023: David Bush – The Transition From Discretionary to Quantitative Trading & How to Optimise Your Strategy

023: David Bush – The Transition From Discretionary to Quantitative Trading & How to Optimise Your Strategy

I was fortunate enough to speak with David Bush, an extraordinary, seasoned trader with 20 years experience in financial markets. David comes from a non-traditional background, and what I mean by this; he has no formal education in the field of finance. In fact, he is a music graduate and performed as a professional musician for many years. But as you’re about to hear, David changed paths during his twenties to become a trader. After overcoming the initial challenges that all new market participants endure, David did well for himself as a discretionary trader for many years. But with an urge to optimize his trading approach he gradually transitioned into a quantitative trader and went searching for new ways to exploit opportunities within the market. From there David has gone on to take out the number one spot of BattleFin’s ‘Sharpe Ratio Shootout’ (an international quantitative finance tournament), with over 3000 competitors. During our interview David brings a really insightful take to topics such as the transition from discretionary to quantitative trading, how to eliminate a single point of failure by trading multiple systems, and how the Monte Carlo tool can teach you a lot about how robust your strategy really is. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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

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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 ...

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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...

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

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

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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

110: George, @RollyTrader – Learning to Trade, Momentum Setups, and Becoming a Venture Capitalist

110: George, @RollyTrader – Learning to Trade, Momentum Setups, and Becoming a Venture Capitalist

On this episode, I’m joined by George—who goes by @RollyTrader on Twitter. George is an Australian equities trader, with a momentum/swing trading type of approach. In the past, George has held a few f...

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