Chat With Traders
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From the Copper Pits to Crypto Derivatives: How Trading Edge Evolves · Sam Gaer
Sam Gare, a veteran former NYMEX CIO who exited traditional finance to specialize in crypto derivatives, is leveraging his "burn the boats" strategy to exploit structural market inefficiencies such as volatility mispricing and convexity opportunities. Despite a recent $20 billion liquidation event and legislative delays, Gare identifies multiple contrarian signals indicating a market bottom and forecasts Bitcoin exceeding $100,000 by year-end. To capture these opportunities, his firm Monarch Asset Management is transitioning from off-the-shelf AI tools to in-house Large Language Models designed to process the overwhelming volume of institutional market data.
- 54 min
The Shift to Systematic Trading — Building Backtested Confidence · Dave Mabe
Veteran trader Dave Mabe explains his transition from discretionary to a fully systematic gapping breakout framework, demonstrating how automation can scale annual trade frequency tenfold while increasing profits five times. He warns that maintaining capital size during drawdowns is critical, as reducing exposure often deepens losses and delays recovery, while advocating for forward testing with small positions to validate system logic. Mabe further emphasizes the necessity of developing uncorrelated strategies and leveraging AI tools for code generation to avoid over-optimization and ensure robust, long-term performance.
- 58 min
The One That Shows Up — The Identity You Practice · John Assaraf
John Asareff, founder of NeuroGym and serial entrepreneur, distinguishes between superficial interest and deep commitment by explaining how subconscious identity blocks like the "financial thermostat" prevent goal achievement despite conscious intent. He outlines a neuroscientific framework where over 95% of behavior relies on automatic neural patterns that require specific tools like the Innercise methodology and identity visualization to rewire the brain for success. This approach enables individuals to override fear-driven amygdala responses and align their internal self-image with external financial realities, transforming abstract desires into executable habits through rigorous mental conditioning.
- 22 min
Chat With Traders Episode 316 The Turning Points that Shaped Great Traders
Tom Dante, Lance Breitstein, Jack Kellogg, Peter Brandt, Vincent Bruzzese, Kristjan Kullamägi, Jason Shapiro, Patrick Petersson, Lukas Frölich, Sunny Harris, Tessa, John Moulton
This collection of trader narratives details how elite professionals like Tom Dante, Lance Brightstein, and Vincent Brucisi transitioned from recurring losses to sustained profitability by fundamentally shifting their mindset regarding risk, betting skew, and loss management. The speakers emphasize that success requires abandoning linear, emotion-driven approaches in favor of data-driven discipline, strict lifestyle boundaries, and a business-like operational structure that treats trading as a delayed-gratification enterprise. Ultimately, the consensus is that market mastery involves paying an unavoidable "tuition" of failure to internalize the critical skill of cutting losses quickly while letting winners run.
- 57 min
From Early Crypto to 0DTE Options: Fast Money, Fast Reality · Jamaal Ghauri
Near-Philadelphia trader Jamal Ghori founded a private multi-strategy hedge fund with nearly $50 million in assets by evolving from early crypto speculation into a sophisticated options trader following a catastrophic 2021 account blowup. His fund currently deploys four distinct approaches, including a flagship Zero Days to Expiration SPX butterfly strategy that leverages gamma heat maps and market maker tools to achieve a 52% win rate. Although the firm's 580% 2024 performance included a single outsized gold options trade, Ghori emphasizes strict risk management and defined-loss strategies to mitigate the discipline challenges inherent in high-leverage derivatives trading.
- 6 min
In the Middle: The Demons We Trade With
In the final solo installment of 2025, host Tessa confirms her identity as a human and outlines the "middle stage" of trading, a period defined by internal refinement and risk recalibration rather than immediate profitability. Utilizing the song "What It Sounds Like" as a framework, she equates lyrical themes with necessary psychological practices like journaling to expose behavioral habits and transforming drawdowns into resilience markers. The episode concludes by framing this continuous, unvalidated phase of grinding and refining as essential preparation for the trading community entering 2026.
- 1h 6m
Liquidations, Leverage, and Market Structure Under Stress · Doug Colkitt
Former Citadel HFT professional and crypto market maker Doug Colquitt analyzed the historic $20 billion October 10, 2025 liquidation event, attributing the cascade to siloed margin structures, synthetic leverage, and opaque auto-deleveraging protocols. Drawing on this trauma, Colquitt is developing Ambient Finance and the Fogo chain to launch a transparent, open-source perpetual DEX that separates clearing from trading and utilizes dual-flow batch auctions to mitigate predatory high-frequency tactics. Beyond this technical overhaul, he projects that regulatory shifts will soon enable Real-World Asset tokenization to fundamentally replace traditional brokerage settlement rails with faster, mobile-native alternatives.
