Have you ever wondered what exactly is it that makes a trader successful? Is it based on personality? A specific approach to the markets? Pure luck? Dr Brett Steenbarger is a trader and performance coach, and gets heavily involved in the recruitment process for trading firms. He gets to interview traders, see how they work and…
095 – What makes a successful trader?
094 – Cornering the market with Kurt Sakaeda
How many traders do you know that have successfully cornered a market? If you’re not familiar with the term ‘corner the market’, it means to get enough control of a commodity, stock or other asset so that you can manipulate the price. There are a number of documented cases in history where people have tried……
093 – Trading in an emergency
Last week I had to make an emergency trip to the hospital. It highlighted a gap in my trading ‘operation’ (pardon the pun) so I wanted to share that with you so that you can learn from my mistakes. How will your trading handle an emergency? Got A Question, Topic or Guest you want…
092 – Trading for a Living with Nick Radge
Have you ever dreamed of leaving your day job to trade for a living? Or living a life of freedom – travelling the world or hanging around at home, doing whatever you like during the day while you live off your trading profits? When I first started getting into trading I had this grand vision…
091 – Leveraging Exits with Laurent Bernut
“When you have a bad entry, you can always work your way around it, but when you have a bad exit, this is final… This is when the P&L gets printed.” – Laurent Bernut Exits have such a dramatic impact on overall strategy performance, so having a full and proper understanding of the best way to…
090 – How to find trading ideas every single day
I recently received an email asking me where all the trading ideas are. I think every episode provides at least 1 idea of value, but one that stands out in my mind was the chat with Rob Hanna in episode 7. In that episode he share loads of trading ideas. But he also goes one…
089 – Automated trading – ‘Set and forget’ or ‘Forget and regret’?
One of the appeals of automated trading is… well… the automation (derr). You can ‘set it and forget it’ if you want. However there are some dangers with doing so. About a year and a half ago I went through a period of being a little bit slack with monitoring my strategies and there was one…
088 – Protect and Grow Capital during Market Corrections with Ivanhoff
Market corrections can be a stressful and challenging time for some traders, but it can also be a time of incredible opportunity. How can we not only protect our trading accounts but also grow our capital even further during market corrections? Our guest for this episode, @Ivanhoff, is author of the book ‘Crash: How to Protect…
087 – What’s your risk of ruin?
Earlier this week I was on a flight from LAX back to Melbourne. As we were sitting on the plane waiting for our departure I overheard a flight attendant say to a fellow passenger that one of the other planes had been struck by lightning causing delays to other flights. At the time I didn’t know…
086 – Why consider future market conditions?
“Basing your decisions on past data is like driving down the road, looking in the rear-view mirror“. For the most part, traders don’t know what’s going to happen in the future and never will. In the previous podcast episode, Gary Hart explains how considering future probabilities can be beneficial, suggesting traders “base decisions on the probable future…
085 – Intraday Trading Strategies with Gary Hart
Our guest for the episode is Gary Hart, the founder of Trendfinder Trading Systems, a company offering mechanical intra-day and swing trading strategies in futures. Gary has been trading futures for close to two decades now, becoming a member of the NFA and a registered CTA. He’s had a number of trading strategies take the top…
084 – Handling the impacts of market noise
One of the biggest challenges we face as traders is strategies that either fail or experience a reduction in performance over time. There are a number of possible causes for this, one obviously being changes in the market. In podcast Episode 10, Perry Kaufman discussed the change in the markets and how they’ve become noisier…
083 – How to get better at anything, faster
Last week I finished reading a book called ‘Peak – Secrets from the new science of expertise’. I wanted to share a concept from that book with you today because it contains a model that has the potential to: accelerate the learning process and dramatically increase our level of expertise in a short amount of…
082 – Machine Learning with Kris Longmore
Machine learning has seen a huge amount of growth over recent years with the increase in available data and processing power. It’s an incredibly powerful toolset for uncovering patterns and relationships in data, however, these tools can be challenging to learn, apply correctly and are also open to abuse. Our guest for the episode, Kris Longmore from…
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