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The Derivative — 234 episodes
So You Want to Start an ETF? With Gavin Filmore of Tidal
Too Basic to Notice, Too Big to Ignore: Tom Ferguson on the VC Opportunity in Water Tech
This City Trades Different: Yogi, the Floor, and Building RCM
How Chicago Became the World’s Options, Vol, and Derivatives Capital (with Cboe’s Rob Hocking & Mandy Xu)
Inside $2B of Chicago Real Estate: Tommy Choi on Housing, Migration, and Millennials
“Dr. Copper”: From Chilean Mines to Chinese Smelters to AI Data Centers in the US - with Kurt Nelson & Natalie Scott-Gray
The Doctor who Traded Pork Bellies: Patrick Welton's Journey from Stanford Oncologist to one of Trend Following's Quiet Legends
Painting Corners to Protecting Portfolios: Former MLB pitcher Scott Karl on How Athletes Blow the Money, Alts, the Mental Side of Performance, and the NIL Era
Crisis Alpha, Cocoa Trends, and Correlated Trendlessness: Inside Aspect Capital’s Strategy with Christopher Reeve
Status of Alternatives - A Live Recording from Uncorrelated Puerto Rico
Spring Six Pack talking Florida Conferences, Bonds, AI & Hand Dryers
The Hedge Fund that Polls Regular People Where Markets Are Going ?
Oil, War, and the Strait of Hormuz: What current events look like through the eyes of an energy trader
OpenSnow’s Joel Gratz built a Pod Shop for Powder Days: the PMs are Meteorologists and the Returns are Faceshots. Send It!
Drone Wars, Space Intelligence, and AI-powered Defense Tech Investing with Ian Winer of Center15 Capital
SuperCars, Salad, and Sumo Wrestlers: Inside OneRiver’s Systematic Risk Mitigation Playbook with Patrick Kazley
Carry, Calendar Spreads, and Climate: Bruce Sinclair on the Future of Grain Markets
Going Nuclear: How Uranium is Powering Portfolios with Trevor Hall & Justin Huhn
Defensive Equity, Flex Options, and the Future of Quant at PGIM
Timing, Triggers & Transparency: Inside Potomac Funds’ Tactical Investing Playbook with Dan Russo
From Venezuelan Oil to Nuclear Frontiers: Navigating Resource Markets with Robert Mullin
The 2025 market review draft, talking Bears, Crypto Cycles & AI Paradoxes with David Dziekanski & Zed Francis
Signing Off for 2025: The Derivative Returns in January!
Building a Commodity Trader Multi-Strat with Tom Holliday of HIP investment
When the Gales of November Come Early: the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, and Modern Maritime Trade with Sal Mercogliano
Volatility's Heartbeat, the AI Boom, and MJ’s Bulls with Equity Armor’s Brian Stutland
Engineering Alpha using Trend and Volatility on Equity Beta with Eric Leake of ALTUS Private Capital
Overheard at a Stacked Portable Alpha Symposium
Beyond Buy and Hold: Q3 Asset Mgmt's Quantitative Approach to Tactical Investing with Bruce Greig & Brad Giaimo
NASDAQ 100, Options & Volatility: 0DTE, Tail Hedges, Structured Products — with Kevin Davitt & Nicholas Smith
Bridgewater, Botany & Breaking the 2&20 mold with Unlimited ETFs' Bob Elliott
Solo Summer Six-Pack: Talking Trend, AI, Leverage, and Hurricanes
Beyond Traditional Trend: Leveraging Experience, Short Term, and Crypto with Mike Stendler
Beef Prices at All-Time Highs: Inside the Meat Markets with Jeff Apel of Wharton Capital
Options Alchemy: How Bernie Yu of Patronus Capital Transforms Market Making into Strategic Investing
Family Offices: an inside look on who runs them and how you get that seat, with Brian Adams of Mack International
Tech, Trust, and Tactical Investing: A New Era of Wealth Management with Kevin Jamali of Farther
Pivotal Perspectives: Decoding the Modern Hedge Fund Landscape with Jon Caplis
Is Trend Following Dead? (Again…) A Deep Dive with Crabel’s Grant Jaffarian
Value Creation Over Financial Engineering: Kinzie Capital’s Suzanne Yoon on Modern Private Equity
Stacking Assets: Bitcoin, Gold, and the Future of Portfolio Diversification with David Dziekanski of Quantify Funds
Podshops, Prices, and Physical Flows: A Commodity Trading Framework with Stephane Bernhard of CAM/ETG
The Endowment Playbook: Balancing Long-Term Goals with Current Market Volatility
WTF is this market? - with Vineer Bhansali of LongTail Alpha
Trends, Tall Heads, and Transformations with Transtrend’s Harold de Boer
A Four-Stack Pod, talking stacking assets with Return Stacked ETFs
Unlocking the Equity Risk Premium with Dividend Futures
Options give you Options with Scott Phillips of Lavaca Capital
Unlocking the Commodity Risk Premium with Kurt Nelson of SummerHaven
The State of AI, and AI in Alternative Investments with Mohammad Rasouli of AIx2
A US state with a sovereign wealth fund? Utah’s new approach to old money with Peter Madsen
General George Cashington had a Dream of a Grand Financial System (a humorous prelude to Season 5)
The Polymath Pod: Jason Buck and Zed Francis talk rates, vol, and cheeseburgers?!
