177: Sam Bankman-Fried – Leaving Wall Street, Entering Crypto Chaos
Chat With Traders22 Juli 2019

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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213: John Roberson – An Obsession with Edge, Powered by Automation

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212: Kristjan Kullamägi – Breakouts, Home Runs & Exponential Returns

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211: Stan Gluzman – One Bias, One Objective: Make Money

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210: Ryan Hasson – Scalp, Scalp, Swing—Maximizing Market Opportunities

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