Best Saad Ben Podcasts (2024)

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283: Trading Football Dreams for Stock Market Touchdowns 59:27

7d ago59:27

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Michael shares his journey from aspiring NFL athlete to successful day trader. After a sports injury dashed his football dreams, he turned to day trading, teaching himself the ropes and overcoming early financial losses with the encouragement of his entrepreneurial mother. His trading strategy evolved over the years, focusing on short-selling highl…

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282: Tony Greer - Staying Selective and Being Adaptable in the Trading Landscape 1:15:15

23d ago1:15:15

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Tony Greer, a Long Island native, ventured into Wall Street trading inspired by his father. With a background in business management from Cornell University, he honed his skills at Sumitomo Bank, UBS, and Goldman Sachs. He and his team meticulously diagrammed every aspect of the markets, from liquidity to potential swings, which allowed him to expl…

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281: Marsten Parker - The Purely Systematic Wizard Trader 1:08:27

1M ago1:08:27

1:08:27

Starting in classical violin and computer programming, Marsten Parker's path took a transformative turn when he ventured into trading. Despite a rocky start, his disciplined, algorithm-driven approach led to consistent returns, earning him recognition in Jack Schwager's book, "Unknown Market Wizards". We get to learn about his transition from discr…

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280: Steve Hanke - Decoding the Drivers of Inflation and Markets 1:16:03

2M ago1:16:03

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Trading commodities since 14 years old, Professor Hanke started learning the importance of closely following macro economic factors which impact the prices of currencies, commodities and consumer goods. His evidence-based approach uncovers the deeper forces driving inflation and market fluctuations and challenges prevailing narratives as it relates…

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279: Saad Filali - Front-Running News Flow Trading 1:08:09

2M ago1:08:09

1:08:09

Saad Filali, worked for Goldman Sachs, specializing in Mergers and Acquisitions, then left and became a Trader. Understanding the thinking and trading styles of the many different market players is key to his trading, including those of institutions, sell side brokers, CTA’s, retail, and meme stock traders. Studying how they trade the volatility an…

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278: Ben Greenfield - Elevate Your Mental Game With Better Brain Power 1:09:14

3M ago1:09:14

1:09:14

Unlock the secrets to superior mental sharpness and explore groundbreaking strategies to boost your cognitive function, from nutrition hacks and exercise tips to innovative biohacking techniques. Ben Greenfield, a renowned expert in the health and fitness sphere, reveals his top methods for optimizing brain health. Whether you seek to enhance focus…

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277: Garrett Drinon - Musician Turned Trader Trains Algos to Find Unicorns 1:10:15

4M ago1:10:15

1:10:15

The lure of the markets seduced a successful musician into full time trading at a prop firm. Collaborating with other traders, Garrett Drinon learned the market signals, and other ingredients which go into great setups. Wanting to expand his reach, he uses his programming skills to create new algos which help him and his colleagues find the Unicorn…

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276: Will Gogolak - Contextualization Within a Framework of Conditional Probabilities 1:00:21

4M ago1:00:21

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As a risk officer with the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Will Gogolak was setting margin requirements and saw a wide variety of traders’ accounts and what separated the winning traders from the losing ones, before leaving to pursue his own trading and obtaining a PHD in finance and share his knowledge of quantitative analysis and market experience w…

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275: William Lam - The Best Operating System for Elite Performance: Our Minds 1:07:50

5M ago1:07:50

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Experiencing the noticeable communication differences between his childhood culture and his new home in the U.S., William Lam was driven to become aware of how his limiting thoughts imprinted from his family drove unhealthy unconscious actions. Learning how to shape his mental thought process played key roles in fulfilling big desires and creating …

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274: Gary Norden - Keeping the Lost Art of Order Flow Trading Alive 1:14:36

5M ago1:14:36

1:14:36

A humble beginning as a gopher in the intense trading pits of Japanese warrants was shocking for Gary Norden when he was a teenager. As this volatile market was beginning its meltdown, Gary saw how easily star traders lost immense amounts of money as past overconfidence and sloppy risk control undid their previous gains. This impressed upon Gary th…

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273: James Fishback - THIS TIME It’s Different…or Is It 1:03:45

6M ago1:03:45

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James is the co-founder and Chief Investment Officer of Azoria Partners, a global macro investment firm. Prior to Azoria, he served as the Head of Macro at Greenlight Capital, a two-billion-dollar hedge fund led by David Einhorn. He is also the founder of Incubate Debate, America’s fastest-growing high school debate league. As a former national hig…

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Chat With Traders End of 2023 Message 3:07

6M ago3:07

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Chat With Traders End of 2023 Message Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Tessa Dao

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272: Erik Smolinski - Marine Corps Discipline Crushes the Markets 1:19:55

7M ago1:19:55

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Growing up poor and living in violent neighborhoods didn’t stop Erik Smolinski from being motivated and curious. Erik only needed to hear a few words about investing including the power of compounding from his high school instructor to light the passion and determination to take ACTION. The discipline, responsibility, accountability, and patience h…

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Musk under the microscope: dissecting Elon's recent appearances on Joe Rogan and Lex Fridman 1:08:23

7M ago1:08:23

1:08:23

Greetings ye surfers of The Discourse! If podcasts were scented, today’s episode would exude a sweet, though somewhat mildewed musk, courtesy of the main subject of discussion: Mr Elon. Elon Musk is a noted memer and rascal entrepreneur, famed for his erratic stewardship of several attention-grabbing companies, and for his many blundering and awkwa…

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271: Tom Basso - The Sweet Balance Between Risk and Reward 1:14:02

7M ago1:14:02

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Experiencing the brutal bear market of 1973-74 impressed upon Tom the necessity to find ways to hedge risk. This began a multi year long quest to find the right combination of uncorrelated assets, technical indicators and adjust the weightings as needed to provide enough protection to fill in the potholes of equity drawdowns while retaining the bul…

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270: What Keeps You in the Game of Trading? 1:05:34

8M ago1:05:34

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Every now and then, we like to switch things up and take a break from our usual program. Today, we present a special episode for that purpose. So, what keeps you in the trading game? The voices you hear in the podcast introduction belong to our listeners from all over the world. We share these voices with you because we believe you will be able to …

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Breaking Down Konstantin Kisin's Takes (Feat. Chris Williamson and More) 1:29:27

8M ago1:29:27

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Welcome, Discourse Surfers! In this episode, we peer behind the curtain that conceals Konstantin Kisin, and let me tell you, there’ll be no Kisin up to the fellow here. While he exhibits all the superficial trimmings of a well-groomed thinker, upon closer inspection we find him rather epistemically-bedraggled - at least, on certain topics. He seems…

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269: Rob Hanna - Reducing Anxiety and Drawdowns through Quantifiable Edges 1:18:43

8M ago1:18:43

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The shock of his first major losing year in 2004 as a discretionary trader, propelled Rob Hanna to find quantifiable statistical advantages that would help mitigate the fluctuations in his equity curves. Knowing the dangers of curve fitting, in trying to find that ‘perfect’ system, Rob zeroed in on simpler approaches that would combine seasonality,…

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268: Bryan Holdford - Is Loss Control All It Takes to Become Consistent? 1:33:10

9M ago1:33:10

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Paying to take and pass the Series 7 license as a teenager in the 1980’s led Bryan Holdford into the high commission world of stocks and options without mentors or the internet. Starting with investment newspapers Bryan tried many trading ideas without any risk controls. Despite frequent and numerous losses, he was hooked on the game of trading. Ob…

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Who’s talking sense on the Ukraine war? (Hint: not these people) 1:09:08

9M ago1:09:08

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Welcome to the discourse! Today we’re going to take a peep at what the commentariat have to say about the war in Ukraine – a topic that has proven irresistible to non-expert partisans of all stripes. As we’ll see, there’s a particular narrative that has bubbled up in the discourse – seeded by an absolute scallywag of a political scientist, John Mea…

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Analysing the Right-Wing Reactions to the Russell Brand Scandal (feat Ben Shapiro, Dave Rubin, and more!) 46:15

9M ago46:15

46:15

We're doing something a bit different this week - surfing further afield than normal, to get a feel for the broader conversation 0n a topic that's on everyone's lips: the scurrilous (and rather serious) allegations against Russell Brand. In this episode, I sketch a cross-sectional view of the conspiratorial-right-wing's reaction to it, by looking a…

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267: Dan McDermitt - An Edge with Correlations Across Time Frames 1:13:50

9M ago1:13:50

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Stinging losses with mutual funds in 2008 drove Dan to become an active manager of his portfolio. Enticed by the legalization prospects of marijuana, he dived into learning the fundamentals and technicals of the sector. Learning how these stocks traded relative to each other, he cultivated an awareness of the correlations between these companies. T…

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Untangling Eric Weinstein's appearance on Modern Wisdom with Chris Williamson 1:06:46

10M ago1:06:46

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G'day discourse surfers! Join me as we surf the foamy wave of Eric Weinstein's recent conversation with Chris Williamson. This is an exhilarating ride - though the seas are rather perilous; strewn as they are with Eric's jargon and obscure references, as well as his murky arguments and cloudy concepts. The conversation dwells on the misbehavior of …

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266: Mark Bennell - Mind Your Business: Be Like An Employee 1:32:12

10M ago1:32:12

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An engineer at the core, Mark Bennell, a Private Trader who has been trading full-time for 15 years breaks down what it really means to “Treat Trading As a Business” and why this mindset was incredibly important in turning his trading around and why it has kept him in the game for this long. About Mark Bennell Mark Bennell is a Private Trader who h…

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Deconstructing Andrew Huberman and Lex Fridman’s recent heart-to-heart 59:09

10M ago59:09

59:09

Been wondering what the inestimable Gad Saad has been up to? This episode has the goss. And that’s only the entrée. The main course of the episode is a light analysis of the dynamic duo - Lex Fridman and Andrew Huberman – with a side of amusing clips guaranteed to whet your appetite. Specifically, I’ll be attempting to decipher the recent exchange …

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What is Jordan Peterson up to?? A foray into his recent interviews with Russell Brand and Bill Maher 49:41

10M ago49:41

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Jordan Peterson - the man, the myth, the legend! Some say he has become passé in the political arena; I say the man is an evergreen source of - well - if not good ideas and clear thinking, then at the very least of amusement and salutary lessons in how not to reason. In this episode I examine a couple of his recent interviews: his appearance on Bil…

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265: Peter Stolcers - Taking a Top-Down Approach to Day Trading 1:14:26

11M ago1:14:26

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Seeing and feeling the intensity and chaos of the trading pits back in the 1980’s, Pete knew immediately that trading was the career he had to have. Starting as a floor runner making $5/hr to later trading full time for a living Pete discovered the importance of finding stocks with relative strength during the bear market of 2002. Pete uses a top d…

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That's just Saad - A debrief on Gad Saad's recent appearance on Joe Rogan 56:47

11M ago56:47

56:47

Gad Saad - anti-woke crusader; political firebrand; evolutionary virtuoso; shameless self-promoter - he's a man of many hats.. actually, about 4 or 5 hats, as will become clear in this episode.This is Gad's umpteenth appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience, and there's some indication that, when it comes to Gad's 'self-promoting' hat, Joe's patience…

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264: Gabriel Bullo - Contest Winner: One Trader's Unwavering Dedication 45:52

11M ago45:52

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Growing up poor in the Philippines, Gabriel sought a way to supplement his income. Dealing with the emotional challenges of giving up his profits in his long-term positions, he switched to trading to have a sense of greater control of the outcome. Starting out using many technical indicators, he later switched to just price action as it gave less f…

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283: Trading Football Dreams for Stock Market Touchdowns 59:27

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282: Tony Greer - Staying Selective and Being Adaptable in the Trading Landscape 1:15:15

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281: Marsten Parker - The Purely Systematic Wizard Trader 1:08:27

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280: Steve Hanke - Decoding the Drivers of Inflation and Markets 1:16:03

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279: Saad Filali - Front-Running News Flow Trading 1:08:09

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278: Ben Greenfield - Elevate Your Mental Game With Better Brain Power 1:09:14

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277: Garrett Drinon - Musician Turned Trader Trains Algos to Find Unicorns 1:10:15

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276: Will Gogolak - Contextualization Within a Framework of Conditional Probabilities 1:00:21

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275: William Lam - The Best Operating System for Elite Performance: Our Minds 1:07:50

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274: Gary Norden - Keeping the Lost Art of Order Flow Trading Alive 1:14:36

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273: James Fishback - THIS TIME It’s Different…or Is It 1:03:45

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Chat With Traders End of 2023 Message 3:07

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272: Erik Smolinski - Marine Corps Discipline Crushes the Markets 1:19:55

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Musk under the microscope: dissecting Elon's recent appearances on Joe Rogan and Lex Fridman 1:08:23

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271: Tom Basso - The Sweet Balance Between Risk and Reward 1:14:02

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270: What Keeps You in the Game of Trading? 1:05:34

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Breaking Down Konstantin Kisin's Takes (Feat. Chris Williamson and More) 1:29:27

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269: Rob Hanna - Reducing Anxiety and Drawdowns through Quantifiable Edges 1:18:43

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268: Bryan Holdford - Is Loss Control All It Takes to Become Consistent? 1:33:10

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Who’s talking sense on the Ukraine war? (Hint: not these people) 1:09:08

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Analysing the Right-Wing Reactions to the Russell Brand Scandal (feat Ben Shapiro, Dave Rubin, and more!) 46:15

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267: Dan McDermitt - An Edge with Correlations Across Time Frames 1:13:50

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Untangling Eric Weinstein's appearance on Modern Wisdom with Chris Williamson 1:06:46

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266: Mark Bennell - Mind Your Business: Be Like An Employee 1:32:12

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Deconstructing Andrew Huberman and Lex Fridman’s recent heart-to-heart 59:09

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What is Jordan Peterson up to?? A foray into his recent interviews with Russell Brand and Bill Maher 49:41

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265: Peter Stolcers - Taking a Top-Down Approach to Day Trading 1:14:26

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That's just Saad - A debrief on Gad Saad's recent appearance on Joe Rogan 56:47

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264: Gabriel Bullo - Contest Winner: One Trader's Unwavering Dedication 45:52

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