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Episodes

Oct. 6, 2020

#55 Dr Tara Swart; Talks about 'Brain Agility' and being 'The Wendy Rhodes of London'

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 to set-up her own Neuroscience based leadership coaching consultancy and be…
Sept. 20, 2020

#54 Psychology, Mindset & Ego: AlphaMind interviewed by Tradeciety

This weeks guest was 'us'. In this episode Ralf and Moritz of the Tradeciety interviewed AlphaMind Podcast hosts Steve and Mark about their work helping traders to become more effective by tackling the psychological, mental …
Sept. 8, 2020

#53 Morgan Housel - The Psychology of Money

'The Psychology of Money' is a new book written by former Motley Fool and Wall Street Journal finance columnist Morgan Housel. The book has been called " one of the best and most original finance books in years. " by the Wal…
Aug. 25, 2020

#52 Beyond Technical Analysis with Robin Bieber

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 leading technical analysts in the trading industry. There are few better qua…
Aug. 12, 2020

#51 Steve Ward - Bullet Proof Trader

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 financial markets. When these shots hit us, they disrupt our thinking, corrupt our…
July 28, 2020

#50 John Locke: SMB Capital Options Trader on Developing a Mindset for Trading Success

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 having previously worked as a ‘Success Coach’. As well as working as a trad…
July 14, 2020

#49 The Risk Personality Episode with Geoff Trickey

Geoff Trickey is one of the world’s leading experts on Risk Personality. Geoff says that ‘personality writes your biography’ and believes that knowing and understanding your risk personality, can provide an enormous edge in …
July 7, 2020

#48 Flash Crash - Liam Vaughan on Navinder Sarao and the 2010 Flash Crash

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 govt investigation and a multimillion-dollar manhunt , and all from his ups…
June 23, 2020

#47 Damian Hughes - The Winning Mindset

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 winning mindset? Having a robust system or method for finding value, an app…
June 9, 2020

#46 Brian Pezim - Swing Trading and Trading Psychology

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 of ‘How To Swing Trade: A Beginner’s Guide to Trading Tools, Money Manage…
June 4, 2020

#45 Dr Gary Klein - Decision Making Under Conditions of Uncertainty

The very essence of the challenge of trading and investing is making great decisions, under time pressured situations, when faced with extreme uncertainty. The very essence of the challenge of trading and investing is making…
May 27, 2020

#44 Steven Goldstein's Golden Trading Guidelines

AlphaMind podcast host Steven Goldstein worked for almost 25 years as a professional trader at Investment Banks in both Market-Making and Proprietary Trading roles. In his battle to succeed, Steven was always looking to impr…
May 12, 2020

#43 Paul Gordon – Discusses Bitcoin for the Crypto-Curious

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 are fascinated by all things crypto, and in between is everyone else, by vary…
April 29, 2020

#42 Dr Brian Keating - How Evidence Sometimes Loses Out to Emotion

This week’s guest is Dr Brian Keating, Distinguished Professor of Physics at the University of California, San Diego. In this podcast, we interview Dr Keating about some of the connections which bind trading, investing and s…
April 21, 2020

#41 Andrew Aziz - Founder of BearBullTraders: The Mind is in The Process

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 Living: Tools, Tactics, Money Management, Discipline and Trading Psychology’. An…
April 15, 2020

#40 Performance Based 'Mindfulness for Traders', with Mark Randall

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 of Performance-Based Mindfulness. He works primarily with corporates, includi…
April 8, 2020

#39 Leading traders reflect on trading through the Coronavirus Crisis

The last few weeks have seen traumatic times in the financial markets. Trading conditions in all markets have seen unparalleled volatility and liquidity levels in excess of the worst of 2008 and which few have ever experienc…
March 31, 2020

#38 Denise Shull - Performance Coach to Trading & Investment Professionals

Denise Shull is one of the world’s leading performance coaches. As well as being a former trader herself, Denise focuses on the positive contribution feelings and emotion makes in high-pressure decision-making situations. De…
March 24, 2020

#37 Jon Macaskill US Navy Seal Commander - The Power of Mindfulness & Meditation

Mindfulness and meditation can be enormously powerful when engaged in financial markets. These practices have the ability to weaponize the mind for optimal performance whilst creating a robust and resilient suit of armour ag…
March 16, 2020

#36 David Tait - Ex-Head of FX Trading at Goldman Sachs: Coping with Extreme Fear

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 terrain of trading. When it comes to fear, and fear in trading, there are few…
March 3, 2020

#35 David Tait - Ex-Head of FX Trading at Goldman Sachs: Life & Trading Can't Be Separated

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 …
Feb. 24, 2020

#34 Nick Leeson - Rogue Trader: In His Own Words

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…
Feb. 18, 2020

#33 Anthony Crudele - Successful Trading whilst Managing Stress

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…
Feb. 11, 2020

#32 Dr Daniel Crosby - Your Brain is Not Designed to Trade or Invest

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…