I'm currently in Sydney for a week doing some work, and I'm staying in one of the hotels near circular quay, overlooking Sydney Harbour. I won't share name of the hotel because it's a well-known name, and it's actually a really nice hotel... However I had an experience with them when I was … [Read more...]
101 – Trading Price Patterns with Brent Penfold
Most trading strategies are built to find repeatable patterns in the market and then attempt to exploit any future occurrences of the pattern to make a profit. There are lots of different ways to find patterns, and in this episode Brent Penfold talks to us about patterns in price action. Brent … [Read more...]
097 – Optimization Myths with Jack Schwager
Jack Schwager needs no introduction. He's a well known expert in the industry, working for some of wall streets leading firms and is also one of the founders of FundSeeder. Plus, he's the author of the best-selling series of 'Market Wizards' books, which I'm sure most traders on this earth … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
020 – Trading Insights from 50+ years – Larry Williams
Larry Williams has been trading futures and stocks for over 50 years. In 1987 he won the World Cup Championship of Futures Trading ®*, turning $10,000 in to over $1.1 million in 12 months, that’s a cool 11,000% return and the highest return to ever be achieved in that competition. 10 years later … [Read more...]
018 – Gap Trading – Scott ‘The Gap Guy’ Andrews
Scott Andrews is the CEO and Co-Founder of InvestiQuant, an innovative financial services company providing quantitative research, tools, and services to active investors and traders around the globe. Scott has been trading full time since 2004, finding great success trading the opening gap … [Read more...]
017 – Systematic Trend Following – Jerry Parker
I'm sure we've all heard the story of the Turtle Traders, the legendary trading experiment conducted by Richard Dennis and William Eckhardt to see whether great traders were born or made, producing over $100 million in profits. Jerry Parker started his trading career in 1983 as one of the … [Read more...]
016 – Creating Robust Strategies – Andrea Unger
Andrea Unger is the only trader to ever win the World Cup Championship of Futures Trading ®* titles 3 years in a row, with returns of 672% in 2008 (futures division), 115% in 2009 (futures division) and 240% in 2010 (futures & forex division). In 2012 he also took out first place in the Q4 … [Read more...]