Retail to Institutional: How David Sun Scaled His ODTE Options Strategies
Blending Insurance and Credit Expertise: How Obra Capital Finds Opportunities in Unique Situations
Carmika Partners Unpack the August Volatility Spike and Complexities of Options Trading
Is there Alpha in boring old Muni-Bonds, with Riverbend Capital
Trend, Prop, and Being Allergic to Optimization with Bill Gebhardt of 10Dynamics
China Tech, Carbon, and Option Overlays in ETFs? Yep, with James Maund of KraneShares
Unpacking the Sell-Off! Awesome Insights from discretionary macro trader Asim Ghaffar
Hedge Fund Quants Unlock the Power of Dispersion: Versor's Unique Cross-Sectional Relative Value Approach
Volatility Vultures: Hunting for Options Talent with Gary Selz of Zero Delta
Carry On: Demystifying the Carry Trade with Rodrigo Gordillo & Adam Butler of ReSolve
Surviving Adversity, Building Resilience, and Evolving a Quantitative Investment Firm with Joe Kelly of Campbell
50 Charts showing the Current State of Volatility, with Jeremie Holdom and Colin Suvak of LongTail Alpha
Finding Alpha in Unexpected Places: Doug Greenig on Trend Following Beyond Developed Markets
Optimizing the Supply Chain: Private Equity, Automation, and Economic Indicators in Logistics with Chris Jamroz
Constructing A Systematic Oil Trader: Fueling growth at Cayler Capital
Miami Hedge Fund week Panel 2024 Part II: Increasing Accessibility of Alternative Investments
Set Phasers to Stocks+Discretionary Global Macro – with Dynamic Alpha
Miami Hedge Fund week panel 2024 - Commodities: Outlook on Prices, Volatility, and Portfolio Diversification
Advanced Hedge Fund Replication with the Top Down – riding diverse ETF modeling flows with DBi’s Andrew Beer
Marrying Fundamental Factors into Commodity Quant with Patrik Safvenblad of VOLT CM
A brief history of Corn, food co valuations, GMO vs non GMO, and a guacable chip with Zack’s Mighty founder Zack Gazzaniga
Trend Following Asset Allocations with Jon Robinson of Blueprint
Systematic Commodity Trading (without Trend) with Jae-Min Hyun of NWOne
A Philly Alts Steak: Talking Commodities, Stacking, and Systematic with Auspice, Newfound & Campbell
Opportunities in Option Mutual Funds with Russ Kellites
Long/Short Commodities with Emil van Essen & Bryan Kiernan of Katonah/EVE
Portfolios of Power Futures with AMPD ETF’s Tim Kramer
Why Systematic? Why CTA? Why Now? A panel event with Mercer, Campbell, EMC Capital, & Resolve
Trend Following Plus Nothing with Jerry Parker
The World of Equity Hedging, Part II with Jason Buck
Volatility (LIVE IN VEGAS) panel discussion
Replicating Babies, Trend Following, Hedge Funds, and Warren Buffet with Corey Hoffstein
Global EQD ’23 Breakdown with Jason Buck (part 1)
The Current state of Commercial Real Estate: Armageddon or Overblown? Setting things straight with Matt Lasky of Equity Velocity Funds
Adding Spreads and Options to Trend Following, with Moritz Seibert
AI isn’t coming…it’s already here, with Adam Butler and Taylor Pearson
Alt (Digital) Trend Following with Sarah Schroeder of Coinbase Asset Mgmt.
