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The AlphaMind Podcast#141 Mark Randall: Understanding Trading Intelligence: Exploring the Key Intelligences That Drive SuccessIn this episode of our podcast, we delve into the fascinating world of "Intelligence in Trading." Join us as we explore the various forms of intelligence that traders leverage to navigate the complexities of the financial markets. From analytical intelligence, which involves critical thinking and data analysis, to emotional intelligence and elevated levels of self-awareness—essential for managing stress and building key relationships, notably the one you have with yourself and the one you have with the market. We explore how different intelligences play a pivotal role in trading success. Through an insightful discussion with AlphaMind co-host Mar...2025-02-1151 min
The AlphaMind Podcast#140 Steven Goldstein: Developing Yourself as a TraderEveryone wants to achieve as much as possible with minimal effort and pain, often seeking "cheat codes." However, some realize that maximizing rewards requires working smarter and acknowledging that risk-taking involves discomfort. These individuals embrace, manage, and learn from risks rather than looking for shortcuts, making them more likely to succeed.When I started trading, I, too, wanted to gain without experiencing pain. Over the years and through many challenges, I learned that true success lies in engaging with the discomfort that comes from taking risks.Success in trading extends beyond analysis, systems, and methods...2025-01-2041 min
The AlphaMind Podcast#133: The Power of Performance Coaching for Traders with Kim Ann Curtin (AKA The Wall Street Coach)Join us for an enlightening episode of the AlphaMind Podcast, where we delve into the transformative world of performance coaching for traders. Hosted by AlphaMind's own Randall and Steven Goldstein, this engaging discussion features Kim Ann Curtin, famously known as The Wall Street Coach. In this dynamic conversation, we explore how performance coaching serves as a vital catalyst for traders, empowering them to unlock substantial improvements in their trading performance. Kim-Ann shares with us the critical role of coaching in enhancing self-awareness and facilitating personal discovery, helping traders achieve their fullest potential while navigating the c...2024-08-141h 07
The AlphaMind Podcast#132: Unveiling the Power of Systems Thinking in Trading: A Dive into Interconnectedness and ComplexityIn this unique episode, the AlphaMind Podcast explores a new theme with a deep dive into Systems Thinking.Join hosts Mark Randall and Steven Goldstein as they embark on a dialogue discussing the relevance of systems thinking in trading and market navigation. Drawing from their experiences and insights from Peter Senge's influential work, "The Fifth Discipline," they emphasize the significance of systems thinking in fostering a culture of learning.The discussion also delves into the "Beer Game simulation," introduced by Senge, shedding light on the complexities of systems and how a systemic thinking approach enhances...2024-07-1644 min
The AlphaMind Podcast#126 Steve Miley: Technical Trading, Joining a Prop Firm, Achieving Prop SuccessSteve Miley has a lifetime of experience in trading. He’s been a trader, an analyst and a mentor. He’s worked at some of the world’s leading trading firms, including investment banking giants Merrill Lynch and Credit Suisse, having originally worked on the LIFFE trading exchange in the times of open outcry floor trading. Steve is still active in all these fields, and now is involved with one of the new breed of Online Prop Trading firms called Tradeday, where prospective traders have to pass an exam prior to being giving a small sum of capital...2024-04-0457 min
The AlphaMind Podcast#123 Steven Goldstein: New Book - Mastering the Mental Game of TradingAlphaMind Podcast co-host Mark Randall engages in a dynamic interview with fellow co-host Steven Goldstein about his new book, "Mastering the Mental Game of Trading."This groundbreaking book has been making waves in the trading world, and Mark is on a mission to uncover the essence of its revolutionary concepts.Mark peppers Steven with insightful questions, extracting profound insights about the book's core concepts and its overarching purpose.Steven, in turn, takes listeners on an immersive journey through the pages of "Mastering the Mental Game of Trading," sharing invaluable thoughts and perspectives on...2024-01-3146 min
The AlphaMind Podcast#122 Mark Randall: Setting your Trading Edge for 2024AlphaMind Podcast co-host Mark Randall reflects on insights gained from our podcast guests that he considers vital for traders as they look forward to 2024. With an illustrious career spanning over four decades in the financial markets, Mark initiated his journey as one of the pioneering traders on the LIFFE London Futures Exchange. Over time, he transitioned into pivotal roles, spearheading broking and sales divisions at major investment banks, lending him a wealth of experience and expertise in the field.Mark's reflections on our podcast discussions shed light on indispensable lessons for traders as t...2024-01-1054 min
