At 22 I graduated from university and decided to set up a crypto hedge fund. I learned everything by doing and after years of 100-hour weeks, progress started to happen. Fast forward, I am a Forbes 30 Under 30 lister, running one of the largest crypto hedge funds in the world and a frequent speaker at top conferences. I have been featured in Bloomberg, Forbes, and many other leading news media outlets. In this podcast, I speak with some of the world's most successful hedge fund managers, inv ...
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Depth and Spread is a podcast published by dYdX Trading focused on crypto trading, market microstructure and exchanges. We aim to demystify how professional traders do their job and provide insights that are as actionable and concrete as possible. Follow us at https://twitter.com/dYdX Trade at dYdX https://trade.dydx.exchange/r/depthandspread Download the dYdX app for iOS https://dydx.onelink.me/rNzl/tf3rbtzl
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#19 David Mercer - Institutional Trading of Crypto
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David Mercer is the Chief Executive Officer of LMAX Group, the leading operator of institutional FX and crypto currency execution venues. Following a successful management buyout, David has built LMAX Group into a key player in both the traditional capital markets and the crypto trading industry. Headquartered in the UK, the Group operates 6 exchan…
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#18 Jordi Alexander - Finding The Edge
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Jordi is the Chief Investment Officer of Selini Capital, a digital assets investment firm, as well as an Angel investor and advisor to tech and crypto startups. He has competed at the highest levels of strategy games competitions and transitioned from professional poker into a successful career in High Frequency Trading.…
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Doyne Farmer is Director of the Complexity Economics programme at the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School, Baillie Gifford Professor in the Mathematical Institute at the University of Oxford, and an External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute. His current research is in economics, including agent-based modeling, financi…
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#16 Howard Morgan - Founding of Renaissance Technologies
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Howard Morgan is currently the Chairman of B Capital. He co-founded First Round Capital with Josh Kopelman as the first professional Seed Stage Fund, where he remains Senior Advisor. Prior to First Round, Howard helped found Idealab with Bill Gross, and served as President of Renaissance Technologies, which he co-founded with Jim Simons. Prior to h…
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Listen to Antonio, the founder of dYdX, address the whole team the afternoon following the FTX collapse. He gives an impassioned tour of his hopes and fears for DeFi and dYdX.
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In this episode we dive into Jordi’s background in chess and poker, and how that led him to high-frequency trading, first in traditional markets, now also in crypto. We talk about his approach to discretionary vs. systematic trading, his philosophy on sharing ideas, in contrast to most HFT firms, and designing a good exchange as dYdX moves towards …
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Finding opportunity in crypto markets with Nikita Fadeev, Fasanara Capital
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Join us to hear from Nikita Fadeev from Fasanara Capital on a variety of topics related to crypto markets. Learn about his story starting Fasanara with a group of friends from university, providing liquidity to “arbitrage” funding rates, optimizing execution across different trading venues, his thoughts about the main types of players in crypto mar…
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In this episode, we chat with Dan Matuszewski, founder of CMS Holdings. CMS is one of the most well-known crypto trading and venture firms, and in this conversation, Dan tells us about his background, his firm, and his trading process. We hope you'll enjoy this conversation as much as we did! Follow your hosts: Ivo: https://twitter.com/ivo_crnkovic…
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In this episode, we chat with Mitchell Dong, the CEO of Pythagoras, a crypto hedge fund. Mitchell is a serial entrepreneur with diverse experience starting both traditional business and trading firms. Mitchell talks us through some of frontier markets he has traded in his career, ranging from physical uranium to electricity futures to crypto. Along…
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Market Making through the Terra Crash with Sixtant
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In this episode, we chat with Josu San Martin and Matt Downey, the co-founders of Sixtant, a trading firm and market-maker. Josu and Matt tell us about piloting their firm through the Terra ecosystem unwind. We speak about their typical strategies, how to think about profitability in a period of elevated volatility and go through their experience o…
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#15 Tim Draper - To Predict The Future Invent It
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Tim Draper is one of the most successful venture capitalists from Silicon Valley. 35 of his portfolio companies became unicorns which include firms like: Hotmail, Skype, Baidu, Tesla, Twitter and many more. In this episode, we discuss Tim’s path into finance, how he launched hist first VC fund, what his outlook for the adoption of AI is, and what h…
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#14 Ewan Kirk - Solve for Happiness
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Ewan Kirk, President of GAM Systematic, is a known and recognised figure in quantitative finance. He started his career in finance at Goldman Sachs, spent 13 years there and retired as a partner. Subsequently he launched Cantab Capital Partners, a Cambridge based hedge fund which managed close to $5 billion in assets under management at its peak. I…
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#13 Andrew McCaffery - Discipline and Courage to Persevere
