Episodes

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 shares her journey into trading and how she came to work with traders as a coach. She talks about the classic mistakes and errors she has experienced in her own trading as well as amongst her clients. Also, some of the qualities she has witnesses amongst highly successful tr...

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. Clive is one of the world’s leading Technical Analysts, he has a thorough understanding of the way markets work and how people work with them to achieve success. Clive's analysis can be found in trading rooms across the globe and is used by leading traders from the worlds of commodities, energy, FX, bonds, stock indices and more. Clive is also a ...

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 leading hedge funds and proprietary trading firms. Brett Steenbarger is one of the best minds in the field of trading and investment psychology. There are so many great insights in this episode that you may want to take notes, possibly re-listen and ultimately try to internalise some of the lessons into your own trading behaviours. Dr Steenbarger talks abo...

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 Advisory Committee, Garth Friesen has had a unique journey to the top table of Financial markets. Being a successful trader, Garth shares his insights and perspectives on what it he believes it takes to succeed in the Financial Markets and shares his journey into financial markets. Garth also talks about his book ‘Bite the Ass Off a Bear’, which recoun...

In this episode co-hosts Steven and Mark talk to Futures Trader Adam Nash. Adam has achieved extraordinary success in a trading career lasting almost 3 decades. At one-point Adam was the 3rd largest Euribor trader by volume on the London Futures markets. In this excellent interview Adam discusses his journey from working in a bank middle-office in the 1980s, to becoming a bank trader, to moving to trade futures on the LIFFE ( London International Financial Futures Exchange ) floor, and finally m...

Mark Hutchinson is an outstanding FX Trader who has achieved great success over the past few years. In this excellent interview, Mark shares his journey into trading with AlphaMind co-hosts Steven Goldstein and Mark Randall. Mark talks about the struggle of the early years, the trial and error processes, his dyslexia, and the learning process he went through over 4 ½ years before finally starting to succeed. Mark’s passion for trading shines through in this interview, a passion he has also turne...

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’s Top universities. The students are preparing their applications for US graduate programmes and were keen to explore more about the world of Interest Rate Trading, Originally, we were aiming to record the webinar and release it directly as a podcast. Unfortunately, the sound quality was not strong enough. Instead in this episode, Steven shares his re...

Steven Goldstein, one of the world’s leading trader performance coaches is interviewed by the podcast Co-Host Mark Randall In this podcast Steven shares his journey from his early days Trading Rates and FX in a Japanese banks in London in the mid-80s, to his time working on the proprietary trading desk at Credit Suisse and later Commerzbank and American Express, before opting to start a career as a Performance coach working with Traders and Investment Professionals. Steven shares his philosophy ...

In this episode Steven Goldstein interviews co-host Mark Randall. Mark is a Mindulness practitioner and veteran of the Financial Markets. Mark calls his approach ‘Mindfitness’. He describes it as 'Military Grade' mindfulness, basing it on the same principles of Mindfulness used by the US Special forces to help them be optimum when in training and on active service. Mark is a former Futures and Options broker who use to run Natwest and Greenwich Capital Futures. His broking career lasted more tha...

June 24, 2019 Steven Goldstein & Mark Randall This episode of the AlphaMind podcast jointly explores the subject of 'Trading Mindset' through the lens of Carol Dweck's Growth Mindset philosophy. This conversation covers a broad swathe of themes around the subject of 'Mindset' in trading, including: How 'Growth Mindset' is linked to Success and Positive Psychology. The 2 Mindsets, Growth and Fixed and how they playout in Trading. How Successful traders demonstrate 'Growth Mindset's'. Developing y...

In this episode we jointly explore the subject of ' Mental Edge '. This conversation covers a broad swathe of themes around the subject of 'Mental Edge' in trading, including: Risk Intelligence and how thinking about 'edge' in terms of positive expectancy. Poker, trading and having an 'edge'. Walking away and getting 'closure', as an 'edge'. Resetting and refreshing 'Self'. as an 'edge'. The 'Trading Turtles', and 'Psychological Edge'. Physical aspects of Performance: Sleep, Alcohol, Caffeine. H...

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 of experiences between them: Steven works as a coach helping traders and portfolio managers develop and enhance the 'Inner Game' aspects of risk performance. Before becoming a coach in 2009, Steven worked as a trader in market-making and proprietary trading roles at investment banks such as Credit Suisse, Commerzbank and American Express Bank. Mar...