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Odds on Open — 56 episodes

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“If it is easy and obvious, there is no edge in it” - TD Quant Matt Schrager

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Ex-Tudor Quant PM: “There Hasn't Been a New Idea in Trading for 15 Years”

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“Concentrated Strategies Will Do Extremely Well” - Sean Emory on Outperforming the Index

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“It’s the Dumbest Market in the World” - Quant Trader Scott Phillips on Edge in Crypto

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Now Is the Best Time to Become a Junior Analyst - Ex-Citadel and D. E. Shaw PM Brett Caughran

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"Positions Can Be LESS Risky at Higher Prices" - Derek Pilecki on Finding Edge in Financials

7

How Billionaire Hedge Fund Managers Are Using Generative AI to Invest

8

How the World’s Largest Oil Derivatives Trading Firm Is Navigating the Iran War

9

Annie Duke on Thinking in Bets - And Why Winners Can Be Wrong

10

Meet the 25-Year-Old Running a Multi-Manager Hedge Fund

11

Alpha Comes From a Differentiated View - Ex-Point72 Prop Research Head Kirk McKeown on Edge in 2026

12

What Druckenmiller Style Investing Gets Wrong - Alfonso Pecatiello on Edge in Macro Trading

13

“I think of everything as a bet” - Ex-SIG Quant Trader Andrew Courtney

14

“Conviction is dangerous” - Emerging Markets Hedge Fund Manager Sinan Xin

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“AI Makes Analysts Lazy” - Hedge Fund Manager Alix Pasquet on the Importance of Analog Training

16

Why 20% of Hedge Funds Fail After One Year - Claudia Quintela on Why Managers Need Business Sense

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How I Built a 1.4-Billion-Dollar Quant Fund - Deepak Gurnani on Founding Versor Investments

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This Ex-Poker Pro Built a Hedge Fund by Betting Against Beta – David Orr on Asymmetric Bets

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How Leading Multi Strat Funds Hire - Recruiting Director Jesse Skaff on the Hedge Fund Talent War

20

How the World’s #1 Prediction Markets Trader Finds Edge! - Domer on Trading Global Political Events

21

Why SIG Tells Traders Not to Hedge! - Ex-SIG Trader and Moontower Founder, Kris Abdelmessih

22

How High Frequency Trading Became “The Most Cutthroat Business!” - Ex-HFT Trader, Annanay Kapila

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Youngest-Ever Citadel MD: What It’s Like to Work Side-by-Side with Ken Griffin

24

SIG Director: How Susquehanna Trains Top Traders with Poker

25

Ex–Goldman and DRW Trader on Trading Before Algorithms Took Over

26

Ex-AIA Quant Director: Every Hedge Fund That Fails Makes THIS Mistake

27

Partners at Versor Reveal Their Quant Strategies Managing $1.4 Billion

28

Ex- Citadel Analyst and Millennium PM: What It’s Like Inside Both Hedge Funds

29

Hedge Fund Manager Alix Pasquet: Why Smart People Lose Money

30

GBE Founder Cory Paddock: Great Traders Know When a Regime Change Is Coming

31

Christina Qi Started a Hedge Fund From Her Dorm Room. Now, Top Trading Firms Now Buy Her Data.

32

159 Billion-Dollar Quant Investor: Stop Only Investing in the S&P500

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She Left Citadel and Built a BILLION-DOLLAR Hedge Fund

34

Former Nomura Managing Director: How the Sell-Side Created Modern Quant Finance

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Former Global Trading Director at Cargill: Edge in Commodities Trading Starts With Relationships

36

Hedge Fund Manager Ernie Chan: Use GenAI to Manage Risk, Not Predict Return

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Ex-PDT Partners Director on How Small Trading Firms Can Still Compete

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Former AQR and Two Sigma VP: How Quant Funds Will Use GenAI to Find Edge

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Chris Kantos: How Natural Language Processing Can Generate Alpha

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Quant Trader and Kinetic Founder: Trading the Market is Like Playing Poker

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Robert Carver Ran a Multi-Billion Dollar Systematic Portfolio for Man AHL. Now He Invests Solo.

42

Ex-Jane Street Trader: How to Find “Edge” in the Markets and Real Life

43

Venture Capitalist Avik Ashar: VC Is How Asia’s Richest Future-Proof Their Businesses

44

Venture Capitalist Guy Horowitz: Some of the Best Founders are Assholes

45

Goodnotes COO Minh Tran: Schools That Ignore AI Will Fall Behind

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Quant Researcher and YouTuber Dimitri Bianco: Your Finance Degree is Worthless

47

Investment Migration Expert Krista Victorio: You Can Buy a Passport (Legally)

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$1M+ Consultant Davide Sola: For True Success, "Think in Generations, Not Quarters"

49

After Years as a Startup Advisor, Illai Gescheit Says Kindness Is Edge

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How Ryan Manuel Built an AI Startup Turning Policy Into Alpha

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How Silicon Sands’ Seth Dobrin Is Investing in a Future Where AI Is Used Responsibly

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From Author to Publisher: How Dhira Vidhea Built Indonesia’s First Digital Literary Agency

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Where Energy, Grit, and Optimism Take You: How Keith Breslauer Went From Working at Lehman Brothers to Starting a €5 Billion Private Equity Firm

54

Daniel Mika Built an AI Startup at 17. Seven Years Later, He Invests in Them.

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When the Only Way is Up: Earl Valencia Turned $5 Million in Startup Funding Into Emerging Market Success

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From Junk to Riches: How Kirk McKinney Built a Million-Dollar Business Collecting Junk