Episodes
#35 David Tait - Ex-Head of FX Trading at Goldman Sachs: Life & Trading Can't Be Separated
March 3, 2020
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 in the financial markets. David success led to him becoming Global Head of …
#34 Nick Leeson - Rogue Trader: In His Own Words
Feb. 24, 2020
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, Nick Leeson. Working from their Singapore office, Lesson’s accumulated t…
#33 Anthony Crudele - Successful Trading whilst Managing Stress
Feb. 18, 2020
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 CME, originally trading the S&P e-mini futures. Anthony was surrounded by…
#32 Dr Daniel Crosby - Your Brain is Not Designed to Trade or Invest
Feb. 11, 2020
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 make positive adjustments which can drive superior trading and investment perfo…
#31 Paul Wallace - From Air Force Fighter Controller to Trader
Feb. 4, 2020
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 attracted to internet stocks in the early 2000s. Prior to that Paul was a fighter c…
#30 David Keller CMT - From Music & Psychology to Investing, Technical Analysis & Behavioural Finance
Jan. 28, 2020
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 in wisdom, rich in depth, and rich in meaningful dialogue and discussion. David is som…
#29 Simon Garcia - The Mental Battle ‘is the Battle’
Jan. 21, 2020
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 guest Simon Garcia bares his soul, describes his experience, and shares h…
#28 Jim Simons - The Man Who Solved The Markets – With Greg Zuckerman
Jan. 14, 2020
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 which employs some of the world’s most brilliant mathematical geniuses. T…
#27 How to Be Better as Traders
Jan. 7, 2020
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, more successful as Traders and Investment Professionals in 2020. Mark and …
#26 Chris Cain - The Alpha Formula: High Powered Strategies to Beat The Market With Less Risk.
Dec. 10, 2019
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 outstanding performance in a very short space of time. Chris is also co-author of…
#25 Beat Nussbaumer - 35 years as an Investment Bank FX Trader
Dec. 3, 2019
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 Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, and Commerzbank as a market-maker, proprietary tra…
#24 Nick Smith - The Crossover of Sports Betting & Financial Market Trading
Nov. 25, 2019
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 comparison between trading and sports-betting. Nick sees sports-betting as still …
#23 The Trauma of Trading
Nov. 16, 2019
This episode was sparked by an overwhelming response to a tweet posted this week by podcast host Steven Goldstein on the AlphaMind twitter handle https://twitter.com/AlphaMind101. The Tweet: _________________________________…
#22 New York Yankees Performance Coach Dana Cavalea - Habits of a Champion
Nov. 9, 2019
Dana Cavalea was Strength, Conditioning and Performance Coach for the New York Yankees when they won the world series in 2009. Today he coaches leaders, executives, traders and investors in how to be in peak physical and men…
#21 Benis Kumar - Behavioural Finance and Trading Biases
Nov. 2, 2019
Benis is a partner and behavioural scientist with 'Final Mile', the world’s leading Behavioural Architecture Consultancy. Behavioural Architecture seeks to solve complex issues and problems where conventional approaches fall…
#20 Carol Harmer - Technical Trading & Technical Analysis
Oct. 26, 2019
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 on the LIFFE (London International Financial Futures Exchange) in London. S…
#19 James Brodie – Trading, Markets, Behavioural Finance, System & Algo Building
Oct. 19, 2019
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, started his own hedge fund, built trading systems, taught people and edu…
#18 Greg Gossett - 24 Years as a Retail Trader
Oct. 12, 2019
In this episode of the AlphaMind podcast we interview veteran retail trader Greg Gossett. Greg is well into his third decade of retail trading, proving that it can be done, and can be done well. In this excellent interview G…
#17 JJ@vwaptrader1 - Interview Part 2: Getting to the Soul of the Retail Trader
Oct. 5, 2019
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 shared stories of his time as a Penny Stocks MarketMaker in a world immortalised…
#16 JJ vwaptrader1- Part 1: Wolf of Wall Street meets Retail Trading
Sept. 28, 2019
Former Penny Stocks Market-Maker, turned Retail Trader, Trader Educator and host of the superb ‘Confessions of a Market-Maker’ podcast JJ aka 'vwaptrader1' talks to Steven and Mark about his colourful career, his time as a s…
#15 Chris Tate - Top Aussie Trader bringing the best of your ‘Self’ to the Trading Game
Sept. 21, 2019
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 Financial Markets. Chris now works with some colleague in a business called ‘the T…
#14 Merritt Black discusses the harsh realities traders must embrace to help develop the consistency needed to succeed
Sept. 7, 2019
Merritt Black is Head of Proprietary Trading at US firm SMB futures. In this deep and very poignant interview, Merritt shares his reflections and thoughts on a wide array of themes and aspects about the realities of trading …
#13 Great Learnings from Master of the Markets: Musings on Our Recent Interviews
Aug. 31, 2019
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 develop and cultivate mindsets for success in their work as traders and i…
#12 Mandi Pour Rafsenjani: Developing Traders from the Inside Out & Women in Trading
Aug. 24, 2019
Mandi is a Trader and Coach from Australia; she works with new and experienced traders helping them develop the inner mindset skills to achieve success and to progress to higher levels of performance. In this interview Mandi…