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Clear all filters- Chat With Traders1h 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.
- Chat With Traders1h 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.
- Chat With Traders55 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.
- Chat With Traders1h 7m
From Tick to Trend, Day Trading to Wave Riding · Chris Vermeulen
Chris Vermeulen, a retired full-time trader at age 27, has evolved from high-frequency day trading to a low-activity position strategy that executes only five to twelve trades annually based on market cycles and price action. His approach prioritizes risk management by shifting dynamically between major ETFs like the SPY and cash during periods of high volatility, explicitly rejecting the "buy and hold" mantra as a danger to retirement portfolios. As of 2025, Vermeulen anticipates a potential bear market extending into 2026 and maintains a 60% equity and 40% cash allocation while leveraging his educational platform, TheTechnicalTraders.com, to guide investors through cyclical market shifts.
- Chat With Traders1h 10m
Go Where Orders Flow · Dylan Maltman
In Episode 302 of Chat with Traders, hosts Tessa and Ian Cox interview Dylan Maltman, founder of Cape Town-based Apex Capital Management, about his evolution from a prop firm trainee to a quantitative futures and forex specialist. Maltman details his firm's algorithmic strategy, which leverages order flow analysis on major CME sectors to achieve Sharpe ratios exceeding 3 while maintaining drawdowns below 0.72 percent. The discussion concludes with Maltman's emphasis on building custom methodologies over buying black-box systems and his advice that new traders must prioritize process mastery and patience to overcome the initial learning curve of profitability.
- Chat With Traders1h 21m
Trading Earnings Volatility with Options · Erik Smolinski
Options trader Eric Smolenski outlines a consistency-focused philosophy that distinguishes between statistical outcomes and individual trade results while adapting to a market regime shift driven by daily SPX expirations and volatility spikes. He details specific earnings strategies, such as pre-event volatility expansion and post-announcement drift, which rely on rigorous position sizing capped at 1% portfolio loss to mitigate risks inherent in complex derivatives. Smolenski further emphasizes the integration of AI for statistical analysis and factor identification rather than automated execution, rejecting "fast money" narratives in favor of process-driven trading that tolerates ego suppression and thesis abandonment.
- Chat With Traders1h 25m
We Should Not Die as Traders · Patrick Petersson
Patrick Petersson, Tessa, Ian Cox
Patrick Peterson returns to "Chat with Traders" for a milestone episode to critique the trading industry's reliance on complex theories and unreliable prop firm payouts, advocating instead for simple, actionable education on risk management during high volatility. The discussion highlights his evolution from an isolated trader to a community-focused mentor who prioritizes psychological resilience and personal accountability over rigid strategies or simulated profits. Peterson concludes by outlining his strategic shift toward securing passive real estate income to support his trading capital while pausing formal mentorship to focus on raising his son and preparing for hedge fund regulation.
- Chat With Traders1h 33m
Intersection of Emotional Intelligence and Tactics · Michael Martin
Michael Martin, a thirty-year veteran futures trader, details his evolution from a blue-collar worker to a New York-based Commodity Trading Advisor who built his initial firm using Hong Kong flight capital in 1997. The discussion centers on his disciplined "sniper" trading philosophy, which prioritizes physical market observation and psychological fortitude over technical indicators to manage risk while generating significant alpha in sleepy commodity contracts. Martin concludes by advocating for experiential learning, emphasizing that future profitability in both traditional markets and emerging sectors like cryptocurrency depends on total personal responsibility and strict adherence to defensive risk management.
- Chat With Traders56 min
Running 55+ Systematic Trading Strategies Simultaneously · Laurens Bensdorp
Laurens Bensdorp, Tessa, Ian Cox
Lawrence Bensdorp advocates for a diversified portfolio of 55 automated systematic strategies designed to prioritize wealth preservation over aggressive accumulation by mitigating extreme drawdowns through uncorrelated return streams. This architecture combines mean reversion and trend-following approaches across multiple asset classes and timeframes, utilizing equal weighting and full automation to eliminate human error while ensuring faster recovery from market volatility. Bensdorp emphasizes that successful implementation requires building proprietary systems to foster psychological resilience, enabling traders to endure the inevitable large drawdowns that occur during black swan events.