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Andrew McCaffery is the Chief Investment Officer of Fidelity International. Coming from humble beginnings Andrew quickly rose through the ranks and over the past 3 decades has been advising, allocating and closely working with some of the most successful and largest hedge funds worldwide. In this interview, you will learn about Andrew’s lifelong de…
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#12 Mark Mobius - Building and Running One of the Largest Emerging Markets Fund Worldwide
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Mark Mobius is one of the most recognised figures in money management and in 2011 has been named as one of the “50 Most Influential People”. Mark spent over 30 years at Franklin Templeton running its Emerging Markets Investment Trust which grew 500 fold and reached over 50 billion in AUM during his tenure. In 2018, Mark founded Mobius Capital Partn…
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#11 Fiona Frick - Becoming a Female CEO of a $20 Billion Asset Manager
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Fiona Frick is the CEO of Unigestion, a Swiss based boutique asset manager with $20bn in AUM, and she has been recognised as one of the most influential women in finance on numerous occasions. In this interview, we discussed how Unigestion created a collaborative ecosystem for conducting cutting edge research, the importance and adoption of ESG, th…
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#10 Alexander Lipton – The Pursuit of Knowledge
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Alex Lipton is a prominent figure in quant finance. He spent over 20 years on the sell-side, held a number of prestigious positions in academia and received the first quant of the year award by Risk.net. He is the CTO of fintech startup Silamoney that is seeking to revolutionise financial services through distributed ledge technology. In this episo…
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#9 Victor Niederhoffer – The Market Speculator
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Victor Niederhoffer is one of the most famous investors and a true pioneer. After rubbing shoulders with a few of the future Nobel Laureates at the University of Chicago, he started a trading firm and made $20 million from the starting capital of $50k within 6 months. In the 90s, he was the right hand man of George Soros and with a 34% rate of retu…
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#8 Mark Yusko - Uncovering The Secret Behind Investment in Innovation
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Mark Yusko, Founder and CEO of Morgan Creek Capital Management, is a household name in hedge fund investing and spent over 30 years identifying, seeding and growing some of the most successful funds. In this episode, we discuss the mindset and approach of discovering and investing in the next big technological innovation, the evolution of hedge fun…
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#7 Marty Lueck - Pioneering CTA in 1980th and Building a $10 Billion Quant Fund
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Marty Lueck, Research Director and President of Aspect Capital, is a true pioneer and over the past 3 decades helped to transfer and evolve managed futures. He co-founded one of the best known CTAs - AHL, which stands for the surname of the three Co-Founders - Michael Adam, David Harding and Marty Lueck. AHL grew from 100 thousand to 300 million in…
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#6 David Hand - Dark Data and Why What You Don't Know Matters
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Professor David Hand, Emeritus Professor of Mathematics and Senior Research Investigator at Imperial College London, has published over 300 scientific papers and 30 books, won many prestigious awards and was a president of the Royal Statistical Society twice. During this interview, Professor Hand explains what is dark data and why this simple, but …
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#5 Campbell Harvey - Think Big and Pursue Big Ideas
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Professor Campbell Harvey is a Professor of Finance at Duke University. He has 70 thousand citations and is one of the most recognised researchers in finance. Professor Harvey spent over 33 years in academia, published over 125 papers and advised some of the largest and most influential financial institutions. In our latest episode, he shares stori…
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#4 Steve Mobbs - Life and Career of a Quant Hedge Fund Manager
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Steve Mobbs was the co-founder of OxAM, a quantitative hedge fund that peaked at $5 billion in AUM. In this episode, Steve gives his behind the scene of the hedge fund world and expands on his experience. You will learn how and why his first fund failed and what lessons he learned from that experience. He also explains how he started OxAM and grew …
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#3 Aaron Brown – Risk Management, Gambling and Wall Street
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Aaron Brown is the author of The Poker Face of Wall Street and former Chief Risk Officer at AQR. He was a top professional poker player in the 1970s and also honed his quantitative risk-taking skills in sports betting and advantage gambling. He is one of the pioneers of risk management and spent over 35 years on Wall Street as a trader, portfolio m…
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#2 Francesco Filia - Don't Be Afraid of Change
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Francesco Filia, CEO of Fasanara Capital, started his career at J.P. Morgan and Merrill Lynch and then co-founded Fasanara Capital in 2011. In this episode, we learn about Francesco’s days on the sell-side and the underlying principles on which he built his hedge fund. He also talks about why he is bearish on the market but bullish on the economy a…
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#1 Victor Haghani – Why No One Should Get Rich Twice
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Victor Haghani has been actively involved in the market for over 35 years and was one of the founding partners of Long-Term Capital Management. LTCM was one of biggest hedge funds, with $128 billion assets, until 1998 almost collapsing and causing a global financial crisis if the Federal Reserve didn't step in. In this episode, we discuss Victor’s …
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