The Derivative
By RCM Alternatives
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Welcome to The Derivative by RCM Alternatives, where we dive into what makes alternative investments go, analyze the strategies of unique hedge fund managers, and chat with interesting guests from across the investment world. Hosted by RCM Managing Partner, Jeff Malec, join us to take a ride through the world of alternative investments.
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The Polymath Pod: Jason Buck and Zed Francis talk rates, vol, and cheeseburgers?!
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Nov 14, 2024 |
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Retail to Institutional: How David Sun Scaled His ODTE Options Strategies
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Nov 07, 2024 |
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Blending Insurance and Credit Expertise: How Obra Capital Finds Opportunities in Unique Situations
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Oct 31, 2024 |
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Carmika Partners Unpack the August Volatility Spike and Complexities of Options Trading
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Oct 17, 2024 |
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Is there Alpha in boring old Muni-Bonds, with Riverbend Capital
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Oct 03, 2024 |
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Trend, Prop, and Being Allergic to Optimization with Bill Gebhardt of 10Dynamics
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Aug 29, 2024 |
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China Tech, Carbon, and Option Overlays in ETFs? Yep, with James Maund of KraneShares
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Aug 22, 2024 |
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Unpacking the Sell-Off! Awesome Insights from discretionary macro trader Asim Ghaffar
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Aug 08, 2024 |
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Hedge Fund Quants Unlock the Power of Dispersion: Versor's Unique Cross-Sectional Relative Value Approach
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Jul 25, 2024 |
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Volatility Vultures: Hunting for Options Talent with Gary Selz of Zero Delta
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Jun 27, 2024 |
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Carry On: Demystifying the Carry Trade with Rodrigo Gordillo & Adam Butler of ReSolve
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Jun 26, 2024 |
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Surviving Adversity, Building Resilience, and Evolving a Quantitative Investment Firm with Joe Kelly of Campbell
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May 02, 2024 |
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50 Charts showing the Current State of Volatility, with Jeremie Holdom and Colin Suvak of LongTail Alpha
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Apr 25, 2024 |
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Finding Alpha in Unexpected Places: Doug Greenig on Trend Following Beyond Developed Markets
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Mar 28, 2024 |
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Optimizing the Supply Chain: Private Equity, Automation, and Economic Indicators in Logistics with Chris Jamroz
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Mar 14, 2024 |
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Constructing A Systematic Oil Trader: Fueling growth at Cayler Capital
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Mar 07, 2024 |
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Miami Hedge Fund week Panel 2024 Part II: Increasing Accessibility of Alternative Investments
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Feb 29, 2024 |
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Set Phasers to Stocks+Discretionary Global Macro – with Dynamic Alpha
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Feb 22, 2024 |
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Miami Hedge Fund week panel 2024 - Commodities: Outlook on Prices, Volatility, and Portfolio Diversification
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Feb 15, 2024 |
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Advanced Hedge Fund Replication with the Top Down – riding diverse ETF modeling flows with DBi’s Andrew Beer
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Feb 08, 2024 |
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Marrying Fundamental Factors into Commodity Quant with Patrik Safvenblad of VOLT CM
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Nov 16, 2023 |
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A brief history of Corn, food co valuations, GMO vs non GMO, and a guacable chip with Zack’s Mighty founder Zack Gazzaniga
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Nov 09, 2023 |
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Trend Following Asset Allocations with Jon Robinson of Blueprint
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Oct 26, 2023 |
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Systematic Commodity Trading (without Trend) with Jae-Min Hyun of NWOne
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Oct 05, 2023 |
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A Philly Alts Steak: Talking Commodities, Stacking, and Systematic with Auspice, Newfound & Campbell
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Sep 28, 2023 |
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Opportunities in Option Mutual Funds with Russ Kellites
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Sep 21, 2023 |
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Long/Short Commodities with Emil van Essen & Bryan Kiernan of Katonah/EVE
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Sep 14, 2023 |
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Portfolios of Power Futures with AMPD ETF’s Tim Kramer
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Aug 31, 2023 |
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Why Systematic? Why CTA? Why Now? A panel event with Mercer, Campbell, EMC Capital, & Resolve
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Jul 27, 2023 |
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Trend Following Plus Nothing with Jerry Parker
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Jul 20, 2023 |
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The World of Equity Hedging, Part II with Jason Buck
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Jul 13, 2023 |
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Volatility (LIVE IN VEGAS) panel discussion
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Jun 29, 2023 |
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Replicating Babies, Trend Following, Hedge Funds, and Warren Buffet with Corey Hoffstein
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Jun 15, 2023 |
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Global EQD ’23 Breakdown with Jason Buck (part 1)
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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The Current state of Commercial Real Estate: Armageddon or Overblown? Setting things straight with Matt Lasky of Equity Velocity Funds
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Jun 01, 2023 |
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Adding Spreads and Options to Trend Following, with Moritz Seibert
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May 11, 2023 |
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AI isn’t coming…it’s already here, with Adam Butler and Taylor Pearson
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May 04, 2023 |
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Alt (Digital) Trend Following with Sarah Schroeder of Coinbase Asset Mgmt.
