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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097: Derek Wong – How to Think About Strategies Like a Quant and Diversify Like a Boss

097: Derek Wong – How to Think About Strategies Like a Quant and Diversify Like a Boss

On this episode, I have our very first guest from China; Derek Wong—he is the Director of Systematic Trading and Options at a private fund in Shanghai. Initially though, Derek got his start in the agr...

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096: Nico, @InefficientMrkt – An Eight Year Overnight Success Story, and a Thirst for Momentum

096: Nico, @InefficientMrkt – An Eight Year Overnight Success Story, and a Thirst for Momentum

Nico (@InefficientMrkt on Twitter) is a day trader with a thirst for momentum. He predominately trades low-priced stocks that have a tendency to move fast and far—and roughly 90% of his positions are ...

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095: Adrian, @AdeyF69 – Why it Pays to be Relentlessly Process Driven, and When Stats Count

095: Adrian, @AdeyF69 – Why it Pays to be Relentlessly Process Driven, and When Stats Count

For this episode, the trader who I had the opportunity to speak with, and who you’re about to hear from, is Adrian—or @AdeyF69 on Twitter. Adrian was a pro sailor for almost two decades, but for the p...

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094: Kenny Glick – Shady Tales From a Real-Life Boiler Room, and Things Profitable Traders Do

094: Kenny Glick – Shady Tales From a Real-Life Boiler Room, and Things Profitable Traders Do

My guest on this episode is a former-stand up comedian, turned questionable stockbroker, turned day trader—folks, I’d like you to meet, Kenny Glick. During the 90’s, Kenny went from the stages of come...

13 Okt 20161h 20min

093: Ben, @BLB_Capital – What an Order Flow Fanatic Adapted From One of the 'Big Boys'

093: Ben, @BLB_Capital – What an Order Flow Fanatic Adapted From One of the 'Big Boys'

What you’re about to hear is a conversation I had with a short-term futures trader, Ben—whose last name we won’t mention only for privacy reasons, but he goes by @BLB_Capital on Twitter. Before enteri...

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092: Dario Mofardin – Observing the Whole Board, Building a Body of Evidence, Swinging at Fat Pitches

092: Dario Mofardin – Observing the Whole Board, Building a Body of Evidence, Swinging at Fat Pitches

For this episode I spoke with fund manager, Dario Mofardin. Dario went from a finance degree, straight into a market analyst and then trader position at a private global macro hedge fund, during the e...

29 Sep 20161h 2min

091: Craig Scott – Trading Fundamentals, Sentiment and Events, and Why Conviction Matters

091: Craig Scott – Trading Fundamentals, Sentiment and Events, and Why Conviction Matters

Craig Scott is someone who has been trading and investing for most of his life, first starting in school when he participated in a year long stock picking competition. Once completing a double major i...

22 Sep 20161h 6min

090: Michael Halls-Moore – This Quants' Approach to Designing Algo Strategies

090: Michael Halls-Moore – This Quants' Approach to Designing Algo Strategies

For this episode I’m joined by Michael Halls-Moore, who runs QuantStart.com—a site well-known by many algorithmic traders. Prior to trading, Michael studied computational fluid dynamics and was the co...

15 Sep 20161h 17min

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