The AlphaMind Podcast#113 What The Market Needs From You, So It Can Win, and How You Can Fight BackIn this captivating podcast episode, Co-host Steven Goldstein delves into the intriguing world of trading and markets, offering insightful thoughts and reflections. Drawing from his extensive experience spanning nearly four decades, Steven explores what the markets truly need from you as a trader in order for it to emerge victorious, at the expense of you the trader.Prepare to embark on a journey deep into the intricacies of the 'Inner Game' of trading. Steven's wealth of knowledge and expertise, acquired through his roles as a trader at the forefront of markets and as a performance coach working...2023-07-1140 min
The AlphaMind Podcast#108 Cory Mitchell: Trading, The Intuitive GameIn this episode, we chat with Cory Mitchell, who has been a successful prop trader for some twenty years. Cory shares his reflections on the development of what it takes to deliver consistent and profitable trading results over a long period of time, and he offers some invaluable thoughts on trading and dealing with the challenges of making decisions in the moment and coping with those voices in our heads that can hold us back. Cory started trading with a local prop firm in Canada, after graduating college two decades ago. Helping to pave the way for o...2023-03-281h 20
The AlphaMind Podcast#106 Simon Mundie: Developing Psychological FlexibilityThe world of sports and high-performance offer so many great metaphors and analogies for trading, where the mind, and the noises in our head, can become the blocker to the potential people possess. In this episode we talk with Simon Mundie, a leading sports journalist, radio and tv broadcaster, author, and coach. Simon hosted a superb podcast featured on the BBC, which looks at the lessons people can learn from the world of sports and high performance. On the podcast, Simon has interviewed top athletes, tennis greats, Olympic champions, coaches, and outstanding performers from across the world o...2023-02-211h 07
The AlphaMind Podcast#105 Jacob Holm: The Evolution of a TraderJacob is a young trader from Denmark who is still going through the relative early stages of his trading career. As you will hear in this interview, Jacob has a wise head on young shoulders. Jacob discovered a passion for investing, then trading, in his mid-teens. He has since dived into trading with gusto learning the basics of trading, developing his trading skills, learning technical analysis, developing systematic trading capabilities, reading influential writers on trading, in particular the works of Mark Douglas. In addition, he worked on developing himself, learning and applying stoic attitudes, and ga...2023-02-071h 03
The AlphaMind Podcast#104 Jonathan Baird: Macro Fundamentals and TradingWe're delighted to welcome back a friend of the show Jonathan Baird, an award-winning money manager and publisher of the Global Investment Letter, who speaks and writes about macro themes in markets based on this his many decades of experience in this area. 2022 was the year when having a handle on the macro-economic narrative was to prove hugely advantageous. Understanding the macro and building it into your read of the markets is vital for traders who wish to gain an edge in markets whilst seeking to insulate themselves from market shocks. In this episode we ta...2023-01-241h 08
The AlphaMind Podcast#103 Mark & Steve: Working With Your Ego in TradingTrading legend Marty Schwartz aka Pitbull said, "the most important change in my trading career occurred when I learned to divorce my ego from the trade."The ego gets a bad wrap in trading, and often seen as the enemy. But is this the right way to look at it? The ego is very much part of us, part of who we are, part of our nature, our soul. How can it be the enemy? That makes us the enemy. And yet, often it feels like it is, with its ability to act in ways wh...2023-01-1054 min
The AlphaMind Podcast#102 Matt 'PAX' Kenah: A Futures Trader's Story - Part 2In this 2nd part of this outstanding chat with former Chicago pit trader Matt ‘Pax’ Kenah. Matt takes us to a deeper exploration of his story. We discuss Matt's personal battles, hiss loss caused by the collapse of MF global, the struggles with his self which followed this, and the rebuilding of his career. We look at the steps Matt took, and the foundation blocks he built to come back and build a trading career for a second time around. Matt talks about the support of his wife, his religious faith, his faith in God, and...2022-12-1347 min
The AlphaMind Podcast#101 Matt 'PAX' Kenah: A Futures Trader's Story - Part 1Matt “Pax” Kenah: The Life of a Futures Trader – Part 1Matt “Pax” Kenah is a passionate, straight shooting, former Chicago Floor Trader who still trades and now also mentor traders. In this fascinating interview ,he shares his story, his journey and experiences, his success and mistakes, his highs and lows.Matt opens up fully about the realities of trading, the emotional challenges, the steps he, and others, what he considers trading success to be, and what people need to do to get there.This is a fascinating interview that goes to places, few interviews...2022-11-3044 min
The AlphaMind Podcast#100 Jeff Boccaccio: From IT Consultant to Trader and System BuilderIn this episode, we talk in-depth with Jeff Boccaccio about his journey from the non-trading world, to the world of trading his own money. Jeff was initially was an IT consultant.This a conversation which covers from a wide and varied range which will be hugely valuable and hopefully inspiring, to traders of all types. Jeff also shares valuable insights and advice about trading, the reality of how long it takes to learn and develop the skills to become a successful trade, and about the emotional challenges of trading and investing. In addition...2022-11-161h 34
