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Trader ChatsBreaking Down Option Flows with the Vanna-Charmer*Breaking Down Option Flows with the Vanna-Charmer*
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2023-12-021h 06Trader ChatsCorrelation vs Causation with Weston NakamuraCorrelation vs Causation with Weston Nakamura
Trader Chats | October 13th, 2023
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2023-10-1554 minTrader ChatsBuilding Tools for the Modern Investor with Tian YangBuilding Tools for the Modern Investor with Tian Yang
Trader Chats | September 21st, 2023
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2023-09-2440 minTrader ChatsPro Trader Tommy Thornton Shares His Market Wisdom | Trader Chats | Professional Trader InterviewPro Trader Tommy Thornton Shares His Market Wisdom | Professional Trader Interview
Trader Chats | June 30, 2023
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2023-07-0348 minTrader ChatsTrading Sentiment with Jared DillianTrading Sentiment with Jared Dillian
Trader Chats | May 26, 2023
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Trader Chats returns with another very special guest, Jared Dillian.
Jared is a highly respected trader that relies on sentiment to dictate his trading decisions. But much...
2023-05-2628 minTrader ChatsThe Art of Trading with Brent Donnelly | Trader ChatsThe Art of Trading with Brent Donnelly Trader Chats | April 13, 2023
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Trader Chats returns with a very special guest, Brent Donnelly.
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2023-04-1353 minTrader ChatsQ4 Roundtable | The Year of Pain: Melt Up or Melt Down to End 2022?After an incredible Q3 Roundtable that warned the bottom was not in yet, the Macro Avengers are back! Special guests Darius Dale (42Macro), Tony Greer (TGMacro), and Brent Kochuba (Spotgamma) join Imran Lakha, founder of Options Insight, for another special edition of Trader Chats for our Q4 Roundtable discussion.
The topic of the day….will 2022 end with a melt up or melt down?
Core topics discussed include:
• Current rate hikes priced into the market and what they mean for stocks.
• Is Fed pause or pivot in sight? • How high c...
2022-10-271h 17Trader ChatsQ3 ROUNDTABLE - Is The Bottom In Yet?After an incredible Q2 Roundtable that sounded the alarm on risk assets back in April, we are back with a star studded line up.
Special guests Darius Dale (42Macro), Brent Kochube (Spotgamma), Tony Greer (TGMacro) and Andres Steno Larsen (RVDB and Blockworks Macro Trading Floor) join Imran Lakha, founder of Options Insight, for another special edition Q3 Roundtable discussion.
The topic of the day….is the bottom in yet?
Core topics discussed include:-
Recent market reaction to the removal of FED forward guidance and data...
2022-08-051h 12Trader ChatsEp 5. Respect the TapeIn this episode Imran Lakha, founder of Options Insight, talks to Tony Greer, founder of TGMacro.
Tony is a 30-year veteran of the financial markets with a career focussed on the commodity sector. After a successful career working at some high profile institutions including Goldman Sachs, Tony now runs his own research company where he writes the well respected daily newsletter “The Morning Navigator” which helps his clients steer safely through various macro markets.
Having been a big advocate of the long commodity trade, especially energy, they discuss Tony’s approach to markets, from observing daily p...
2022-06-1746 minTrader ChatsEp 4. Trading Single Stock VolatilityIn this episode Imran Lakha, founder of OPTIONS INSIGHT, talks to Simon Harris, a veteran single stock options trader with many years in institutional trading experience.
Simon has worked for some of the leading institutions in the world of investment banking such as Credit Suisse, Citibank and Nomura. Having run single stock options desks at this elite level, Simon is acutely aware of the risks and opportunities that lurk in the equity derivatives space.
In this conversation they discuss how Simon thinks about idea generation and his thoughts on how the landscape has changed since the meme stock craze of buy...
2022-05-2738 minTrader ChatsQ2 ROUNDTABLE - Macro Risks, Signals to Watch & How to HedgeSpecial guests Darius Dale (42Macro), Brent Kochuba (Spotgamma) and Alf Peccatiello (Macro Compass) join Imran Lakha, founder of Options Insight, for this special edition Q2 Roundtable discussion.
With so many macro headwinds facing markets after a difficult and volatile Q1 2022, we thought people needed guidance on how to navigate into the months ahead. So, we brought in the big guns! These guests are all experts in their field and have built up their knowledge and experience in markets over decades.
The core topics that were discussed include:-
Macro risks going into Q2 a...
2022-04-011h 29Trader ChatsEp 3. Bond Markets -Signal or Noise?In this episode Imran Lakha, founder of Options insight, talks to Hussein Nasser, an ex-bank bond and credit trader with 20 years in the industry.
They discuss Hussein’s background in markets and all the products that he has been exposed to in his impressive career. Imran quizzes him on whether bond traders really have a better handle on the economy than stock investors and how much signal remains in markets prices after the introduction of QE and the distortions that creates in both treasuries and credit markets.
Hussein gives a quick explanation of how the re...
2022-03-1851 minTrader ChatsEp 2. Tracking Bitcoin Cycles
In this episode Imran Lakha, founder of Options Insight, talks to Kuda Chinhara, an experienced options trader and technical analysis expert.
Since last speaking to Kuda about his approach to reading the charts through analysing cycles, identifying market regimes and then using Fibonacci confluence to find inflection levels, Kuda has been looking more closely at the price history of Bitcoin.
