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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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...

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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

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...

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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...

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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...

2 Feb 20171h 9min

109: Edward Thorp – The Man Who Beat the Dealer, and Later, Beat the Market

109: Edward Thorp – The Man Who Beat the Dealer, and Later, Beat the Market

I’m not sure how to best say this, but Edward Thorp, is kind of a big deal… Not only in the world of financial markets, but he’s also a household name amongst the gambling scene. He’s the man who beat...

26 Jan 20171h 4min

Q6: Delaney Mackenzie – Your Quantitative Trading Questions Answered

Q6: Delaney Mackenzie – Your Quantitative Trading Questions Answered

Throughout this series, which has been a window into the workflow of professional quant trading firms, we’ve encouraged you to submit questions and requests for further clarification. So, in this epis...

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