committee, Garth Friesen has had a unique journey to the top table of Financial markets. Being a successful trader, Garth shares his insights and perspectives on what it he believes it takes to succeed in the Financial Markets and shares his journey into financial markets. Garth also talks about his book ‘Bite the Ass Off a Bear’, which recoun...
Aug 03, 2019•1 hr 22 min•Season 1Ep. 9
In this episode co-hosts Steven and Mark talk to Futures Trader Adam Nash. Adam has achieved extraordinary success in a trading career lasting almost 3 decades. At one-point Adam was the 3rd largest Euribor trader by volume on the London Futures markets. In this excellent interview Adam discusses his journey from working in a bank middle-office in the 1980s, to becoming a bank trader, to moving to trade futures on the LIFFE ( London International Financial Futures Exchange ) floor, and finally m...
Jul 27, 2019•1 hr 6 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Mark Hutchinson is an outstanding FX Trader who has achieved great success over the past few years. In this excellent interview, Mark shares his journey into trading with AlphaMind co-hosts Steven Goldstein and Mark Randall. Mark talks about the struggle of the early years, the trial and error processes, his dyslexia, and the learning process he went through over 4 ½ years before finally starting to succeed. Mark’s passion for trading shines through in this interview, a passion he has also turne...
Jul 20, 2019•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 7
This week’s episode of the AlphaMind Podcast sees co-host Steven Goldstein musing over a webinar he gave to a group of Students from some of China’s Top universities. The students are preparing their applications for US graduate programmes and were keen to explore more about the world of Interest Rate Trading, Originally, we were aiming to record the webinar and release it directly as a podcast. Unfortunately, the sound quality was not strong enough. Instead in this episode, Steven shares his re...
Jul 13, 2019•44 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Steven Goldstein, one of the world’s leading trader performance coaches is interviewed by the podcast Co-Host Mark Randall In this podcast Steven shares his journey from his early days Trading Rates and FX in a Japanese banks in London in the mid-80s, to his time working on the proprietary trading desk at Credit Suisse and later Commerzbank and American Express, before opting to start a career as a Performance coach working with Traders and Investment Professionals. Steven shares his philosophy ...
Jul 06, 2019•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 5
In this episode Steven Goldstein interviews co-host Mark Randall. Mark is a Mindulness practitioner and veteran of the Financial Markets. Mark calls his approach ‘Mindfitness’. He describes it as 'Military Grade' mindfulness, basing it on the same principles of Mindfulness used by the US Special forces to help them be optimum when in training and on active service. Mark is a former Futures and Options broker who use to run Natwest and Greenwich Capital Futures. His broking career lasted more tha...
Jul 02, 2019•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 4
June 24, 2019 Steven Goldstein & Mark Randall This episode of the AlphaMind podcast jointly explores the subject of 'Trading Mindset' through the lens of Carol Dweck's Growth Mindset philosophy. This conversation covers a broad swathe of themes around the subject of 'Mindset' in trading, including: How 'Growth Mindset' is linked to Success and Positive Psychology. The 2 Mindsets, Growth and Fixed and how they playout in Trading. How Successful traders demonstrate 'Growth Mindset's'. Developi...
Jun 24, 2019•51 min•Season 1Ep. 3
In this episode we jointly explore the subject of ' Mental Edge '. This conversation covers a broad swathe of themes around the subject of 'Mental Edge' in trading, including: Risk Intelligence and how thinking about 'edge' in terms of positive expectancy. Poker, trading and having an 'edge'. Walking away and getting 'closure', as an 'edge'. Resetting and refreshing 'Self'. as an 'edge'. The 'Trading Turtles', and 'Psychological Edge'. Physical aspects of Performance: Sleep, Alcohol, Caffeine. H...
Jun 13, 2019•51 min•Season 1Ep. 2
The first episode of the AlphaMind podcast is co-hosted by Steven Goldstein and Mark Randall. Steven and Mark are market veterans with over 7 decades of experiences between them: Steven works as a coach helping traders and portfolio managers develop and enhance the 'Inner Game' aspects of risk performance. Before becoming a coach in 2009, Steven worked as a trader in market-making and proprietary trading roles at investment banks such as Credit Suisse, Commerzbank and American Express Bank. Mark...
May 13, 2019•52 min•Season 1Ep. 1
