Via Chat with Traders 210: Scalp, Scalp, Swing—Maximizing Market Opportunities w/ Ryan Hasson Aaron Fifield January 20, 2021 Podcast Leave a Comment Ryan Hasson’s a senior trader at Kershner Trading Group/SMB Capital—having joined the firm’s New York office in 2016, after booking a one-way flight from Cape Town, SA. Ryan may be best described as...
Via Chat with Traders 209: Contrarian Stances on Fundamental Inflection Points w/ Neeraj Monga Aaron Fifield December 30, 2020 Podcast Leave a Comment For more than a decade, Neeraj Monga was Head of Research at Veritas—a Canadian independent equity research firm—where he published numerous stock reports that garnered plenty of attention from investors, analysts and...
Via Chat with Traders 208: Adopting Systems to Improve Decision Making and Trade Results w/ Brannigan Barrett Aaron Fifield December 10, 2020 Podcast Leave a Comment Having traded prop for a large part of his career, Brannigan Barrett has since branched out and backed himself by establishing Habitus Capital—a private, discretionary fund that trades select...
Via Chat with Traders 207: Evolving Trends—How Quants Are Earning Alpha w/ Rishi Narang Aaron Fifield November 26, 2020 Podcast Leave a Comment Rishi Narang’s the founding principal of T2AM, a fund-of-funds investment manager with a sole focus of allocating to quantitative strategies. He’s also the author of Inside the Black Box, an advisor to...
Via Chat with Traders 206: The Investigative Research of an Activist Short Seller w/ Dan David Aaron Fifield November 12, 2020 Podcast Leave a Comment Dan David is the founder of Wolfpack Research, a short-biased firm that goes to great lengths to meticulously understand the business operations, technical aspects and financials of listed companies. When...
Via Chat with Traders 205: Day Trading—The Questions You Want Answered w/ Michael Katz Aaron Fifield October 22, 2020 Podcast Leave a Comment Active equities trader and managing partner of proprietary trading firm Seven Points Capital, Michael Katz, returns for a third appearance on Chat With Traders. As we’ve previously done a regular interview and...
Via Chat with Traders 204: Esports Pro Attains High Score Playing the Stock Market — Brian Lee Aaron Fifield October 7, 2020 Podcast Leave a Comment Three years ago, Brian Lee—a former esports professional—took a leap into day trading equities. Having since developed a talent for shorting the backside of inflated moves, paired with a...
Via Chat with Traders 203: The Pursuit of Edge w/ Bob Bright Aaron Fifield September 17, 2020 Podcast Leave a Comment Casino floor or trading floor, Bob Bright has forever sought an edge for favorable odds… Counting cards in Las Vegas, calculating three-way options at the Pacific Exchange, pairs trading correlated stocks, exploiting the tracking...
Via Chat with Traders 202: Betting Against Stability w/ Wayne Himelsein Aaron Fifield September 3, 2020 Podcast Leave a Comment Wayne Himelsein begun his career on a proprietary trading desk at Carlin Financial Group in the mid-90’s, doing statistical arbitrage—complimentary to his mathematical nature. Come 1999, Wayne launched his first fund to begin managing money...
Via Chat with Traders 201: The Legwork, Execution and Management of Institutional Investments w/ Hayden Beamish Aaron Fifield August 20, 2020 Podcast Leave a Comment For the past 5-years, Hayden Beamish has been a portfolio manager and director at Endeavor Asset Management—a hedge fund based in Melbourne, with ~$300m AUM. The Hedge portfolio that Hayden...
Via Chat with Traders 200: Best of Trading Psychology, Pt. 2 Aaron Fifield August 6, 2020 Podcast Leave a Comment Listen to part one: Click here As an extension of the previous episode, I present to you the second installment for the ‘Best of Trading Psychology.’ Taken from past episodes of Chat With Traders, this...
Via Chat with Traders 199: Best of Trading Psychology, Pt. 1 Aaron Fifield July 23, 2020 Podcast Leave a Comment Much like the recent Best of Risk Management episodes, here’s another compilation. Except this time, I’ve compiled the best clips on trading psychology, for you to hear how varying types of traders deal with mindset...
Via Chat with Traders 198: Dorm Room Start-Up Defies Odds, Rises as Large-Scale Quant Fund w/ Christina Qi Aaron Fifield July 2, 2020 Podcast Leave a Comment In her early-20’s, after graduating from MIT, Christina Qi and two classmates; Luca Lin and Jonathan Wang—who had collectively been trading futures from a campus dorm room—founded Domeyard....
Via Chat with Traders 197: Accelerating High-Speed Traders to Higher Speeds w/ Haim Ben Ami Aaron Fifield June 18, 2020 Podcast Leave a Comment Featuring on this episode is Haim Ben Ami; CEO of Raft Technologies. Having constructed shortwave radio towers in Chicago, Frankfurt and London, Raft have established ultra-low latency connections between various exchanges,...
Via Chat with Traders 196 · My First Year Trading Full-Time: Prop Trader, Ryan Trost Aaron Fifield June 4, 2020 Podcast Leave a Comment For this third episode in the My First Year Trading Full-Time series, I speak with Ryan Trost. At the time of recording, Ryan had recently crossed 12-months as a junior equities...
Via Chat with Traders 195: The Inner Workings of an ETF Manager w/ Ilan Israelstam Aaron Fifield May 21, 2020 Podcast Leave a Comment Ilan Israelstam’s a co-founder of Australian ETF manager BetaShares and a principal at VC firm Apex Capital Partners. Betashares begun trading in 2010, and currently, it manages approximately $10-billion dollars in...
Via Chat with Traders 194: Bedroom Trader Amasses Fortune, Becomes Prime Suspect of Flash Crash w/ Liam Vaughan Aaron Fifield May 7, 2020 Podcast Leave a Comment Liam Vaughan is a finance author and senior reporter for Bloomberg. His latest book Flash Crash tells the story of Navinder Singh Sarao, a London trader, living at...
Via Chat with Traders 193: Dynamics and Themes Impacting the Global Oil Market w/ Greg Newman Aaron Fifield April 20, 2020 Podcast Leave a Comment Episode recorded: 2nd April 2020. Returning guest, Greg Newman, is a founding partner and the CEO of Onyx Commodities—a London-based proprietary trading firm, prominent in market making of oil derivatives....
Via Chat with Traders 192: ‘Whatever it Takes’—How Reserve Banks React to Economic Pressure w/ Kevin Muir Aaron Fifield April 6, 2020 Podcast Leave a Comment As we’ve seen making headlines recently, reserve banks around the world have been adding liquidity to the market in an effort to stabilize economies. While some listeners will already...
Via Chat with Traders 191: Extreme Volatility—Trading Markets During a Global Pandemic w/ Nishant Porbanderwalla Aaron Fifield March 23, 2020 Podcast Leave a Comment This is an episode to cover the extreme volatility in markets, following the recent outbreak of coronavirus… Joining me is Nishant Porbanderwalla, returning for a second time on Chat With Traders...