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Hey all, I released a new episode this morning...

It's an interview with Derek Wong, who is the Director of Systematic Trading and Options at a private fund in Shanghai.

Here's the link if you'd like to listen: chatwithtraders.com/ep-097-derek-wong

Derek initially got his start in the CBOT agricultural pits, before working at various quant shops and moving to mainland China.

There's a lot of substance in this episode, and Derek speaks openly about topics such as:

- Emerging markets
- Cultural differences of Chinese investors
- Convergent/divergent strategies
- The three dimensions of diversification
- Different ways of thinking about your trading

Hope you find it interesting!

Aaron
 

I had a couple of beers with Derek when I last visited Beijing, top bloke and smart as a whip!
 
Wow, Better System Trader really is a fantastic product. Have been immersing myself in some of the interviews during work commutes. Very stimulating for weekend tweaking and general ideas. Some great work by Andrew Swanscott.
 
Another week, another episode....

This time around I spoke with Peter To, a day trader in New York:
https://chatwithtraders.com/ep-098-peter-to/

Before trading, Peter played online poker””and did so with a fair amount of success. When making the move into financial markets, he traded for a number of prop firms and had (very) mixed experiences.

So, in this episode we talk about both the good and the bad times of life as a prop trader, and we also discuss whether or not conventional trading wisdom is really wise at all.

For a full summary and to listen, just follow the link above

~ Aaron
 
Hey folks, a new episode is now available:

EP 099: What happens on a merchant trading desk””with energy veteran, Brynne Kelly

Brynne is an electricity, natural gas, and crude oil trader who’s spent the majority of her career on merchant trading desks, for the likes of BP, amongst others. She's also been a prop trader and is experienced as a hedge fund portfolio manager.

Listening to this episode you'll gain great insight to how things work from the merchant side, and how Brynne trained and managed newer traders, as well as some talk about fundamentals and macro trends.

Please enjoy!

- Aaron
 
Ladies and gents,

I've just released the one hundredth episode of Chat With Traders podcast!

My guest is a (very successful) independent day trader, Bao””or more commonly known as Modern Rock, on Twitter. To listen to this episode, just follow this link:

EP 100: Overcome adversity, dominate a niche, become ‘the house’ – Bao, @Modern_Rock

During the interview we speak about avoiding complacency, the greatest trade of Bao’s career, discovering a niche, managing confidence, tips for consistency, how to progress as a developing trader, plus more.

Hope you dig it!

- Aaron
 
Long time listener and have listened to pretty much all of the episodes, great work Aaron.

I noticed a couple of recent guests seem a bit 'interesting' take for example your guest from EP100, he talks about Gurus who sell ****, fake traders and goes about saying such people make all their money from selling shi!t..

Anyway quick search on Google and I found the following:

https://www.investorsunderground.com/modern-rock-dvd/

How to make billions for $39......



Seems a bit 'scammery' but I dont know
 

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Bit hard to tell whether it's someone just using his name and picture without his consent.

What terrible photoshopping as well!

Modest said:
How to make billions for $39......
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Convert US$39 into Zimbabwean currency?
 
Modest said:
I noticed a couple of recent guests seem a bit 'interesting'
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You mean the bloke who reckons he turned $20 into $20,000 playing on line poker. That's b.s. I have listened to several podcasts and have found the occasional insight in the waffle.
 

Since you brought up this up..I haven't listened to the episode yet but I'm interested to hear what he say about that part.

I like what Aaron's trying to do, especially since it's free. My problem with it is the guru part. I don't believe there is much verification of real trading done. I think for every guest he should be screen sharing with them while they opened up their brokerage statements for past few years and their results partially disclosed/summarised like in the Market Wizard books so we can actually know who we are hearing/learning from. But I would bet a LARGE majority of interviewees will decline the interview.

For them it's free publicity. Quite a few of them are selling stuff, free promotion is always good. Most of them are "social" Twitter traders - any publicity to attract following is good. There's a few guys on the list who's courses are just pure rehashed garbage. On the positive side there are great big name interviewees who've got nothing to prove & gain like Schwaeger & Raschke who just love trading and giving back.

At the end of day, Aaron is running a business, he gets paid from sponsors and needs the traffic so he kinda needs the volume of interviewees.

Just my opinion, I'm sure someone somewhere gets something out of every interview even if the source is questionable..
 
I believe Aaron has narrowed his focus now to mostly traders that don't offer anything in terms of education or coaching....
 
If someone listens to a podcast and then buys something from the interviewee, I think it is fair to say they were going to blow their $$$ at some stage anyway
 
minwa said:
I think it's a joke ? The Preorder link goes to https://www.investorsunderground.com/april-fools/
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Ahh... Cool so he has a good sense of humour! Thanks for pointing that out minwa, I'm pretty neutral about the guy now.

It was rather interesting how candid and open he was in the interview he pretty much openly said he was pumping and dumping stocks in the early days, he confirmed this indirectly about having to learn how to trade NASDAQ after he was taken down......kinda implies he didn't know Technical Analysis before being shut down.
 
Far out, I feel bad for the guy he is copping a lot of **** on twitter and people are posting his address online.

https://twitter.com/modern_rock




I guess thats what can happen if you want recognition. Maybe this explains why there are so few successful traders contributing to online communities.
 
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