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OI19 BONUS: Living With Ed Seykota ft. David Druz
Dave Druz spent six months living with Ed Seykota - not shadowing a trading system, but watching a way of being. In this bonus episode, he shares what that experience revealed: a style built on instinct, pattern, and total psychological clarity. No screens. No signals. Just presence. Dave tried to trade that way himself - made 300%, unraveled, and walked away. What emerges is less a portrait of Seykota than a meditation on the limits of imitation, the pressure of performance, and the discipline it takes to trade like yourself - especially after witnessing someone who doesn’t.
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Episode TimeStamps:
02:21 - Introduction to part 2
02:57 - Anecdotes from Druz' time working with Ed Seykota
06:46 - The best trader the world has ever seen
17:13 - The optimal bet size
21:24 - What Druz learned from working with Seykota
25:45 - Key lessons for managing drawdowns
27:57 - How does one gets to become an apprentice of Ed Seykota
33:00 - Living with Ed Seykota
35:19 - Seykota's 10.000 dollar cookie mania
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