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Odds on Open — 78 episodes

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Hedge Fund Manager Joseph Walsh: Always Play Weaker Players

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Ex-Goldman MD: "Credit Markets Move in Step Functions"

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Ex-Lehman Trader: AI Won't Give You Edge

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Retail Trader vs. Hedge Fund Manager: Where Is the Real Alpha?

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Ex-IMC Semiconductors Quant: AI Is Good Enough to Beat the S&P 500

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Hedge Fund Manager Alix Pasquet: How Small Funds Can Outsmart Multi-Managers

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⁠Greed Makes Markets: Market Making From First Principles With an HFT Quant

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22-Year-Old Hedge Fund Manager: “Hedge funds are the least sexy business in the world”

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He Started a Quant Fund in His Dorm. Now He's Building the Brokerage for Everything.

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Inside the Billionaire-Backed Prediction Markets Hedge Fund

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World's #1 Oil Hedge Fund Manager: How I Made 200% While Everyone Lost 60%

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The Strategy Behind Asia’s $6 Billion Quant Fund: Quantedge

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Ex-Balyasny PM: “Automation will increase demand for hedge fund talent.”

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~100% Returns in 2025, No Losing Year Since 2008: Erik Smolinski on Edge for Retail Trader Edge

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Ex-Citadel PM: All Hedge Fund Failures Are Because of One Reason - Rich Falk Wallace

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Ex-Two Sigma Quant: You Should Bet Against Bullish Analysts

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Ex-Citadel Quant on Trading the Most Asymmetric Market - Neel Somani

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LTCM Co-founder Victor Hagani: “Taking Risk Is Always a Negative.”

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Quant Hedge Fund Partner: Raising Capital Is Harder Than Generating Returns

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Ex-WorldQuant Head of Data Strategy: Quants “Don’t Care About the Stock Market”

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The Secret to Uncorrelated Alpha in Crypto - Leigh Drogen on Starkiller Capital’s Sharpe Ratio of 4

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“Market Crashes Are Good for My Strategy” - One-Man Hedge Fund PM George Livadas

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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

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How Billionaire Hedge Fund Managers Are Using Generative AI to Invest

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

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

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

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

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

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

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“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

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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

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

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

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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

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SIG Director: How Susquehanna Trains Top Traders with Poker

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

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

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Partners at Versor Reveal Their Quant Strategies Managing $1.4 Billion

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

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Hedge Fund Manager Alix Pasquet: Why Smart People Lose Money

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

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

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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

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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

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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.

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

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

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

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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

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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"

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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

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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