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
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
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
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
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
135: Sheelah Kolhatkar – How Mastermind Trader, Steven Cohen, Bent Rules and Made Billions
Sheelah Kolhatkar is a writer at the The New Yorker, who was previously a journalist at Bloomberg Businessweek, and prior to that, a hedge fund analyst. She’s also the author of New York Times bestsel...
27 Jul 201743min
134: BTCVIX – Bitcoin: The Magic Internet Money You Can No Longer Ignore
On this episode, I have a returning guest—who first appeared on episode 53. His name is a mystery, but he goes by the handle: @BTCVIX Episode 53 was the first time I covered Bitcoin on this podcast, a...
20 Jul 20171h 16min
133: James King – Using Sports Science to Stack Probability in Favor of Trading Success
Up until recently, James King was the Performance Director at a commodity trading firm in London, Mandara Capital. And it was here that he implemented scientific methods to stack probability in the fa...
13 Jul 20171h 9min
