The AlphaMind Podcast
Episodes
#56 Annie Duke: 'How To Decide' - That's Where The Money Is!
20 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
There are a host of different factors which lead to great trading and investing performance, but at the end of the day, we live and die by the quality...
#55 Dr Tara Swart; Talks about 'Brain Agility' and being 'The Wendy Rhodes of London'
06 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week we are delighted to have Dr Tara Swart on the Podcast. Tara is a qualified psychiatrist and neuroscientist. who left the world of medicine t...
#54 Psychology, Mindset & Ego: AlphaMind interviewed by Tradeciety
20 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This weeks guest was 'us'.In this episode Ralf and Moritz of the Tradeciety interviewed AlphaMind Podcast hosts Steve and Mark about their w...
#53 Morgan Housel - The Psychology of Money
08 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
'The Psychology of Money' is a new book written by former Motley Fool and Wall Street Journal finance columnist Morgan Housel. The book has ...
#52 Beyond Technical Analysis with Robin Bieber
25 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Robin Bieber has been working in the Oil markets for the past 40 years. He has been a trader, broker and analysts, and is now considered one of the le...
#51 Steve Ward - Bullet Proof Trader
12 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Every Trader would love to be bullet proof. To be bulletproof is to be able to survive the mental shots taken at us each and every day in the financia...
#50 John Locke: SMB Capital Options Trader on Developing a Mindset for Trading Success
28 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest this is week is John Locke, an option trader at SMB Capital. John has achieved great success as a trader since starting about 15 years ago h...
#49 The Risk Personality Episode with Geoff Trickey
14 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Geoff Trickey is one of the world’s leading experts on Risk Personality. Geoff says that ‘personality writes your biography’ and believes that k...
#48 Flash Crash - Liam Vaughan on Navinder Sarao and the 2010 Flash Crash
07 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A young man amasses $70,000,000 in trading profits, is accused of causing one of the biggest Stock Market Crashes ever, is the subject of a major US g...
#47 Damian Hughes - The Winning Mindset
23 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A winning mindset is at least as important to trading success as the strategies and tactics you deploy. But how much effort do put into developing a w...
#46 Brian Pezim - Swing Trading and Trading Psychology
09 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Brian is a retail trader who placed his first trade in 1967. Brian still actively trades, is a mentor at the Bear Bull Traders community and is author...
#45 Dr Gary Klein - Decision Making Under Conditions of Uncertainty
04 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The very essence of the challenge of trading and investing is making great decisions, under time pressured situations, when faced with extreme uncerta...
#44 Steven Goldstein's Golden Trading Guidelines
27 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
AlphaMind podcast host Steven Goldstein worked for almost 25 years as a professional trader at Investment Banks in both Market-Making and Proprietary ...
#43 Paul Gordon – Discusses Bitcoin for the Crypto-Curious
12 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Bitcoin, and the world of cryptocurrency, divides opinion. At one end of the scale you’ll find the cynics and sceptics, at the other end those who a...
#42 Dr Brian Keating - How Evidence Sometimes Loses Out to Emotion
29 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week’s guest is Dr Brian Keating, Distinguished Professor of Physics at the University of California, San Diego.In this podcast, we interview D...
#41 Andrew Aziz - Founder of BearBullTraders: The Mind is in The Process
21 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew Aziz is a Retail Trader, Founder of the Bear Bull Community of Traders and is author of Amazon top-selling book, ‘How to Day Trade for a Livi...
#40 Performance Based 'Mindfulness for Traders', with Mark Randall
15 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Mark Randall is Co-Host of the AlphaMind Podcast, but this week he becomes the interview guest. Mark is one of the world’s leaders in the delivery ...
#39 Leading traders reflect on trading through the Coronavirus Crisis
08 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The last few weeks have seen traumatic times in the financial markets. Trading conditions in all markets have seen unparalleled volatility and liquidi...
#38 Denise Shull - Performance Coach to Trading & Investment Professionals
31 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Denise Shull is one of the world’s leading performance coaches. As well as being a former trader herself, Denise focuses on the positive contributio...
