Podcast Episodes

Turney Duff – A Wall Street Trader’s Tale of Spectacular Excess

Episode 106

Turney Duff was a hedge fund trader on Wall Street who lead a truly excessive lifestyle. In 2013 he released a book about his experiences—titled, The Buy Side. And currently, Turney is a consultant o…

Published on 8 years, 11 months ago

Brendan Poots – How a Former Punter Pioneered a Premier Sports Betting Hedge Fund

Episode 105

Brendan Poots is the founder of sports betting hedge fund, The Priomha Group, who mainly bet on football, cricket, golf and also horse racing and tennis.

Priomha setup shop in Melbourne (Australia) in…

Published on 8 years, 11 months ago

Alex, @AT09_Trader – An Appetite For Risk, and Hitting Hard When Opportunity Arises

Episode 104

Alex (@AT09_Trader) is a 22-year old, discretionary day trader, who’s seen great results in the few years he’s been grinding away at this. He trades small caps, and he trades aggressively—as you’ll s…

Published on 9 years ago

Q5: Max Margenot – Good (and Not So Good) Uses of Machine Learning in Finance

Machine learning is a hot topic right now, with a lot of people wondering how it could be used in finance and trading. Used naively, machine learning poses a great deal of risk. We’ll discuss why tha…

Published on 9 years ago

Dave Bergstrom – Escaping Randomness, and Turning to Data for an Edge

Episode 103

On this episode, I’m joined by a quant trader who works at a high frequency trading firm—though you might be surprised to hear, he started out on the same path that many retail traders do—his name is…

Published on 9 years ago

Q4: Scott Sanderson – Portfolio Optimization: Risk Preferences In, Trades Out

When one has a price model that they think will work well for forecasting returns, the next step is to actually trade it. This isn’t that simple for a variety of reasons. For one thing, you need to d…

Published on 9 years ago

Eugene Soltes – Unraveling a $65-Billion Ponzi Scheme and Notorious Cases of Insider Trading

Episode 102

Eugene Soltes is an author and finance professor at Harvard Business School.

Over the past eight years, give or take, he’s spent a lot of time with many big-time executives and professionals who have …

Published on 9 years ago

Q3: Jonathan Larkin – Seeking Alpha? Try MORE Alpha Factors

In practice, no one trading model will ever be that good on its own. Luckily statistics has come up with a lot of theory about how you can combine weaker models to create better overall predictions. …

Published on 9 years ago

Siam Kidd – Latching Onto Trends, Strategic Business Moves, and Breaking the Norm

Episode 101

My guest for episode 1-0-1 is Siam Kidd, from Norwich in the UK. He’s a former-air force pilot, turned retail trader. He’s also a serial entrepreneur, and on a quest to dramatically improve the schoo…

Published on 9 years ago

Q2: Jessica Stauth – Seeking Alpha? Try Alpha Factors

Factors are at the core of a modern quant equity workflow. This episode introduces the notion of alpha and risk factors at a high level, and delves into some of the use cases which include: understan…

Published on 9 years ago