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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118: Manoj Narang – Trading Technology, Alternative Data and Originality

118: Manoj Narang – Trading Technology, Alternative Data and Originality

High-speed trading veteran, Manoj Narang, originally worked on Wall St for the likes of Credit Suisse and Goldman Sachs prior to founding Tradeworx, which became one of the larger trading firms in the...

30 Mar 201758min

117: Larry Alintoff – Traders' Opportunity—When Things That "Should" Happen, Don't Happen

117: Larry Alintoff – Traders' Opportunity—When Things That "Should" Happen, Don't Happen

Larry Alintoff was a prop trader for Paul Tudor Jones, before running the largest group of traders on the AMEX (at the time). When he later went over to the NYBOT, Larry became the largest trader in t...

23 Mar 20171h 11min

116: Sean Hendelman – Taking Losses, Ultimately Winning, and Keeping Pace With Markets

116: Sean Hendelman – Taking Losses, Ultimately Winning, and Keeping Pace With Markets

Sean Hendelman is the co-founder and CEO of T3 Companies. T3 is one of the larger proprietary trading firms in the U.S. And incase you’re curious, the three T’s of T3 stand for; trading, training and ...

16 Mar 20171h 6min

115: Adam Grimes – What Hand Traders Can Learn From System Traders, and Vice Versa

115: Adam Grimes – What Hand Traders Can Learn From System Traders, and Vice Versa

Adam Grimes has been a trader for more than 20-years, he’s traded all major asset classes, across various timeframes. He’s traded independently, with a prop firm, and he’s run other trading businesses...

9 Mar 20171h 47min

114: Brannigan Barrett – The Process of Becoming a Bigger (and Better) Trader

114: Brannigan Barrett – The Process of Becoming a Bigger (and Better) Trader

Brannigan Barrett is a futures day trader—who trades a total of eight markets, across; bonds, equity indices, currencies and commodities. He was previously a trader at prop firm, Futex, but is now par...

2 Mar 20171h 10min

113: Benjamin Small – Normalizing Bitcoin, and Exploring the Cryptocurrency Ecosystem

113: Benjamin Small – Normalizing Bitcoin, and Exploring the Cryptocurrency Ecosystem

Benjamin Small is an electrical engineering PhD. He’s worked in quantitative research roles since 2006, at UBS, Citadel, Credit Suisse and the stock exchange, IEX. Today though, Ben is head of market ...

23 Feb 20171h

112: Jorge Soltero – Reminiscences of a Trader at Hull Trading Co.—and a Sell-Side Career

112: Jorge Soltero – Reminiscences of a Trader at Hull Trading Co.—and a Sell-Side Career

Jorge Soltero began as a floor trader in Chicago, where he was an options market maker. A few years into his career, he landed a position at Hull Trading Company (the renowned firm of legendary trader...

16 Feb 20171h 12min

111: David Bush – Strategy Objectives, Statistical Significance, and Market Behavior

111: David Bush – Strategy Objectives, Statistical Significance, and Market Behavior

Returning to Chat With Traders for a second time is David Bush—first on episode 23. David began as a discretionary trader, more than 20-years ago, but over time he’s developed into a quant trader. And...

9 Feb 20171h 19min

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