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Talking with Traders

Now into a 9th 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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Weekly English South Africa Investing
117 Episodes
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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 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 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 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 1 hr 09 min

S09E02: Sean McLaughlin. Chief Options Strategist at All Star Charts

With an explosion of interest in options over the past few years, it was a pleasure to talk to somebody who’s passion shines through in the world of options trading. Sean McLaughlin shares his lessons learned in a career spanning 26 years of options trading. This interview is honest, genuine…
9 Oct 41 min

S09E01: Jordan Fogel: From DoorDash to trading cash

Jordan F (as he’s better known) is one of an army of young traders who has taken advantage of the democratisation of trading to make a sustainable living for himself. He’s 23 years old, and makes use of options and futures to leverage the movements in stocks. He had a…
2 Oct 39 min

S08E10: Anthony Clark. Tall trees catch the most wind

Anthony Clark has featured as a guest on each of the 4 years that this podcast has been running. We return to get his insights annually as he is the “tallest tree” or perhaps the “only tree” as an analyst in the small and mid-cap space in South Africa. His…
10 Apr 54 min

S08E09: Ian Coleman: Forex analyst and trader at FX Street

We don’t often cover the world of forex on this podcast, but this week we have Ian Coleman who has been trading forex since he was 18 years old (he’s 54 now). He has many years of forex trading experience that he shares with listeners on this interview. For those…
3 Apr 46 min

S08E08: Charlie Burton: Trading coach and mentor. Episode 100!!!

After trading successfully part time, Charlie Burton broke away from a corporate job in 2001 to start trading for a living. He now runs CharlieBurtonTrading.com – a live trading room and mentorship service that caters to other traders. In this podcast we discuss some of the fundamental aspects of trading…
27 Mar 41 min

S08E07: Bruce Main. Future themes coming back to the fore.

Bruce Main is our go-to guy when it comes to future investment themes. He first alerted listeners to the themes of genomic editing, AI and fintech in 2020. Some of the shares in those industries have been smashed during the high interest rate period of the past two years. However,…
20 Mar 41 min

S08E06: Brian Feroldi. Common sense checklist for evaluating businesses

Brian Feroldi is a master at demystifying finance. He is able to take complex concepts and simplify them into a way that makes sense to non-financial professionals. In this podcast, Brian discussed the framework and check list that he goes through when evaluating businesses. This was a punchy discussion with…
6 Mar 53 min

S08E05: Richard Thomason = Discipline pays in life and investing

Richard Thomason is not like most of the typical guests on this podcast. He’s not a professional in the financial industry. He has a day job at a business in Cape Town, and is likely relatable to many of the listeners to this podcast. But what makes him unique is…
28 Feb 36 min
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