They discuss the spectral analysis that Kuda uses to try to find dominant cycles in the momentum oscillator of the Bitcoin time series. This quantitative approach, whilst not necessarily statistically significant due to the small sample size (only 12 years of hi...
2022-02-0433 minTrader ChatsEp 1. Heavyweight Macro TradingIn the episode Imran Lakha, founder of Options Insight, talks to Shrenick Shah, a head macro portfolio manager at a major asset management firm.
They met at LSE university, more than 20 years ago, and both began their career in equity derivatives at top tier investment banks.
Since then, Shrenick has moved on to the buy side, where he leads a team of macro PMs. They discuss Shrenick’s macro framework, key drivers such as growth, inflation, sentiment and liquidity. They also explore the idea of trading across multiple durations and the way to diversify or hedg...
2022-01-1442 minTrader ChatsEp 8. Traders Who TeachIn this episode Imran Lakha, founder of OPTIONS INSIGHT, talks to Debodun Osekita, founder of Stock Pickers Academy.
“Debs” has been a trader for 12 years and has worked for investment banks such as Goldman Sachs and Barclays Capital. He now runs a trading and investing educational service to help members of his community learn how to invest for the long term using techniques that he has learned over his successful career.
In this conversation, the two trading mentors discuss what drives their passion for teaching and how building communities actual benefits them and helps them grow as traders and inv...
2021-11-2642 minTrader ChatsEp 7. Quant Driven Asset AllocationIn this episode Imran Lakha, founder of Options Insight, talks to Darius Dale, founder of 42 Macro.
Darius started his career at Hedgeye Risk Management, conducting macro research by building quantitative models based around identifying the growth and inflation regimes of global markets.
Using this approach and backtesting cross-asset returns against the 4 regimes (the GRIDs), he helps investors navigate the market with robust portfolio construction and risk management. Being data driven and multi-factor, allows him make investment decisions without bias and be honest about what the market is telling him. They use the analogy of needing bo...
2021-11-1242 minTrader ChatsEp. 6 The Importance of PositioningIn this episode Imran Lakha, founder of OPTIONS INSIGHT, talks to Brent Kochuba, founder of Spotgamma.
Brent has been an options trader for many years working on both the sell-side as a market-maker and on the buy-side for a family office. He setup Spotgamma two years ago to provide data on options market positioning in equity markets and his models have become an almost must have for derivatives traders in the industry.
In this conversation, they discuss why positioning matters so much for trying to predict short term moves in markets and how these can be amplified when opti...
2021-10-2940 minTrader ChatsEp 5. From Banking to De-Fi
In this episode Imran Lakha, founder of Options Insight, talks to Anders Armelius, an ex-bank equity derivatives strategist.
After spending a large part of his career working in traditional finance, Anders has now thrown himself into the world of De-fi.
They discuss what De-fi means and how this new growing industry may disrupt the traditional banking system.
Anders explains how he screens the large universe of De-fi tokens for excess yield and incentives that sometimes only last for a few months, effectively arbitraging protocols desperation to attract capital.
They discuss the risks involved in investing or trading in this space and...
2021-10-1549 minTrader ChatsEp 4. Why Leave Banking?In this episode Imran Lakha, founder of Options Insight, talks to Anh Nguyen, an independent prop trader and ex-Citibank EM derivatives flow trader.
They discuss how they met at Citibank in 2013, half way through Anh’s career and how his interest in proprietary trading was peaked.
Delving into the different skills required to be a successful flow or prop trader and how the role changed after regulation from the 2008 financial crisis. They talk about the technical and psychological aspects of trading and how dropping the ego was what allowed Anh to grow into a successful trader.
Anh gives his reasons for ch...
2021-10-0429 minTrader ChatsEp 1. Bursting the AMC BubbleIn this episode Imran Lakha, founder of Options Insight, talks to Ben Weinbroer, a long/short equity hedge fund manager at Steelyard Capital.
They discuss how Ben has been using the extreme rallies in meme stocks such as AMC to build concentrated short positions in stocks where he believes there a massive mis-pricing and highly inflated valuations.
Ben believes that having shorts in the portfolio in names such as AMC, Robinhood or Tesla can help insulate a portfolio from drawdowns in the market as these highly valued stocks should be punished more than the broader indices.
Obviously, this pos...
2021-09-1731 minTrader ChatsEp 2. The Wisdom of ChartsIn this episode Imran Lakha, founder of Options Insight, talks to Kuda Chinhara, an experienced options trader and technical analysis expert.
They discuss when Kuda started trading at Goldmans in 2005 and how he got into charting and technical analysis.
Kuda explains why he finds charts so informative and how he is able to gain insights from analysing rich data sets going back decades and identifying repeating patterns in the time series data on stock markets.
Outside of the longer term cycles that form from central bank and government policy actions, Kuda, says that he doesn’t look at any fundamental news...
2021-09-1736 minTrader ChatsEp 3. Can Trading Skills Save Lives?In this episode Imran Lakha, founder of Options Insight, talks to his friend an experienced hedge fund trader named Shabs about an episode in his personal life where his trading background helped him cope under extreme pressure.
In early 2011, Shabs’s father was taken into a hospital in India and put on life support due to a serious respiratory condition. In this discussion he talks us through how he was able to maintain clarity of thought, despite the extreme emotions at play, by having a decision making process based on quantifiable data markers. This process allowed him an...
2021-09-1712 min