The AlphaMind Podcast#99 Sven Fuhrmann: Energy/Power Trader and Hedge Fund ManagerSven Fuhrman: Hedge Fund Manager and Energy TraderThe dramatic context of the past couple of years, and the consequences of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, have awoken many traders and investors to the significance and importance of the Power and Energy Markets. This corner of the international markets remains relatively obscure and poorly understood, despite them playing a far more tangible and significant role in all our lives, than virtually any other market.On this week’s AlphaMind podcast, we talk with a trader who has been at the centre of th...2022-10-2457 min
The AlphaMind Podcast#98 Tom Basso: Market Wizard's Mr SerenityTom Basso: Market Wizards Mr SerenityTom Basso first came to prominence when he was featured in Jack Schwager’s second Market Wizards book “New Market Wizards”. His chapter is called Mr Serenity. In the introduction to the interview with Tom, Jack, made a point of saying, that “although Tom’s results are significantly better than the industry average, they were ‘hardly extraordinary’. And yet, ‘Jack says, “in an important sense, Basso is perhaps the most successful, trader I have ever interviewed.” This success Jack Schwager referred to, stemmed from Tom’s ability to make money, and yet remain...2022-10-031h 19
The AlphaMind Podcast#97 Jason Shapiro: 'The Contrarian' Answers Listeners QuestionsJason Shapiro returns to the AlphaMind podcast a year after his first episode proved to be one of our most popular to date. Jason featured in Jack Schwager’s brilliant ‘Unknown Market Wizard’ where he was known as ‘The Contrarian’, which tells all you need to know about his approach and style. In this episode, Jason answers a series of questions submitted by AlphaMind Podcast listeners, and expands upon his trading approach, his views about trading and markets, and shares more details of how he uses the ‘Commitment of Traders’ report. Though Jason’s approach is firmly welded t...2022-09-141h 18
The AlphaMind Podcast#96 Tom Hougaard: Best Loser WinsTom Hougaard is a ‘high-stakes’ day trader, and author of a superb new book ‘Best Loser Wins: Why Normal Thinking Never Wins the Trading Game’, which focuses on the mental battle needed to succeed in trading and the challenge of getting your mind right. Tom is someone who has faced his own battles to become a successful trader, and like many he has gone through that cycle of try, learn, fail, try again and eventually succeed. Tom is passionate about trading, as you will hear, and also loves helping others to learn. He runs an excellent...2022-08-301h 17
The AlphaMind Podcast#94 Steven Goldstein: 35 Years of Trading Lessons LearnedTrading is a job which tests everyone who participates in it to the max. Volatile markets, rapidly shifting trading environments, strong bull markets followed by violent bear markets, fortunes made over years then lost in hours. The markets toy with traders’ emotions and their sense of self-worth, as they come to terms with just how much skill and ability is needed to succeed over the long-term in a challenge that people vastly underestimate. In this episode AlphaMind co-host Mark Randall interviews fellow co-host Steven Goldstein about the lessons he has learned in over 35 years in Financial Markets, wor...2022-07-181h 24
The AlphaMind Podcast#93 Ben Aldridge: Becoming Comfortable Being UncomfortableWhat makes you feel uncomfortable? How do you cope with difficult situations which make you feel uncomfortable? Do you shy away from these situations or avoid making tough decisions because of your discomfort? Has it held you back in your trading, in life, and does it continue to hold you back? Being able to cope with anxiety inducing situations that make us feel uncomfortable lies at the very epicentre of many of the biggest challenges in life. Whether taking high stakes trading and investment decisions in volatile markets, to leading and managing teams and businesses, working in sa...2022-07-061h 00
The AlphaMind Podcast#91 Oliver Kell - US Trading Champion 2020: The Journey to Trading MasteryOIiver Kell won the 2020 US stock trading champion with an astonishing return of 941%, almost double the return of the second-place competitor. However, there is a lot more to Oliver than just great trading, his success is born of a deep humility and a huge respect for risk and the market. And as you listen to him, you may be surprised to notice how his process and success is built upon a foundation of high-risk aversion allied to a deep passion for what he does.In this episode Oliver opens about his trading, his background and what he...2022-05-291h 10
The AlphaMind Podcast#89 Garth Mackenzie - What Drives Trading Success?In this episode, we discuss with Garth Mackenzie, what he feels drives trading success, what drives his trading success, and what is it about his approach which has contributed to his success thus far.Garth has been trading for over 20 years, however Garth admits the journey was anything but smooth, and despite some early successes, he found that the market was as adept in taking away, as it was in giving. In the years since his early trading days, Garth has gone on to build a thriving trading practice, putting both his own money and i...2022-04-231h 04