- 1h 26m
Battling Irrational Markets · Vincent Bruzzese (aka Hari Seldon of Real Day Trading)
Vincent Bruzzese, Hari Seldon, Tessa, Ian Cox
Statistics professor and professional trader Brzezinski characterizes the current market as an irrational, historically hated rally driven by stretched valuations and predicts an inevitable correction triggered by earnings shocks or inflation. He urges traders to abandon emotion-driven strategies for defensible, data-backed approaches that prioritize the broader SPY trend, emphasizing that consistent profitability requires two years of disciplined study before risking capital. With a portfolio currently holding shorts on Tesla and longs on Apple and Oscar Health, Brzezinski also promotes treating trading as a business with strict risk management while planning to launch the "Tradecraft" podcast to educate aspiring practitioners.
- 1h 16m
The Calm Before the Break · Christian Carreon
Christian Carreon, Tessa Dow, Ian Cox
After receiving a kidney transplant and undergoing a strict recovery regimen, trader Christian Carrion pivoted his 2023 strategy from aggressive returns to a dual approach focused on cash flow and swing trading. He outlines a specific methodology that combines directional trend following with mean reversion, utilizing custom indicators to identify A-plus setups and employing a "going all in" technique that pairs large position sizes with tight risk stops. Carrion further emphasizes psychological discipline by advising traders to build a scenario library, avoid hedging during established trends, and scale out of winning positions to manage emotional drawdowns.
- 1h 33m
Fingerprinting the Big Players: Inside the Hidden Order Flow · Dr. Efrat Levy
Dr. Efrat Levy utilizes a proprietary machine learning algorithm to apply cybersecurity side channel analysis to financial markets, generating fixed, single-tick key levels ten hours before market open based on indirect volume and timing anomalies. Her strictly day-trading strategy requires simultaneous hits on these levels across three to four correlated assets, such as ES and NQ, to execute high-probability setups with a reported 85% win rate while maintaining a 3:1 to 4:1 risk-to-reward ratio. Currently operating through prop firms to leverage a $90 risk against a potential $1,000 gain, Levy aims to accumulate capital for a future live account that will allow for swing trading and overnight positions once the system's proprietary code remains protected from disclosure.
- 1h 0m
Winning Through Losing: When 30% Is Enough · Diego Cortes Lopez
Diego Cortes Lopez, Diego Ivan Cortes Lopez, Oliver Velez, Tessa, Ian Cox
Diego Cortez Lopez, a 24-year-old digital nomad and former tennis prospect, pivoted from failing futures scalping to profitability in large-cap day trading after adopting Oliver Velez's methodology in late 2022. His rule-based approach targets the first 60 minutes of the session to execute high reward-to-risk reversal trades on a 30–40% win rate, utilizing specific support and resistance levels without relying on volume indicators. This disciplined strategy has enabled an exponential account growth trajectory since 2022, allowing Lopez to sustain a live-trading career across Southeast Asia while mentoring a select group of peers.
- 56 min
Market Wizards, Measured: Inside the Criteria, Craft, and Grit · Jack Schwager and Emanuel Balarie
Jack Schwager, Emanuel Balarie, Tessa Dell, Ian Cox
Jack Schwager is preparing his sixth *Market Wizard* book to profile traders who have achieved either massive wealth accumulation or exceptional risk-adjusted returns through over a decade of verified performance. Complementing this publication, the FundSeeder Rise Accelerator, now integrated with the capital-seeding firm RQSI, offers institutional infrastructure and regulatory support to help elite traders transition from proprietary trading to managing external capital. Together, these initiatives aim to democratize access to global investment opportunities by identifying and scaling the next generation of disciplined market participants.
The Gamer’s Edge: High-Win Scalping in Pre-Market Madness · Mario Dimitroff
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- 55 min
Prop Goes the Trader · Michael Katz
Michael Katz, CEO of Trade the Pool, outlines the firm's evolution from a traditional brick-and-mortar concept into a global online platform that connects U.S. equities traders with substantial capital while mitigating personal financial risk. By utilizing a hybrid C-Book execution model and data-driven rule adjustments, the company achieves a significantly higher evaluation pass rate of 20–25% compared to retail averages, alongside an 85% success rate for funded traders reaching payout phases. With upcoming features including copy trading and algorithmic integration, Trade the Pool aims to solidify its position as a primary provider of U.S. stock funding by expanding beyond its current Israeli headquarters to serve a diverse international clientele.
- 1h 27m
When Story, Fundamentals, and Technicals Align · Julian Komar
Based in northern Germany, veteran trader Julian Comar discusses his 20-year evolution from complex European certificates to a disciplined U.S. equity breakout strategy centered on a three-layer analysis of technicals, fundamentals, and market narratives. Comar emphasizes that emotional execution errors are the primary cause of failure, detailing his risk management protocols which limit sector concentration to three stocks after suffering a 17% single-day drawdown during the January 2024 AI volatility. His framework prioritizes institutional liquidity and relative strength ratings above 90, while his community program at JulianComar.com promotes individualized skill development over blind system copying to help traders master the psychology required for long-term profitability.