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

Episoder(323)

143: Michael Kimelman – Convicted of Insider Trading—From Suburban Life to Prison Life

143: Michael Kimelman – Convicted of Insider Trading—From Suburban Life to Prison Life

You’re about to hear a first-hand account from someone who’s been on a wild ride through the U.S. justice system. My guest is Michael Kimelman; a former prop trader and hedge fund manager who was conv...

21 Sep 20171h 14min

142: Bert Mouler – Using Creative Thought and Automation to Bypass Human Flaws

142: Bert Mouler – Using Creative Thought and Automation to Bypass Human Flaws

It was exactly 100-episodes ago when I first had Bert Mouler on the podcast. This week, I’m joined by him again for a second interview… Bert is an algorithmic trader with a serious focus on machine le...

14 Sep 20171h 11min

141: Erik Townsend – Software Millionaire Fooled by ‘The Dream’ and Saved by Global Macro

141: Erik Townsend – Software Millionaire Fooled by ‘The Dream’ and Saved by Global Macro

Featuring on this episode is former software entrepreneur turned hedge fund manager, Erik Townsend. I’m sure some will already be quite familiar with Erik—in particular the macro investing crowd, as E...

6 Sep 20171h 34min

140: Jimmy Soni – The Life and Times of Genius Problem Solver, Claude Shannon

140: Jimmy Soni – The Life and Times of Genius Problem Solver, Claude Shannon

My guest on this episode is Jimmy Soni—who, with his co-author Rob Goodman, recently wrote the biography of Claude Shannon, titled; A Mind at Play. Shannon was born in 1916 and became one of the forem...

31 Aug 20171h 17min

139: Bobby Cho – Making Way for the 'Whales' of Cryptocurrency Markets

139: Bobby Cho – Making Way for the 'Whales' of Cryptocurrency Markets

Bobby Cho is a cryptocurrency trader at Cumberland Mining—which is a company of DRW Trading. Ever since getting involved in financial markets, during 2008, he has gravitated towards mostly illiquid/di...

24 Aug 201742min

138: Kevin Muir – In Search of the Next Great Trade—with The Macro Tourist

138: Kevin Muir – In Search of the Next Great Trade—with The Macro Tourist

During the 90’s, Kevin Muir was a proprietary derivatives trader for RBC Dominion Securities. In 2000, Kevin branched out to begin trading independently, and since 2014, he’s been writing a daily blog...

17 Aug 20171h 25min

137: Dr. William Ziemba – The Horse Bettor Exploiting Anomalies in Financial Markets

137: Dr. William Ziemba – The Horse Bettor Exploiting Anomalies in Financial Markets

Dr. William Ziemba’s an academic, a practitioner, gambler, trader and an author. He’s worked with and consulted to many well-respected names in the field, such as; Edward Thorp, Blair Hull and the ver...

10 Aug 20171h 20min

136: Mike Agne – Take Care of the Short Term; Take Care of the Long Term

136: Mike Agne – Take Care of the Short Term; Take Care of the Long Term

I first interviewed Mike at CWTNYC, in May 2017. The 100-listeners (give or take) who attended, will already be very familiar with Mike and there may be a few moments of déjà vu throughout this episod...

3 Aug 20171h 17min

Populært innen Business og økonomi

stopp-verden
lydartikler-fra-aftenposten
dine-penger-pengeradet
e24-podden
rss-penger-polser-og-politikk
rss-borsmorgen-okonominyhetene
pengepodden-2
tid-er-penger-en-podcast-med-peter-warren
utbytte
pengesnakk
liberal-halvtime
livet-pa-veien-med-jan-erik-larssen
morgenkaffen-med-finansavisen
rss-markedspuls-2
finansredaksjonen
rss-pa-konto
lederpodden
rss-politisk-preik
rss-investering-gjort-enkelt
stormkast-med-valebrokk-stordalen