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Talking with Traders

Now into a 10th season, featuring an in-depth insight into Online Trading hosted by Financial Trader, Garth MacKenzie and proudly brought to you by IG, the world leader in online trading. For more info on IG, visit www.ig.com.

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128 Episodes
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S10E10: Thomas Wiesner of Morpher - a new way to trade via tokenisation.

Morpher is a new trading platform that aims to democratise trading by giving users access to fractionalised markets. The platform allows tokenised trading on products ranging from traditional shares and commodities, to exotic things like collectible watches and sports teams. In this interview, I spoke to Thomas Wiesner who is…
9 Apr 40 min

S10E09: Marc Walton: Forex Mentro Pro founder and trader.

Marc Walton has in interesting back story. After running a successful business in the UK, he decided to pack it all in and take his family off to live a sun-drenched life in the Canary Islands and take up trading. He admits it was a mid-life crisis. He began trading…
26 Mar 41 min

S10E08: Cary Artac. WickedStocks.com founder

Cary Artac’s career started at the Chicago Board of Trade in 1986, where he devoted himself to learning the art and science of effective technical analysis, eventually becoming a renowned advisor within Chicago’s greater floor-trading community. His latest venture is WickedStocks.com – a subscriber service that he began with his…
19 Mar 43 min

S10E07: The Wall Street Coach - Kim Ann Curtin

Kim Ann Curtin has been The Wall Street Coach for 18 years. Formerly an executive within a hedge fund, she found her “bliss” in coaching in 2007. During 2008 after the financial crisis, she began coaching traders – many who were in need of some help at the time. She…
12 Mar 44 min

S10E06: Evan Medeiros: Systems trader inspired by the Knights of the Round Table.

Evan Medeiros was a professional poker player while he studied computer science at university. After online gambling became illegal in the US, he turned his poker playing skills over to the stock market. He has since combined his computing expertise and his market knowledge to form three automated trading systems…
5 Mar 42 min

S10E04: Anmol Singh. Former prop firm trader, coach and author.

Anmol Singh began trading at age 18 and went through the usual school of hard knocks that most traders face in their early years. 5 years in a prop firm environment gave him the necessary skills to venture out on his own to trade his own capital. He now runs…
19 Feb 34 min

S10E02: Brian McMillan. Discussing capital guaranteed exposure to Chinese equities

Brian McMillan returns to the podcast for a second time. This time he’s here to discuss an exciting capital guaranteed opportunity from Investec Structured Products. It’s a product that gives geared exposure to the Chinese CSI300 index, whilst guaranteeing an investor’s capital. We discuss the mechanics of the product and…
5 Feb 36 min

S09E11: Best of Talking with Traders 2024

As we wrap up the year, we’ve decided to look back over the interviews of the past year to pull out some of the most memorable clips. It’s a real privilege to be able to interview some great traders and to get their thoughts on record. Certain interviews contained nuggets…
11 Dec 2024 43 min

S09E10: James Eaton: Personal trainer turned full time forex trader.

James Eaton exudes positivity. He has a real “can-do” attitude. It made for a really refreshing, insightful interview. He began his working career as a personal trainer. That allowed him time to learn about trading and he was quickly immersed in it. He’s since taken to trading full time and…
4 Dec 2024 48 min

S09E08: Richard Brennan: Pushing into outliers in the tails of distribution

Riding big trends is the aspiration of many traders, but it’s not easy to do. Trends often try to throw us off them when human emotions get in the way. Richard Brennan has developed an ensemble of strategies that seek to capture big breakouts and trending moves that become outliers…
20 Nov 2024 48 min

S09E07: Laurens Bensdorp: Internationally acclaimed systematic trader.

In this interview, Garth interviews best-selling author and systems trader Laurens Bensdorp. His clinical approach to developing and trading over 50 systems is fascinating. He also shares candid views about trading competitions and trading systems that are freely available for sale on the internet. This is a real, honest interview…
13 Nov 2024 47 min

S09E04: Tom Basso: Mr Serenity. Systematic trader. Market Wizard

Tom Basso was the founder of TrendStat and managed $600 million there before retiring 20 years ago. He featured in Jack Schwager’s book New Market Wizards. He’s authored three books – the most recent of which is All Weather Trader. In this podcast he discusses key elements of his approach…
23 Oct 2024 1 hr 09 min
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