177: Sam Bankman-Fried – Leaving Wall Street, Entering Crypto Chaos

177: Sam Bankman-Fried – Leaving Wall Street, Entering Crypto Chaos

This episode features Sam Bankman-Fried, who’s trading skill originated from 3-years at Jane Street—a proprietary trading firm renown for being one of the world’s largest ETF liquidity providers. In late-2017, Sam relocated to Hong Kong and began his foray into the cryptocurrency market when he co-founded Alameda Research. Alameda trade a range of quantitative strategies—such as statistical arbitrage and market making—which are mostly automated, but with a layer of human intervention. Within 2-years Alameda has grown to a point, where each day, it does approximately one billion dollars of turnover across 35 exchanges, accounting for somewhere near 5% of global crypto volume. Sam and I got to discuss many aspects of how Alameda operate and how his team have found lucrative opportunity amongst a chaotic environment… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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238: Public Service Announcement

238: Public Service Announcement

What does the future hold for Chat With Traders podcast? An evolution is on the horizon. Full details revealed in this episode—featuring Aaron Fifield and Tessa Dao. Learn more about your ad choices. ...

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237: Mary Childs – Biggest ‘n Baddest, Billionaire Bond Trader: Bill Gross

237: Mary Childs – Biggest ‘n Baddest, Billionaire Bond Trader: Bill Gross

Mary Childs—a financial journalist and co-host of NPR’s Planet Money—is author of The Bond King; a biography about industry titan, billionaire bond trader Bill Gross. Bill co-founded Pacific Investmen...

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236: Lance Breitstein – The Ultimate Day Trader, Pt. 3

236: Lance Breitstein – The Ultimate Day Trader, Pt. 3

The promised and much-anticipated follow-up interview with Lance Breitstein… Lance was formerly a Senior Trader at proprietary firm Trillium. He earned the rank as ‘Top Trader’ in 2020 and 2021 with c...

27 Jun 20221h 23min

235: Chris Cady – A Lifetime Student of Markets

235: Chris Cady – A Lifetime Student of Markets

Today, I bring you a man who’s truly seen it all: Chris Cady Having surpassed 40-years as an equity index trader, Chris has lived through every type of market environment imaginable and reinvented him...

13 Jun 20221h 11min

234: Domer – The Information Edge: Winning in Prediction Markets

234: Domer – The Information Edge: Winning in Prediction Markets

While many are only hearing about prediction markets for the first time, for near a decade, anonymous trader Domer (@Domahhhh) has been at the frontier of profiting from outcomes of unknown future eve...

24 Mai 202256min

233: Kenny Sharkness – Blowout Loss Creates a Cold-Blooded Killer

233: Kenny Sharkness – Blowout Loss Creates a Cold-Blooded Killer

This year I’ve brought you some truly phenomenal traders and it continues, right here… Kenny Sharkness (aka Shark) is one of the greatest success stories to come out of proprietary trading firm SMB Ca...

28 Apr 202253min

232: Nishant Porbanderwalla – Trade Recap: Manic Meme-Stock, Profound Profit

232: Nishant Porbanderwalla – Trade Recap: Manic Meme-Stock, Profound Profit

Nishant Porbanderwalla—a senior trader at proprietary firm Kershner Trading Group—is no stranger to the show. In his third appearance on Chat With Traders, Nish recaps how he booked an outsized six-fi...

12 Apr 202236min

231: James Chen – Obscure Edges, Outsized Alpha

231: James Chen – Obscure Edges, Outsized Alpha

James Chen is an equities trader and a partner at Sydney-based fund BlueLake Partners. Furthermore, he’s a heavy-hitter who operates on a different level to most… For well over a decade, James has bee...

28 Mar 20221h 2min

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