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145 - The Falling Knife Project: $25K to $750K in 24 Months

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144 - Anatomy of a Trade Bust Gone Wrong

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143 - Throw it on the Pile, Erase your Memory w/ Kris Abdelmessih

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142 - How to Know When a Strategy is Dead

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141 - Guest Appearance - Two Sides of FI

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140 - Guest Appearance - The Derivative

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139 - Real Talk with Real Traders: Justin Kay

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138 - The Path from Ideation to Strategy Deployment

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137 - The Scientific Method of Strategy Development w/ Quantitativo

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136 - Trading Vol Atop the Moontower w/ Kris Abdelmessih

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135 - I Survived Volmageddon 2.0

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134 - The Architecture of Risk Management w/ David Reyes

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133 - Systematic Carry Ensembles w/ Adam Butler

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132 - Many Funds, Zero Delta w/ Gary Selz & Kristopher Gilboy

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131 - A Tale of Two Momentums w/ Gary Antonacci

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130 - Strategies as Assets

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129 - Optimizing for Happiness w/ Jared Dillian

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128 - A Different Way to Outpeform w/ Rodrigo Gordillo

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127 - First Principles: Think in Components

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126 - What's in the BOXX? w/ Wes Gray

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125 - First Principles: Don't be a Turkey

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124 - First Principles: Volatility Steals Your Edge

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123 - First Principles: Know Your Edge

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122 - Guest Appearance - ReSolve Riffs

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121 - Candle Ball Live FOMC Edition - 1/31/2024

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120 - Guest Appearance - The TradeHacker Mindset

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119 - Theta Engine Update Q4 2023

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118 - It's Easy to Beat the Market... Just Run a Business!

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117 - Real Talk with Real Traders: Notional Ed

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116 - Introducing the Option Omega Academy

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115 - The Almost Immaculate Half - Q3 2023

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114 - Don't Get Distracted by Squiggly Lines

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113 - Why Do We Even Trade?

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112 - Trend Following Plus Nothing w/ Jerry Parker

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111 - ERN Roundtable - To Wing or Not to Wing?

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98 - Hedging Roundtable w/ Notional Ed and Mike A

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110 - BBP07 - Dynamic Slippage

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109 - The Immaculate Quarter - Q2 2023

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108 - Candle Ball Live - 6/29/2023

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107 - Guest Appearance - The Matt Kohrs Show

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106 - Real Talk with Real Traders: Amy the Archivist

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105 - Season 4 - Where Are We Now?

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104 - Behind the Volatility Curtain w/ The Wizard of Ops

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103 - SFT03 - The Chimera Lab Strategy Combiner

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102 - Real Talk with Real Traders: Kirk from Speaking Greeks

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101 - Introducing ERN 3.0 aka the ERN Ratio Strangle Strategy

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100 - Return Stacking & Portable Alpha w/ Corey Hoffstein

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99 - SFT02 - Rapid Formula Updating

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97 - SFT01 - Tradelog Basics

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96 - Real Talk with Real Traders: Mark Anderson

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95 - BBP06 - Slippage Discussion w/ Rusty from Option Omega

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94 - BBP05 - Commissions and Fees

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93 - Real Talk with Real Traders: Traveling Fox

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92 - BBP04 - The Perfect Backtest

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91 - Candle Ball Live - 4/12/2023

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90 - Offense wins Games. Defense wins Championships w/ Jason Buck

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89 - Fourteen Months Later, Theta Engine is Back to All Time High!

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88 - Theta Engine Update Q1 2023

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87 - BBP03 - Garbage In, Garbage Out

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86 - BBP02 - Closed Trades vs Mark to Market

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85 - BBP01 - Journey vs Destination

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84 - Backtesting Best Practices & Spreadsheeting for Traders

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83 - Candle Ball Live - 3/6/2023

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82 - Guest Appearance - The Wall Street Coach

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81 - Introducing ERN 2.0 aka the ERN Strangle Strategy

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80 - The Theta Engine Longitudinal Study

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79 - Theta Engine Update Q4 2022

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78 - Hacking Expectancy, or Breaking the Market? w/ Matt Hollerbach

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77 - Portfolio Investing w/ Ron Bertino

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76 - The Trade Busters Portfolio Tracker

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75 - The Trade Busters Model Portfolio

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74 - From FIRE to PCR w Karsten Jeske aka Big ERN

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73 - Introducing the ERN Put Strategy

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72 - Guest Appearance - Chat With Traders

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71 - Trading for a Cause w/ Brian Lee

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69 - Trend Following the Trend Followers w/ Andrew Beer

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68 - No-Code Trading Bots w/ Kirk Du Plessis

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67 - Season 2 Wrap-Up and Theta Engine Update Q3 2022

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66 - Truth or Skepticism Trade Busters Edition w/ Tom Sosnoff

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65 - Guest Appearance - Speaking Greeks

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64 - Hedging Revisited

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63 - Return on Time and Actively Passive Investing

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62 - Guest Appearance - Flirting with Models

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61 - Theta Engine Update Q2 2022

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60 - One Minus One Does NOT Equal Zero

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59 - Mental Capital and Pot Odds

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58 - From Rising Star to Trade Buster

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57 - Backtesting to build Conviction w/ Rusty from Option Omega

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56 - Theta Engine Update Q1 2022

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55 - Optimizing for Return vs. Optimizing for Conviction

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54 - The Theta Engine Matrix

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53 - Portfolio Margin Trading Tactics w/Ron Bertino

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53 - Portfolio Margin Trading Tactics w/Ron Bertino

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52 - Trinity Command Center

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51 - Options Chat with David Jaffee

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50 - Anatomy of a Tradelog

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49 - Guest Appearance - Stock Market Options Trading

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48 - Where Do I Start?

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47 - It Works Until it Doesn't... Doesn't it?

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46 - Can Rolling Really Keep the Dream Alive?