107: Anthony Saliba – A 40-Year Trading Career Fueled by Necessity—the Mother of Invention
For the great, Anthony Saliba, his initial 13-years in the field were spent as a market maker on the CBOE floor, where he made approximately $9,000,000 before 30 years old (and that was during the 80’...
12 Tammi 20171h 49min
106: Turney Duff – A Wall Street Trader’s Tale of Spectacular Excess
Turney Duff was a hedge fund trader on Wall Street who lead a truly excessive lifestyle. In 2013 he released a book about his experiences—titled, The Buy Side. And currently, Turney is a consultant on...
5 Tammi 20171h 16min
105: Brendan Poots – How a Former Punter Pioneered a Premier Sports Betting Hedge Fund
Brendan Poots is the founder of sports betting hedge fund, The Priomha Group, who mainly bet on football, cricket, golf and also horse racing and tennis. Priomha setup shop in Melbourne (Australia) in...
29 Joulu 20161h
104: Alex, @AT09_Trader – An Appetite For Risk, and Hitting Hard When Opportunity Arises
Alex (@AT09_Trader) is a 22-year old, discretionary day trader, who’s seen great results in the few years he’s been grinding away at this. He trades small caps, and he trades aggressively—as you’ll so...
22 Joulu 201659min
Q5: Max Margenot – Good (and Not So Good) Uses of Machine Learning in Finance
Machine learning is a hot topic right now, with a lot of people wondering how it could be used in finance and trading. Used naively, machine learning poses a great deal of risk. We’ll discuss why that...
20 Joulu 201656min
103: Dave Bergstrom – Escaping Randomness, and Turning to Data for an Edge
On this episode, I’m joined by a quant trader who works at a high frequency trading firm—though you might be surprised to hear, he started out on the same path that many retail traders do—his name is;...
15 Joulu 201658min
Q4: Scott Sanderson – Portfolio Optimization: Risk Preferences In, Trades Out
When one has a price model that they think will work well for forecasting returns, the next step is to actually trade it. This isn’t that simple for a variety of reasons. For one thing, you need to de...
12 Joulu 20161h 11min
102: Eugene Soltes – Unraveling a $65-Billion Ponzi Scheme and Notorious Cases of Insider Trading
Eugene Soltes is an author and finance professor at Harvard Business School. Over the past eight years, give or take, he’s spent a lot of time with many big-time executives and professionals who have ...
7 Joulu 20161h 29min
