

Chat With Traders
Ian Cox and Tessa Dao
Chat With Traders is your key to the minds of trading's elite performers. Start listening to learn how a diverse mix of traders went from zero to hero, how they successfully trade markets today, and get their best tips 'n pointers for profitable performance, plus much more. Note: You are responsible for your own trading decisions—this is not financial advice.
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Jun 13, 2022 • 1h 13min
235: Chris Cady – A Lifetime Student of Markets
Today, I bring you a man who’s truly seen it all: Chris CadyHaving surpassed 40-years as an equity index trader, Chris has lived through every type of market environment imaginable and reinvented himself several times over. But is experience all it’s hyped up to be? Well, that’s the opening line for our chat…From there, Chris delves into some of the best/worst times throughout his career in futures markets—and shares a captivating story about the “radical” silver traders and infamous Hunt Brothers. Later, Chris lays out his trading philosophy of “structure and process” and use of market profile analysis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

May 24, 2022 • 57min
234: Domer – The Information Edge: Winning in Prediction Markets
While many are only hearing about prediction markets for the first time, for near a decade, anonymous trader Domer (@Domahhhh) has been at the frontier of profiting from outcomes of unknown future events.Political and economic matters are Domer’s specialty, although he doesn’t shy away from the rather abstract events either—for example; trading on the outcome of Britney Spear’s conservatorship and the Suez Canal obstruction!Now at a point where he’s netting PnL of several hundred thousand dollars a year (across multiple exchanges), much of Domer’s winnings are due to his ability to garner an information edge and rejection of the Efficient Market Hypothesis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Apr 28, 2022 • 55min
233: Kenny Sharkness – Blowout Loss Creates a Cold-Blooded Killer
This year I’ve brought you some truly phenomenal traders and it continues, right here…Kenny Sharkness (aka Shark) is one of the greatest success stories to come out of proprietary trading firm SMB Capital. In the span of a decade, he’s gone from being clueless about bids/offers to having realised eight-figure years.After reflecting on his first steps as an aspiring day trader, Kenny tells of a monumental loss that had a positively profound impact, and the ways in which he’s continually pushed boundaries to remain a top performing trader. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Apr 12, 2022 • 38min
232: Nishant Porbanderwalla – Trade Recap: Manic Meme-Stock, Profound Profit
Nishant Porbanderwalla—a senior trader at proprietary firm Kershner Trading Group—is no stranger to the show. In his third appearance on Chat With Traders, Nish recaps how he booked an outsized six-figure profit trading meme-stock NASDAQ: DWAC (Digital World Acquisition Corp).The date was 22nd October 2021, the day DWAC traded from $50 up to a high of $175, on news of a merger that would launch Donald Trump’s planned social media platform Truth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Mar 28, 2022 • 1h 4min
231: James Chen – Obscure Edges, Outsized Alpha
James Chen is an equities trader and a partner at Sydney-based fund BlueLake Partners. Furthermore, he’s a heavy-hitter who operates on a different level to most…For well over a decade, James has been discovering edges and developing trades that the typical trader would consider as rather obscure. And for that reason, we’re fortunate to have James on the record—being able to learn about how his brain ticks.Our interview starts with James telling how he cut his teeth trading retail, then how he exploited a loophole in an ASX trading competition, won and got hired. Next, we discuss trades surrounding index rebalances and dual-listed stocks, and lastly, James imparts with comprehensive thoughts on finding alpha.—Application, Google Form: U.S. ADR Support Trader Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mar 13, 2022 • 1h 11min
230: Oliver Chalk – ETH Mining Experiment; Gateway to Full-Scale BTC Basis Trading
It was early-2017, Oliver was nearing the end of his high school years, when he had discovered Ethereum—or more accurately, the self-described tech-head had strapped together 6x GPU's for the purpose of mining Ethereum.Although the mining rig was only a mild success, it did plant the seed for what would become Proxima Capital—the crypto-focused trading firm Oliver co-founded in 2019, that almost exclusively dedicates its resources and capital into market-neutral strategies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Feb 22, 2022 • 54min
229: Lance Breitstein – The Ultimate Day Trader, Pt. 2
Lance Breitstein was a Senior Trader at proprietary trading firm Trillium and Manager of the Chicago office. He has trained, mentored and refined dozens of top discretionary intraday traders, while arguably being Trillium’s best trader in the firm’s history.This episode was recorded in 2019, prior to Lance going on to set the firm’s all-time PNL record, with landslide wins as ‘Top Trader’ in both 2020 and 2021 after consecutive 8-figure years. At the beginning of 2022, Lance resigned from Trillium to better focus on alternative growth opportunities and philanthropy.In part two of our (two part) conversation, Lance speaks to the uncertainty in stock markets and methods of developing pattern recognition, trading technology and optimisation, avoiding mediocrity, efforts in philanthropy and establishing the Impact Competition, plus more.This podcast solely reflects the views of Lance and is not representative of Trillium’s views. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Feb 9, 2022 • 1h 11min
228: Lance Breitstein – The Ultimate Day Trader, Pt. 1
Lance Breitstein was a Senior Trader at proprietary trading firm Trillium and Manager of the Chicago office. He has trained, mentored and refined dozens of top discretionary intraday traders, while arguably being Trillium’s best trader in the firm’s history.This episode was recorded in 2019, prior to Lance going on to set the firm’s all-time PNL record, with landslide wins as ‘Top Trader’ in both 2020 and 2021 after consecutive 8-figure years. At the beginning of 2022, Lance resigned from Trillium to better focus on alternative growth opportunities and philanthropy.In part one of our (two part) conversation, you’ll hear Lance expound upon his slow learning curve and how he was on the verge of quitting, systemized learning and repetition, the emotional edge in trading capitulations and more.This podcast solely reflects the views of Lance and is not representative of Trillium’s views. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jan 26, 2022 • 32min
227: Chase Galbraith – Trade Recap: Swing the Rumor, Sell the News
Trade Recap episodes are a new format (in addition to regular episodes), with the purpose of analyzing each aspect of a guests’ trade: idea, execution, management.Chase Galbraith is an Australian equities trader, with a firm foothold in small caps. The trade in focus today, Chase initiated and held between September – November 2021, in mineral exploration company Kingsrose Mining (ASX:KRM).This trade could be categorized as a swing, largely driven by fundamental factors and speculation of an acquisition. Though it also combines elements of tape reading and price action, with regard to execution. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Dec 16, 2021 • 1h 4min
225: Kyle Schultz – The Art and Science of Algorithmic Futures Trading
Kyle Schultz is the managing director of Ravinia Investment Management, a registered CTA, operating since April 2019.With an objective to diversify by market, strategy and timeframe, Kyle has developed multiple algorithmic strategies—for various futures products—that can be categorised into momentum and mean reversion, long and short, intraday and swing.Through our conversation, Kyle expounds on the art and science of developing and managing automated trading systems, and his unique way of doing things... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices