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John Bollinger has spent 46 years in markets. Naturally, I expected our conversation to revolve around Bollinger Bands. It did. But that wasn't what stayed with me.

Toby Crabel — founder of Crabel Capital Management (~$5B AUM) and author of the legendary *Day Trading with Short Term Price Patterns and Intraday Breakouts* (1990), the book that gave the world the opening range breakout and NR4/NR7 patterns — joins the show for a rare, wide-ranging conversation. Toby traces his path from a pro…

Trading your own account was never going to replace a salary — the compounding you need gets wiped out by the withdrawals you need to live on. The more commercial option is to trade investor capital, but the options are limited. In this video we get a look inside a trader's journey with Darwinex, quickly…

“Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.” That line, usually pinned to Einstein, fits this article rather well. In trading strategy research, we can spend a long time counting the wrong thing: like, as Martyn Tinsley says - whether the single best in-sample parameter set survives out-of-sample…

“Even if you have skill, you can look wrong for a very long time.” – Cliff Asness A backtest (or even many of them) can tell you whether a strategy survived a historical test. It cannot tell you whether you were testing the right idea, in the right way, for the right purpose. That gap…

What does a quantum physicist & inventor bring to quant trading? He thinks differently and is purposefully anti-alpha - instead focusing on risk management. After years of trying conventional risk models, Samir’s conclusion was not that risk is impossible to model. It was that most people are solving the wrong problem. They try to predict…

Do not watch this podcast. This is Part 1 with Samir Varma, and in Part 2 we go into great detail about his quantitative trading. In the Collective, he gives our members some specific instructions on how to measure risk differently – this stuff isn’t fluff. But in Part 1, I got derailed into quantum…

Crypto might attract the same kind of attention a chainsaw gets at a dinner party, frequently handled by people who should not be touching it. That is exactly why it remains so attractive to systematic traders. The usual retail approach to crypto is painfully predictable: find a coin, fall in love with a narrative, survive…