Talking with Traders

Jan 29 2025 118 ep. 43 mins 47

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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. CFD losses can exceed your deposits. IG is an authorised FSP and an over-the-counter derivative provider. #OnlineTrading #Podcast

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S10E01: Chris Dover of Macro Ops. Former military man, now a systematic trader.

Jan 29 2025 50 mins

Chris Dover served in the US Marines early in his career. He got interested in the market in 1999 during the Dot.com boom. He was originally taught systematic trading, but moved away from it for a period for a “hero’s journey”. He ultimately found his way back to systematic trading and is now fully engrossed in it across a range of different markets. This is an honest convers

S09E11: Best of Talking with Traders 2024

Dec 11 2024 43 mins

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 of tremendous insight that warrant repeating. In this episode, we’ve put together 40 minutes of the “be

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

Dec 04 2024 48 mins

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 he goes about it in a very disciplined way. Some interviews just hit the right note. T

S09E09: Talking to the Power team of IG's Premium Client Managers in London

Nov 27 2024 42 mins

This episode is a 4-way conversation with three of IG’s Premium Client Managers in London: Sean Power, Luke Moore and Pete Ward. Collectively, they have worked at IG for over 30 years. We discuss what they see many clients doing wrong that puts them on the losing side of the ledger. We also discuss what IG’s most successful clients are able to do right that makes them consisten

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

Nov 20 2024 48 mins

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 in a dataset. He refers to it as “hunting outliers”. He seeks to play in the edges of a normal

S09E07: Laurens Bensdorp: Internationally acclaimed systematic trader.

Nov 13 2024 47 mins

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 with somebody who has done the hard yards to come u

S09E06: Garth Mackenzie and Gizelle Willows: Equity investing lessons I've learned at 45 that I wish I knew at 21.

Nov 06 2024 38 mins

Garth Mackenzie recently befriended a 21 year old film photographer. A common love of 1990’s Mercedes-Benz cars drew them together. This 21-year-old guy is earning well for his age, but suffers from the common naivety around how to manage money. Now 45, Garth was inspired to write a blog article about investing lessons he wished he knew at 21 years old. This blog article was the

S09E05: Peter Taylor: A former military man turned successful full time trader

Oct 30 2024 43 mins

Every once in a while it is interesting to interview a guest who is not from the financial industry. A former military man - Peter Taylor shares his fascinating story of how circumstances pushed him (willingly) into full time trading. A bit of capital, an accommodating partner and a hunger for knowledge allowed him to begin a full time trading career that has sustained him for the

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

Oct 23 2024 69 mins

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 to trading in retirement, and how he uses systematic trading strategies to allow him lim

S09E03: Frank Cappelleri: Sticking to a disciplined approach to investing is key

Oct 16 2024 36 mins

Frank Cappelleri returns to the podcast for a second appearance. At the start of 2024 he had some much higher targets for the S&P500. Since then the market has rallied over 20% and continues to climb. In this episode we discuss seasonality heading into the US election, and what to do when the market tries to shake you out as it did in August 2024.