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Apr 27, 2023 |
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Stories for Traders: A Trend followers’ journey through it all with Andrew Strasman of Totem Asset Group
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Apr 13, 2023 |
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What are the Options for tech employee Options, With Bryce Emo of Sidecar Financial
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Apr 06, 2023 |
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Searching for Volatile Macro Environments with Alfonso Peccatiello, The Macro Compass
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Mar 30, 2023 |
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The Conscientious Culture behind Risk Control with Kapil Rastogi of PlusPlus
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Mar 23, 2023 |
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Setting the record straight – Trend following: the proof is in the track record with Marty Bergin of DUNN Capital
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Mar 16, 2023 |
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WTF?! Will 0DTE Cause Gammageddon? With Mike Green and Craig Peterson
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Mar 09, 2023 |
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You still don’t have enough Trend Following or Foreign Equity exposure with Meb Faber
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Mar 02, 2023 |
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Volatility as an Asset Class with Jason Buck, Zed Francis, Rodrigo Gordillo, and Luke Rahbari
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Feb 23, 2023 |
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We’re Back!! Talking Trend, Miami, and Volatility with Nasdaq’s Kevin Davitt
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Feb 16, 2023 |
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Why hasn’t “VOL” done better amidst stock market losses in 2022 with Logica’s Wayne Himelsein
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Dec 08, 2022 |
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What the hell is going on in logistics and is there any relief in sight? with Woodson Dunavant
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Nov 17, 2022 |
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Getting Long Skew in Short (term) trading models, with Quest Partner's President, Michael Harris
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Nov 03, 2022 |
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Being a GenZ’er during Crypto Winter with @DeadCaitBounce's Caitlin Cook
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Oct 25, 2022 |
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WTF is LDI, and What’s working in Vol Trading with Zed Francis of Convexitas
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Oct 13, 2022 |
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Is there room for a VIX competitor, SPIKES founder Simon Ho sure thinks so.
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Oct 06, 2022 |
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Hurricanes, Cat Bonds, and the Billions at Risk with Dr. Jeff Masters and Chris McKeown
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Sep 29, 2022 |
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The Game of Trading with SIG Alums Kris A, Tina L, & Steiner
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Sep 22, 2022 |
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Trends, Inflation Protection, & Getting Investors to the Finish Line with Eric Crittenden of Standpoint
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Sep 15, 2022 |
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Nobody is prepared for a 2nd leg down, with Ari Bergmann of Penso Advisors
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Sep 08, 2022 |
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The Business of Staying Wealthy with Homer Smith of Konvergent Wealth
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Sep 01, 2022 |
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There’s no Stupid Options questions, just Stupid Options Courses, SurgiFi attends Benn Eifert’s Class
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Aug 23, 2022 |
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Using the Laws of Trading to find our edge with Agustin Lebron
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Aug 11, 2022 |
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It's not whether commodities keep going up, it's whether they remain distinct and volatile with Tim Pickering of Auspice
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Aug 04, 2022 |
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YOLO is BS, and Investing as just one Dimension of Wealth with Brian Portnoy of Shaping Wealth
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Jul 28, 2022 |
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Don’t Call it Private Equity, Seeking Value (and Tax Alpha) in Small Business with Adam Tkaczuk
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Jul 21, 2022 |
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Covering Calls and Charting Curves with Jay Soloff of Investors Alley
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Jul 14, 2022 |
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Cotton the Canary, Why it’s a leading indicator, and how it’s traded with Ron Lawson
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Jul 07, 2022 |
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Trend Following Crypto with Leigh Drogen of Starkiller
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Jun 30, 2022 |
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TIPS, Options & Rates. Increased Volatility environments with Nancy Davis
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Jun 23, 2022 |
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It’s Not a Fed Put, it’s a Fed Short Call! And more inflation thoughts with StoneX’s Vincent Deluard
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Jun 16, 2022 |
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Algorithmic Sports Betting, Trading Metals to Trending Commodities, & Crypto’s Future with Charlie McGarraugh of Blockchain.com
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Jun 09, 2022 |
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What happens in Vegas…. Gets Dished on this Pod. Overheard at a Derivatives Conference, Part 1
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Jun 02, 2022 |
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Wine as an Asset Class: Demands, Dilemmas, & Distribution with Vinovest's Anthony Zhang
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May 26, 2022 |
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Vol Arb, Rates Vol, Dispersion, & Risk Premium. Part II with Noel Smith
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May 19, 2022 |
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Setting the Risk Parity Record Straight (it’s NOT just stocks/bonds) with Resolve’s Rodrigo Gordillo and Mike Philbrick
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May 12, 2022 |
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The Glory Days, Market Making & Trading Options at the CBOE with Noel Smith of Convex AM
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May 05, 2022 |
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Trend Following, Signal Deterioration, & Crypto Modelling With Quant Artur Sepp
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Apr 28, 2022 |
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What’s New about the New -1x/+2x VIX ETFs SVIX and UVIX, w/ Stuart Barton, Jim Carroll & Vance Harwood
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Apr 21, 2022 |
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Using Emotions to Make Better Decisions and Deliver Results with ReThink’s Denise Shull
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Apr 14, 2022 |
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Hedge Funds vs ETFs, Passive vs Active, 70s Inflation vs Now, & Commodities vs CTAs with Simplify's Mike Green
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Apr 07, 2022 |
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Why is intraday trading so hard, Where is the ES liquidity, and When are most market moves happening (overnight), with Deepfield’s CEO, Bastian Bolesta
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Mar 31, 2022 |
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The Trillions of Dollars tracking Three Million Indices, with F.T.'s Finance Correspondent, Robin Wigglesworth
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Mar 24, 2022 |
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Commodity Volatility, Global Macro, and Trend Following with Alan Dunne from Archive Capital
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Mar 17, 2022 |
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Vol Persistence, The Unholy Trinity of Risk, and the (100 yr) Dragon Portfolio for our 100th episode with Chris Cole
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Mar 10, 2022 |
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A Macro take on Russia’s Gambit, Oil, Gold, Bitcoin and more with Luke Gromen
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Mar 03, 2022 |
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VIX in the 30s, talking market shocks and VIX spikes with Brian Stutland of Equity Armor
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Feb 24, 2022 |
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Trend following. The dynamic systems & strategies that make up a modern CTA, w/ EMCs John Krautsack
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Feb 17, 2022 |
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High Frequency Trading and Systematic Macro Funds with Matthew Hanna of Teza Technology
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Feb 10, 2022 |
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Wood is Good! With the Lords of Lumber: Stinson Dean and Kyle Little
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Feb 03, 2022 |
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Protecting the Portfolio not with Long Vol, but with Long Gamma, with Convexitas
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Jan 27, 2022 |
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Talking Tech, VC, eSports, Uranium, Bitcoin & more with Dr. Chris Dark
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Jan 20, 2022 |
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Emissions Trading and Carbon Allowance Futures with Michael Azlen
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Jan 13, 2022 |
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2021's Vol moves, 2022's outlook, Meme stocks, Option Flows and KAI with Cem Karsan
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Jan 06, 2022 |
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The Bitcoin ETF parade and Grayscale Trust, with Jason Urban of Galaxy Digital
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Nov 20, 2021 |
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A Multi PM (Global) Macro Masterclass with Markian Zyga
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Nov 13, 2021 |
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Attaining an Allocator's Edge with Phil Huber
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Nov 04, 2021 |
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Convex (CONVX) to the Core with Certeza’s Brett Nelson
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Oct 28, 2021 |
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Weigh More than You Wanted to Know About Meat, with AgriTrend’s Simon Quilty
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Oct 14, 2021 |
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Reimagining Risk and Reinsurance (& Cat Bonds) with Chris McKeown of Vantage Risk
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Oct 07, 2021 |
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Why Whales Tails Whip Up Market Tremors with Hari Krishnan
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Sep 30, 2021 |
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Blissfully Buying BB Bonds with Greg Obenshain of Verdad Capital
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Sep 23, 2021 |
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Researching the Risks of Return Stacking with Corey Hoffstein & Rodrigo Gordillo
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Sep 16, 2021 |
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Digging Deep into ETFs with Davie Nadig of ETF Trends
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Sep 09, 2021 |
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Options to Trend Following, and Back Again with Scot Billington of Covenant Cap.
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Sep 02, 2021 |
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Valuations….Are you F*&^ing Insane, with Howard Lindzon
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Aug 26, 2021 |
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Charting a Chinese Commodities Course with Fred Schutzman of Abingdon Global
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Aug 19, 2021 |
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BITFD & Wake the F Up with Ben Hunt of Epsilon Theory
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Aug 12, 2021 |
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Behind the Buffered Notes Bonanza With Joe Halpern of Exceed Investments
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Aug 05, 2021 |
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"Maybe I’m the Retail Idiot" with Bill Brewster
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Jul 29, 2021 |
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Teams of Options to Tackle the Tails with Jerry Haworth of 36 South
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Jul 22, 2021 |
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The Kaoboy of Convertible Arb with Michael Kao
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Jul 15, 2021 |
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Engineering, Exponentials, Enigmas, and Equations with Breaking the Market’s Matt Hollerbach
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Jul 08, 2021 |
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The Kid who Kaptures Kurtosis with Kris Sidial of Ambrus Group
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Jul 01, 2021 |
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Tis This Inflation Transitory with CME Group Economist Erik Norland
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Jun 24, 2021 |
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Sowing the Seeds of AI Strategies with Howard Siow of Taaffeite Capital Management
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Jun 17, 2021 |
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Carefully Constructing a Cockroach (portfolio) with Mutiny Funds Jason Buck and Taylor Pearson
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Jun 10, 2021 |
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Blame it on the Bossa Nova with New Market Wizard Tom Basso
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May 27, 2021 |
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WTF ^%$# is Happening With Crypto??
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May 20, 2021 |
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Allocating Assets and Attracting Allocators with Ted Seides
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May 13, 2021 |
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The NON-Wisdom of Crowds with Nigol Koulajian of Quest Partners
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May 06, 2021 |
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Turning the Tables: Trading Pits and Dip Spits with RCM’s Jeff Malec
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Apr 29, 2021 |
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A Crude Oil Cornucopia: Covid, Crack, CSOs & Contango with Brent Belote of Cayler Capital
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Apr 22, 2021 |
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Yep, She's Opening Up Option Eyes with NOPE It's Lily
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Apr 15, 2021 |
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Asian Markets, American Investments, & Accessing (Chinese) Futures with Alvin Fan of OPIM
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Apr 08, 2021 |
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eSports, ETFs, and Enormous Deals with the Sports Pomp, Joe Pompliano
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Apr 01, 2021 |
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Making Market Music with Roy Niederhoffer with Roy Niederhoffer
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Mar 25, 2021 |
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Modeling Markets and Accessing AI with Robert Rotella and Jag Prakasam
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Mar 18, 2021 |
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Taming the Tails with LongTail Alpha’s Vineer Bhansali
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Mar 11, 2021 |
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Crazy Commodity Cycles (and cross-continent motorcycles) with Jim Rogers
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Mar 04, 2021 |
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The VOLvengers: Wayne Himelsein (Iron Man) & Mike Green (Captain America)
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Feb 25, 2021 |
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Playing like a Poker Pro in Life/Investments/Career with Chris Sparks
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Feb 18, 2021 |
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Vol - Benn There, Done That with Benn Eifert of QVR Advisors
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Feb 11, 2021 |
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The Bull and Bear Cases for Bitcoin with Meltem Demirors & Nic Carter
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Feb 05, 2021 |
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Wallstreet Bets Busts Wallstreet? WTF ^%$#
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Jan 28, 2021 |
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Wisdom from the Wizard Maker with Jack Schwager
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Jan 21, 2021 |
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Gold, Gas, and Global Inflation with Diego Parrilla of Quadriga Asset Managers
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Jan 14, 2021 |
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Butler and Buck Back to Bookend 2020
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Dec 30, 2020 |
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2020’s Best Strategies, Styles, and Stories with Adam Butler and Jason Buck
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Dec 23, 2020 |
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Cover to Trend Legends Cover with Michael Covel
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Dec 10, 2020 |
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Really? Real Estate? Right Now? with Matt Lasky and Darren Kottle
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Dec 03, 2020 |
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Overheard at a Vol Conference, breaking down EQD Global 2020
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Nov 27, 2020 |
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The Mysteries and Makings of Machine Learning with Dr. Ernie Chan of QTS Cap
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Nov 19, 2020 |
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Don’t Buy the Narrative (and It’s All Narrative) with Epsilon Theory’s Ben Hunt
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Nov 12, 2020 |
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No President Yet, So Market Rallies Huge What ^%$#?
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Nov 05, 2020 |
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Who Would Want to SELL Options, with Mark Adams of Warrington Asset Management
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Oct 29, 2020 |
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Debunking Trend Following’s Dead Theories with Kathryn Kaminski
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Oct 22, 2020 |
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Vol Curves and Vanna Charm with Cem Karsan
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Oct 15, 2020 |
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Super Storms, Mathematical Modeling, and Hurricane Hunting with Dr. Jeff Masters
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Oct 08, 2020 |
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Bull Markets, Behavioral Biases, and Blogs with Baird’s Michael Antonelli
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Oct 01, 2020 |
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Sequencing, Skew, and (Option) Strikes with Hari Krishnan
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Sep 24, 2020 |
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A Professor, Prop Trader, & Risk Manager walk into a bar, with Victor Canto
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Sep 17, 2020 |
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Market Up/Vol Up, Market Down/Vol Down…WTF Episode
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Sep 10, 2020 |
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Canadian Commodities and Building Business with Tim Pickering of Auspice Capital Advisors
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Sep 03, 2020 |
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Straddles, SVXY, and (Gamma) Scalping with Logica’s Mike Green
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Aug 27, 2020 |
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Expect the Expected and Control the Controllable with Russ Rausch of Vision Pursue
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Aug 20, 2020 |
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Debt, Dollars, and Deficits with CME's Blu Putnam
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Aug 13, 2020 |
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Trend Following Turtle Tails (and Tales) with Jerry Parker
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Aug 06, 2020 |
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Do Hedge Funds Suck? With Max Nissman, Olivier d’Assier, and Scott Treloar
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Jul 30, 2020 |
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Seeking (VIX) Certainty with Certeza's Brett Nelson
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Jul 23, 2020 |
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BLNDX[ing] Trend Following and Global Equity with Standpoint’s Eric Crittenden
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Jul 16, 2020 |
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Why Charts and What Data with Sean Brown of YCharts
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Jul 09, 2020 |
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5 Asia/China Focused Hedge Funds, 1 Podcast!
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Jul 02, 2020 |
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$TVIX gets Terminated – What^%$#
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Jun 25, 2020 |
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Noodling on Ensembles, Trend, & Convexity with Newfound’s Corey Hoffstein
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Jun 18, 2020 |
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Allocating to Alts with RPMs Alexander Mende
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Jun 11, 2020 |
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Navigating Market Volatility with CBOE’s Kevin Davitt, Wayne Himelsein of Logica Capital Advisers, Jason Buck of Mutiny Fund, and Bastian Bolesta of Deep Field Capital.
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Jun 04, 2020 |
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Black Swans, Gray Rhinos, and Tigers..Oh My with Michele Wucker
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May 28, 2020 |
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Tagging a Value to Pro Sports Teams with Bob Reif and Josh Moscot of TAG
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May 21, 2020 |
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Uncovering the Known Unknowns of the Pandemic with Chief Economist Blu Putnam, ReSolve's Rodrigo Gordillo, and Teza's Dan Deering
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May 14, 2020 |
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Tackling Trading Technologies and (lower case t) technology with Guy Scott of TT
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May 07, 2020 |
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Texas Style Trend Following with Salem Abraham
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Apr 30, 2020 |
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Valuing VIX and Volatility with Joe Tigay
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Apr 25, 2020 |
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Crude Oil goes Negative… What^%$#
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Apr 21, 2020 |
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Exchanging Intellectual Assets with $TAIL, $SYLD $GVAL ETF-icionado Meb Faber
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Apr 17, 2020 |
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The principles of VIX trading with Alex Orus of Principalium
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Apr 09, 2020 |
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Trading Chinese Futures Markets with Abingdon Global
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Apr 02, 2020 |
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Trading Commodity Volatility – A Woman’s Perspective
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Mar 26, 2020 |
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Capturing the Global Sell-Off with Bastian Bolesta of Deep Field Capital
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Mar 19, 2020 |
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Crypto & Bitcoin Lending with Tom Anderson of Drawbridge Lending
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Mar 12, 2020 |
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Asset Allocation, AI, and the Alpha Process with Resolve Asset Management
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Mar 04, 2020 |
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Staging a Market Mutiny with Jason Buck and Taylor Pearson of Black Pearl
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Feb 27, 2020 |
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Decoding Execution Algos with Joe Signorelli & David Don
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Feb 04, 2020 |
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The Life of a Discretionary Trader with Breakout Funds’ Aaron Larkin & Matt Laviolette
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Feb 04, 2020 |
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Wayne Himelsein: The Human Behind the Hedge Fund
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Jan 27, 2020 |