Podcast Episodes

Matthew Hoyle – Getting Hired—Who Trading Firms and Hedge Funds Are Seeking Out

Episode 125

Matthew Hoyle was once a trader, or more specifically, an options market maker. And he started at a very young age, on the exchange floor in Amsterdam. But since 2003, he’s been in the headhunting (o…

Published on 8 years, 7 months ago

Max, @Madaznfootballr – When Chasing a Quick Buck Becomes Making a Quick Buck

Episode 124

Max got into trading about six years ago, after a co-worker pulled up in a brand new Lotus Elise—paid for with gains from trading BP stock. Working as an engineer at the time, with average pay, it wa…

Published on 8 years, 7 months ago

Darren Reed – Grit, Hustle, Intent—and Environment

Episode 123

Darren Reed (@LiftTheOffer) has been a stock broker, the head trader at a $300M hedge fund, and an active prop trader at Australian firms, Propex, Aliom and Gensis. At the later two, he also mentored…

Published on 8 years, 7 months ago

Doug Cifu – Virtu: Hitting Singles All Day Long—On a Global Scale

Episode 122

Doug Cifu is the co-founder and CEO of Virtu Financial, one of the largest electronic market making firms in the world. Around the clock, Virtu are trading in 12,000 instruments, across 235 markets a…

Published on 8 years, 8 months ago

Michael Mauboussin – Tactics for Better Decision Making, and Skill Versus Luck

Episode 121

Michael Mauboussin is a Managing Director and Head of Global Financial Strategies at Credit Suisse. He’s also a professor of finance at Columbia Business School, and the author of several books, such…

Published on 8 years, 8 months ago

Meb Faber – A Crash Course in Long-Term Investing—For Short-Term Traders

Episode 120

Mebane Faber is the founder and CIO at Cambria Investment Management, where he manages Cambria’s ETFs, separate accounts and private investment funds. He’s also authored numerous white papers and fiv…

Published on 8 years, 8 months ago

Alex, @TAGRtrades – What This Day Trader Learned After Four Years of Abandoning a Secure Job

Episode 119

Alex (@TAGRtrades) is a 27-year old day trader, from Texas. He’s been trading full-time for four years, and has really begun to hit his stride. Alex closed Q1 of 2017 with a $49,000 gain, after going…

Published on 8 years, 8 months ago

Manoj Narang – Trading Technology, Alternative Data and Originality

Episode 118

High-speed trading veteran, Manoj Narang, originally worked on Wall St for the likes of Credit Suisse and Goldman Sachs prior to founding Tradeworx, which became one of the larger trading firms in th…

Published on 8 years, 8 months ago

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

Episode 117

Larry Alintoff was a prop trader for Paul Tudor Jones, before running the largest group of traders on the AMEX (at the time). When he later went over to the NYBOT, Larry became the largest trader in …

Published on 8 years, 9 months ago

Sean Hendelman – Taking Losses, Ultimately Winning, and Keeping Pace With Markets

Episode 116

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 …

Published on 8 years, 9 months ago