Stories for Traders: A Trend followers’ journey through it all with Andrew Strasman of Totem Asset Group
What are the Options for tech employee Options, With Bryce Emo of Sidecar Financial
Searching for Volatile Macro Environments with Alfonso Peccatiello, The Macro Compass
The Conscientious Culture behind Risk Control with Kapil Rastogi of PlusPlus
Setting the record straight – Trend following: the proof is in the track record with Marty Bergin of DUNN Capital
WTF?! Will 0DTE Cause Gammageddon? With Mike Green and Craig Peterson
You still don’t have enough Trend Following or Foreign Equity exposure with Meb Faber
Volatility as an Asset Class with Jason Buck, Zed Francis, Rodrigo Gordillo, and Luke Rahbari
We’re Back!! Talking Trend, Miami, and Volatility with Nasdaq’s Kevin Davitt
Why hasn’t “VOL” done better amidst stock market losses in 2022 with Logica’s Wayne Himelsein
What the hell is going on in logistics and is there any relief in sight? with Woodson Dunavant
Getting Long Skew in Short (term) trading models, with Quest Partner's President, Michael Harris
Being a GenZ’er during Crypto Winter with @DeadCaitBounce's Caitlin Cook
WTF is LDI, and What’s working in Vol Trading with Zed Francis of Convexitas
Is there room for a VIX competitor, SPIKES founder Simon Ho sure thinks so.
Hurricanes, Cat Bonds, and the Billions at Risk with Dr. Jeff Masters and Chris McKeown
The Game of Trading with SIG Alums Kris A, Tina L, & Steiner
Trends, Inflation Protection, & Getting Investors to the Finish Line with Eric Crittenden of Standpoint
Nobody is prepared for a 2nd leg down, with Ari Bergmann of Penso Advisors
The Business of Staying Wealthy with Homer Smith of Konvergent Wealth
There’s no Stupid Options questions, just Stupid Options Courses, SurgiFi attends Benn Eifert’s Class
Using the Laws of Trading to find our edge with Agustin Lebron
It's not whether commodities keep going up, it's whether they remain distinct and volatile with Tim Pickering of Auspice
YOLO is BS, and Investing as just one Dimension of Wealth with Brian Portnoy of Shaping Wealth
Don’t Call it Private Equity, Seeking Value (and Tax Alpha) in Small Business with Adam Tkaczuk
Covering Calls and Charting Curves with Jay Soloff of Investors Alley
Cotton the Canary, Why it’s a leading indicator, and how it’s traded with Ron Lawson
Trend Following Crypto with Leigh Drogen of Starkiller
TIPS, Options & Rates. Increased Volatility environments with Nancy Davis
It’s Not a Fed Put, it’s a Fed Short Call! And more inflation thoughts with StoneX’s Vincent Deluard
Algorithmic Sports Betting, Trading Metals to Trending Commodities, & Crypto’s Future with Charlie McGarraugh of Blockchain.com
What happens in Vegas…. Gets Dished on this Pod. Overheard at a Derivatives Conference, Part 1
Wine as an Asset Class: Demands, Dilemmas, & Distribution with Vinovest's Anthony Zhang
Vol Arb, Rates Vol, Dispersion, & Risk Premium. Part II with Noel Smith
Setting the Risk Parity Record Straight (it’s NOT just stocks/bonds) with Resolve’s Rodrigo Gordillo and Mike Philbrick
The Glory Days, Market Making & Trading Options at the CBOE with Noel Smith of Convex AM
Trend Following, Signal Deterioration, & Crypto Modelling With Quant Artur Sepp
