Best Echocast Radio Podcasts (2025)

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Micka on Inflluene - Thato Mokhou 29:00

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18h ago29:00

29:00

In this Episode on MIcka on Influence - I chat to Thato Mokhou, she is the Senior Social Media Strategist for MTN South Africa. We diving into how brands and executives can build influence online—without needing a million followers. How AI is revolutionizing influencer partnerships and content creation, making it more authentic and engaging. Learn …

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Micka on Influence - