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By Ethan Kho

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Conversations with leading thinkers on trading and investing. Hosted by Ethan Kho. Produced by Patrick Kho.

Episode Date
He Started a Quant Fund in His Dorm. Now He's Building the Brokerage for Everything.
Aug 21, 2026
Inside the Billionaire-Backed Prediction Markets Hedge Fund
Aug 13, 2026
World's #1 Oil Hedge Fund Manager: How I Made 200% While Everyone Lost 60%
Aug 06, 2026
The Strategy Behind Asia’s $6 Billion Quant Fund: Quantedge
Jul 30, 2026
Ex-Balyasny PM: “Automation will increase demand for hedge fund talent.”
Jul 23, 2026
~100% Returns in 2025, No Losing Year Since 2008: Erik Smolinski on Edge for Retail Trader Edge
Jul 16, 2026
Ex-Citadel PM: All Hedge Fund Failures Are Because of One Reason - Rich Falk Wallace
Jul 09, 2026
Ex-Two Sigma Quant: You Should Bet Against Bullish Analysts
Jul 02, 2026
Ex-Citadel Quant on Trading the Most Asymmetric Market - Neel Somani
Jun 25, 2026
LTCM Co-founder Victor Hagani: “Taking Risk Is Always a Negative.”
Jun 20, 2026
Quant Hedge Fund Partner: Raising Capital Is Harder Than Generating Returns
Jun 04, 2026
Ex-WorldQuant Head of Data Strategy: Quants “Don’t Care About the Stock Market”
May 28, 2026
The Secret to Uncorrelated Alpha in Crypto - Leigh Drogen on Starkiller Capital’s Sharpe Ratio of 4
May 24, 2026
“Market Crashes Are Good for My Strategy” - One-Man Hedge Fund PM George Livadas
May 14, 2026
“If it is easy and obvious, there is no edge in it” - TD Quant Matt Schrager
May 07, 2026
Ex-Tudor Quant PM: “There Hasn't Been a New Idea in Trading for 15 Years”
Apr 30, 2026
“Concentrated Strategies Will Do Extremely Well” - Sean Emory on Outperforming the Index
Apr 23, 2026
“It’s the Dumbest Market in the World” - Quant Trader Scott Phillips on Edge in Crypto
Apr 16, 2026
Now Is the Best Time to Become a Junior Analyst - Ex-Citadel and D. E. Shaw PM Brett Caughran
Apr 09, 2026
"Positions Can Be LESS Risky at Higher Prices" - Derek Pilecki on Finding Edge in Financials
Apr 02, 2026
How Billionaire Hedge Fund Managers Are Using Generative AI to Invest
Mar 27, 2026
How the World’s Largest Oil Derivatives Trading Firm Is Navigating the Iran War
Mar 19, 2026
Annie Duke on Thinking in Bets - And Why Winners Can Be Wrong
Mar 12, 2026
Meet the 25-Year-Old Running a Multi-Manager Hedge Fund
Mar 05, 2026
Alpha Comes From a Differentiated View - Ex-Point72 Prop Research Head Kirk McKeown on Edge in 2026
Feb 26, 2026
What Druckenmiller Style Investing Gets Wrong - Alfonso Pecatiello on Edge in Macro Trading
Feb 19, 2026
“I think of everything as a bet” - Ex-SIG Quant Trader Andrew Courtney
Feb 12, 2026
“Conviction is dangerous” - Emerging Markets Hedge Fund Manager Sinan Xin
Feb 05, 2026
“AI Makes Analysts Lazy” - Hedge Fund Manager Alix Pasquet on the Importance of Analog Training
Jan 29, 2026
Why 20% of Hedge Funds Fail After One Year - Claudia Quintela on Why Managers Need Business Sense
Jan 22, 2026
How I Built a 1.4-Billion-Dollar Quant Fund - Deepak Gurnani on Founding Versor Investments
Jan 15, 2026
This Ex-Poker Pro Built a Hedge Fund by Betting Against Beta – David Orr on Asymmetric Bets
Jan 12, 2026
How Leading Multi Strat Funds Hire - Recruiting Director Jesse Skaff on the Hedge Fund Talent War
Jan 12, 2026
How the World’s #1 Prediction Markets Trader Finds Edge! - Domer on Trading Global Political Events
Dec 28, 2025
Why SIG Tells Traders Not to Hedge! - Ex-SIG Trader and Moontower Founder, Kris Abdelmessih
Dec 27, 2025
How High Frequency Trading Became “The Most Cutthroat Business!” - Ex-HFT Trader, Annanay Kapila
Dec 26, 2025
Youngest-Ever Citadel MD: What It’s Like to Work Side-by-Side with Ken Griffin
Dec 25, 2025
SIG Director: How Susquehanna Trains Top Traders with Poker
Dec 24, 2025
Ex–Goldman and DRW Trader on Trading Before Algorithms Took Over
Nov 20, 2025
Ex-AIA Quant Director: Every Hedge Fund That Fails Makes THIS Mistake
Nov 11, 2025
Partners at Versor Reveal Their Quant Strategies Managing $1.4 Billion
Nov 10, 2025
Ex- Citadel Analyst and Millennium PM: What It’s Like Inside Both Hedge Funds
Nov 09, 2025
Hedge Fund Manager Alix Pasquet: Why Smart People Lose Money
Nov 08, 2025
GBE Founder Cory Paddock: Great Traders Know When a Regime Change Is Coming
Nov 06, 2025
Christina Qi Started a Hedge Fund From Her Dorm Room. Now, Top Trading Firms Now Buy Her Data.
Nov 05, 2025
159 Billion-Dollar Quant Investor: Stop Only Investing in the S&P500
Nov 04, 2025
She Left Citadel and Built a BILLION-DOLLAR Hedge Fund
Sep 23, 2025
Former Nomura Managing Director: How the Sell-Side Created Modern Quant Finance
Sep 17, 2025
Former Global Trading Director at Cargill: Edge in Commodities Trading Starts With Relationships
Sep 09, 2025
Hedge Fund Manager Ernie Chan: Use GenAI to Manage Risk, Not Predict Return
Sep 02, 2025
Ex-PDT Partners Director on How Small Trading Firms Can Still Compete
Aug 26, 2025
Former AQR and Two Sigma VP: How Quant Funds Will Use GenAI to Find Edge
Aug 19, 2025
Chris Kantos: How Natural Language Processing Can Generate Alpha
Aug 12, 2025
Quant Trader and Kinetic Founder: Trading the Market is Like Playing Poker
Aug 05, 2025
Robert Carver Ran a Multi-Billion Dollar Systematic Portfolio for Man AHL. Now He Invests Solo.
Jul 29, 2025
Ex-Jane Street Trader: How to Find “Edge” in the Markets and Real Life
Jul 15, 2025
Venture Capitalist Avik Ashar: VC Is How Asia’s Richest Future-Proof Their Businesses
Jul 08, 2025
Venture Capitalist Guy Horowitz: Some of the Best Founders are Assholes
Jun 10, 2025
Goodnotes COO Minh Tran: Schools That Ignore AI Will Fall Behind
May 20, 2025
Quant Researcher and YouTuber Dimitri Bianco: Your Finance Degree is Worthless
May 13, 2025
Investment Migration Expert Krista Victorio: You Can Buy a Passport (Legally)
May 06, 2025
$1M+ Consultant Davide Sola: For True Success, "Think in Generations, Not Quarters"
Apr 29, 2025
After Years as a Startup Advisor, Illai Gescheit Says Kindness Is Edge
Apr 24, 2025
How Ryan Manuel Built an AI Startup Turning Policy Into Alpha
Apr 15, 2025
How Silicon Sands’ Seth Dobrin Is Investing in a Future Where AI Is Used Responsibly
Apr 01, 2025
From Author to Publisher: How Dhira Vidhea Built Indonesia’s First Digital Literary Agency
Mar 25, 2025
Where Energy, Grit, and Optimism Take You: How Keith Breslauer Went From Working at Lehman Brothers to Starting a €5 Billion Private Equity Firm
Mar 18, 2025
Daniel Mika Built an AI Startup at 17. Seven Years Later, He Invests in Them.
Mar 11, 2025
When the Only Way is Up: Earl Valencia Turned $5 Million in Startup Funding Into Emerging Market Success
Feb 25, 2025
From Junk to Riches: How Kirk McKinney Built a Million-Dollar Business Collecting Junk
Feb 18, 2025