What’s New about the New -1x/+2x VIX ETFs SVIX and UVIX, w/ Stuart Barton, Jim Carroll & Vance Harwood
Using Emotions to Make Better Decisions and Deliver Results with ReThink’s Denise Shull
Hedge Funds vs ETFs, Passive vs Active, 70s Inflation vs Now, & Commodities vs CTAs with Simplify's Mike Green
Why is intraday trading so hard, Where is the ES liquidity, and When are most market moves happening (overnight), with Deepfield’s CEO, Bastian Bolesta
The Trillions of Dollars tracking Three Million Indices, with F.T.'s Finance Correspondent, Robin Wigglesworth
Commodity Volatility, Global Macro, and Trend Following with Alan Dunne from Archive Capital
Vol Persistence, The Unholy Trinity of Risk, and the (100 yr) Dragon Portfolio for our 100th episode with Chris Cole
A Macro take on Russia’s Gambit, Oil, Gold, Bitcoin and more with Luke Gromen
VIX in the 30s, talking market shocks and VIX spikes with Brian Stutland of Equity Armor
Trend following. The dynamic systems & strategies that make up a modern CTA, w/ EMCs John Krautsack
High Frequency Trading and Systematic Macro Funds with Matthew Hanna of Teza Technology
Wood is Good! With the Lords of Lumber: Stinson Dean and Kyle Little
Protecting the Portfolio not with Long Vol, but with Long Gamma, with Convexitas
Talking Tech, VC, eSports, Uranium, Bitcoin & more with Dr. Chris Dark
Emissions Trading and Carbon Allowance Futures with Michael Azlen
2021's Vol moves, 2022's outlook, Meme stocks, Option Flows and KAI with Cem Karsan
Welcome to The Derivative by RCM Alternatives
The Bitcoin ETF parade and Grayscale Trust, with Jason Urban of Galaxy Digital
A Multi PM (Global) Macro Masterclass with Markian Zyga
Attaining an Allocator's Edge with Phil Huber
Convex (CONVX) to the Core with Certeza’s Brett Nelson
Weigh More than You Wanted to Know About Meat, with AgriTrend’s Simon Quilty
Reimagining Risk and Reinsurance (& Cat Bonds) with Chris McKeown of Vantage Risk
Why Whales Tails Whip Up Market Tremors with Hari Krishnan
Blissfully Buying BB Bonds with Greg Obenshain of Verdad Capital
Researching the Risks of Return Stacking with Corey Hoffstein & Rodrigo Gordillo
Digging Deep into ETFs with Davie Nadig of ETF Trends
Options to Trend Following, and Back Again with Scot Billington of Covenant Cap.
Valuations….Are you F*&^ing Insane, with Howard Lindzon
Charting a Chinese Commodities Course with Fred Schutzman of Abingdon Global
BITFD & Wake the F Up with Ben Hunt of Epsilon Theory
Behind the Buffered Notes Bonanza With Joe Halpern of Exceed Investments
"Maybe I’m the Retail Idiot" with Bill Brewster
Teams of Options to Tackle the Tails with Jerry Haworth of 36 South
The Kaoboy of Convertible Arb with Michael Kao
Engineering, Exponentials, Enigmas, and Equations with Breaking the Market’s Matt Hollerbach
The Kid who Kaptures Kurtosis with Kris Sidial of Ambrus Group
Tis This Inflation Transitory with CME Group Economist Erik Norland
Sowing the Seeds of AI Strategies with Howard Siow of Taaffeite Capital Management
Carefully Constructing a Cockroach (portfolio) with Mutiny Funds Jason Buck and Taylor Pearson
Blame it on the Bossa Nova with New Market Wizard Tom Basso
WTF ^%$# is Happening With Crypto??
Allocating Assets and Attracting Allocators with Ted Seides
The NON-Wisdom of Crowds with Nigol Koulajian of Quest Partners
Turning the Tables: Trading Pits and Dip Spits with RCM’s Jeff Malec
A Crude Oil Cornucopia: Covid, Crack, CSOs & Contango with Brent Belote of Cayler Capital
Yep, She's Opening Up Option Eyes with NOPE It's Lily
Asian Markets, American Investments, & Accessing (Chinese) Futures with Alvin Fan of OPIM
eSports, ETFs, and Enormous Deals with the Sports Pomp, Joe Pompliano
Making Market Music with Roy Niederhoffer with Roy Niederhoffer
Modeling Markets and Accessing AI with Robert Rotella and Jag Prakasam
Taming the Tails with LongTail Alpha’s Vineer Bhansali
Crazy Commodity Cycles (and cross-continent motorcycles) with Jim Rogers
The VOLvengers: Wayne Himelsein (Iron Man) & Mike Green (Captain America)
Playing like a Poker Pro in Life/Investments/Career with Chris Sparks
Vol - Benn There, Done That with Benn Eifert of QVR Advisors
The Bull and Bear Cases for Bitcoin with Meltem Demirors & Nic Carter
Wallstreet Bets Busts Wallstreet? WTF ^%$#
Wisdom from the Wizard Maker with Jack Schwager
Gold, Gas, and Global Inflation with Diego Parrilla of Quadriga Asset Managers
Butler and Buck Back to Bookend 2020
2020’s Best Strategies, Styles, and Stories with Adam Butler and Jason Buck
Cover to Trend Legends Cover with Michael Covel
Really? Real Estate? Right Now? with Matt Lasky and Darren Kottle
Overheard at a Vol Conference, breaking down EQD Global 2020
The Mysteries and Makings of Machine Learning with Dr. Ernie Chan of QTS Cap
Don’t Buy the Narrative (and It’s All Narrative) with Epsilon Theory’s Ben Hunt
No President Yet, So Market Rallies Huge What ^%$#?
Who Would Want to SELL Options, with Mark Adams of Warrington Asset Management
Debunking Trend Following’s Dead Theories with Kathryn Kaminski
Vol Curves and Vanna Charm with Cem Karsan
Super Storms, Mathematical Modeling, and Hurricane Hunting with Dr. Jeff Masters
Bull Markets, Behavioral Biases, and Blogs with Baird’s Michael Antonelli
Sequencing, Skew, and (Option) Strikes with Hari Krishnan
A Professor, Prop Trader, & Risk Manager walk into a bar, with Victor Canto
Market Up/Vol Up, Market Down/Vol Down…WTF Episode
Canadian Commodities and Building Business with Tim Pickering of Auspice Capital Advisors
Straddles, SVXY, and (Gamma) Scalping with Logica’s Mike Green
Expect the Expected and Control the Controllable with Russ Rausch of Vision Pursue
Trend Following Turtle Tails (and Tales) with Jerry Parker
Do Hedge Funds Suck? With Max Nissman, Olivier d’Assier, and Scott Treloar
Seeking (VIX) Certainty with Certeza's Brett Nelson
BLNDX[ing] Trend Following and Global Equity with Standpoint’s Eric Crittenden
Why Charts and What Data with Sean Brown of YCharts
5 Asia/China Focused Hedge Funds, 1 Podcast!
$TVIX gets Terminated – What^%$#
Noodling on Ensembles, Trend, & Convexity with Newfound’s Corey Hoffstein
Allocating to Alts with RPMs Alexander Mende
Navigating Market Volatility with CBOE’s Kevin Davitt, Wayne Himelsein of Logica Capital Advisers, Jason Buck of Mutiny Fund, and Bastian Bolesta of Deep Field Capital.
Black Swans, Gray Rhinos, and Tigers..Oh My with Michele Wucker
Tagging a Value to Pro Sports Teams with Bob Reif and Josh Moscot of TAG
Uncovering the Known Unknowns of the Pandemic with Chief Economist Blu Putnam, ReSolve's Rodrigo Gordillo, and Teza's Dan Deering
Tackling Trading Technologies and (lower case t) technology with Guy Scott of TT
Texas Style Trend Following with Salem Abraham
Valuing VIX and Volatility with Joe Tigay
Crude Oil goes Negative… What^%$#
Exchanging Intellectual Assets with $TAIL, $SYLD $GVAL ETF-icionado Meb Faber
The principles of VIX trading with Alex Orus of Principalium
Trading Chinese Futures Markets with Abingdon Global
Trading Commodity Volatility – A Woman’s Perspective
Capturing the Global Sell-Off with Bastian Bolesta of Deep Field Capital
Crypto & Bitcoin Lending with Tom Anderson of Drawbridge Lending
Asset Allocation, AI, and the Alpha Process with Resolve Asset Management
Staging a Market Mutiny with Jason Buck and Taylor Pearson of Black Pearl
Decoding Execution Algos with Joe Signorelli & David Don
The Life of a Discretionary Trader with Breakout Funds’ Aaron Larkin & Matt Laviolette
Wayne Himelsein: The Human Behind the Hedge Fund