#37 Jon Macaskill US Navy Seal Commander - The Power of Mindfulness & Meditation
24 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Mindfulness and meditation can be enormously powerful when engaged in financial markets. These practices have the ability to weaponize the mind for op...
#36 David Tait - Ex-Head of FX Trading at Goldman Sachs: Coping with Extreme Fear
16 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this second interview with David Tait, David talks about fear in trading and how best to cope and manage with the extreme fear which is part of ter...
#35 David Tait - Ex-Head of FX Trading at Goldman Sachs: Life & Trading Can't Be Separated
03 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
David Tait had a fearlessness which made him one of the world’s top traders. This edge helped establish him as one of the leading figures in trading...
#34 Nick Leeson - Rogue Trader: In His Own Words
24 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
25 years ago this week, Barings Bank, founded in 1763, was brought down by the calamitous and illegal trading activities of one of its futures traders...
#33 Anthony Crudele - Successful Trading whilst Managing Stress
18 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Anthony Crudele started as a trader on the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) in the late 1990s. He was one of the youngest members of the...
#32 Dr Daniel Crosby - Your Brain is Not Designed to Trade or Invest
11 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Don't let the title of this episode de-motivate you. The more you know about your brain and how it functions, the greater the likelihood you can ...
#31 Paul Wallace - From Air Force Fighter Controller to Trader
04 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s episode we are in conversation with Paul Wallace. Paul is a private UK based trader, who taught himself trading after getting attract...
#30 David Keller CMT - From Music & Psychology to Investing, Technical Analysis & Behavioural Finance
28 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s episode we are in conversation with David Keller. This is an episode we can only describe as 'Rich': Rich in insight, rich ...
#29 Simon Garcia - The Mental Battle ‘is the Battle’
21 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This podcast episode will fascinate all those who work in trading and investing roles. In this excellent interview with co-hosts Steve and Mark, their...
#28 Jim Simons - The Man Who Solved The Markets – With Greg Zuckerman
14 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Jim Simons is the most successful trader of the last 3 decades by a country mile. Simons founded the Renaissance Technologies the secretive Hedge Fund...
#27 How to Be Better as Traders
07 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the first AlphaMind podcast of 2020 co-hosts Steven Goldstein and Mark Randall share their Top Tips for how to be more effective, more productive, ...
#26 Chris Cain - The Alpha Formula: High Powered Strategies to Beat The Market With Less Risk.
10 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Chris Cain spent a decade working as a Market Maker in Fixed Income products before moving on to work privately as a trader and producing some outstan...
#25 Beat Nussbaumer - 35 years as an Investment Bank FX Trader
03 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Beat Nussbaumer started trading FX in 1984 for UBS in Zurich. Over the next 35 years Beat worked for a who’s who of Investment Banks including Morga...
#24 Nick Smith - The Crossover of Sports Betting & Financial Market Trading
25 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This interview is really in two parts. The first 15 minutes of the interview Nick tells about himself and his new venture, and talks about the compar...
#23 The Trauma of Trading
16 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This episode was sparked by an overwhelming response to a tweet posted this week by podcast host Steven Goldstein on the AlphaMind twitter handle ht...
#22 New York Yankees Performance Coach Dana Cavalea - Habits of a Champion
09 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Dana Cavalea was Strength, Conditioning and Performance Coach for the New York Yankees when they won the world series in 2009. Today he coaches leader...
#21 Benis Kumar - Behavioural Finance and Trading Biases
02 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Benis is a partner and behavioural scientist with 'Final Mile', the world’s leading Behavioural Architecture Consultancy. Behavioural Arc...
#20 Carol Harmer - Technical Trading & Technical Analysis
26 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week’s guest is Carol Harmer. Carol started as a trader working for Midland Bank markets (which later became HSBC Markets), in the early 1980s ...
#19 James Brodie – Trading, Markets, Behavioural Finance, System & Algo Building
19 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
James Brodie has been in and around trading for almost 3 decades. Starting in the early 90s, James worked on trading desks at leading investment banks...
#18 Greg Gossett - 24 Years as a Retail Trader
12 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the AlphaMind podcast we interview veteran retail trader Greg Gossett. Greg is well into his third decade of retail trading, provi...
#17 JJ@vwaptrader1 - Interview Part 2: Getting to the Soul of the Retail Trader
05 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This is the second part of the interview Mark and Steve conducted with retail trader JJ aka vwaptrader1. In the first part of this interview JJ sha...
#16 JJ vwaptrader1- Part 1: Wolf of Wall Street meets Retail Trading
28 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Former Penny Stocks Market-Maker, turned Retail Trader, Trader Educator and host of the superb ‘Confessions of a Market-Maker’ podcast JJ aka &apo...
#15 Chris Tate - Top Aussie Trader bringing the best of your ‘Self’ to the Trading Game
21 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Mark and Steve talk with Australian Trader Chris Tate. Chris joined the markets in the 1980s forging a long and very successful career in the Financia...
#14 Merritt Black discusses the harsh realities traders must embrace to help develop the consistency needed to succeed
07 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Merritt Black is Head of Proprietary Trading at US firm SMB futures. In this deep and very poignant interview, Merritt shares his reflections and thou...
#13 Great Learnings from Master of the Markets: Musings on Our Recent Interviews
31 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast, we explore the purpose of the AlphaMind project, which aims to help people from across the Financial Markets both new and seasoned to...
#12 Mandi Pour Rafsenjani: Developing Traders from the Inside Out & Women in Trading
24 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Mandi is a Trader and Coach from Australia; she works with new and experienced traders helping them develop the inner mindset skills to achieve succes...
#11 Clive Lambert: Technical Analyst to Hedge Fund, Investment Bank, Prop Trading Firms
17 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
There are few more informed people in the world about the nexus of technical analysis and trader behaviour in the financial markets than Clive Lambert...
#10 Dr Brett Steenbarger: Ego, Trading and Spirituality
10 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Dr Brett Steenbarger shares his profound insights from a career working as a psychologist with traders at some of the world’s leadin...
#9 Garth Friesen: ‘A’ List Hedge Fund Manager shares his insights on Trader Mindset
03 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
From a small town in Canada, to a trading role at Merrill Lynch to the CEO of a $6 billion hedge fund and a member of NY Federal Reserve Investor Advi...
#8 Adam Nash: 3 Decades of Trading Success
27 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode co-hosts Steven and Mark talk to Futures Trader Adam Nash. Adam has achieved extraordinary success in a trading career lasting alm...
#7 FX Trader Mark Hutchinson Interview : Growth Mindset in Action
20 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Mark Hutchinson is an outstanding FX Trader who has achieved great success over the past few years. In this excellent interview, Mark shares his jo...
#6 Prop Trading & Market Making
13 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week’s episode of the AlphaMind Podcast sees co-host Steven Goldstein musing over a webinar he gave to a group of Students from some of China’...
#5 Steven Goldstein - Trader Performance Coaching
06 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Steven Goldstein, one of the world’s leading trader performance coaches is interviewed by the podcast Co-Host Mark RandallIn this podcast Steven sha...
#4 Military Grade Trading Mindfulness - Mark Randall Interview
02 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Steven Goldstein interviews co-host Mark Randall. Mark is a Mindulness practitioner and veteran of the Financial Markets. Mark calls...
#3 Growth Mindset in Trading - Developing a Mindset for Success
24 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
June 24, 2019Steven Goldstein & Mark RandallThis episode of the AlphaMind podcast jointly explores the subject of 'Trading Mindset' thro...
#2 Mental 'Edge' in Trading, with Mark Randall and Steven Goldstein
13 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we jointly explore the subject of 'Mental Edge'. This conversation covers a broad swathe of themes around the subject of...
#1 An Introduction to AlphaMind: The Mental Skills of trading
13 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The first episode of the AlphaMind podcast is co-hosted by Steven Goldstein and Mark Randall. Steven and Mark are market veterans with over 7 decades...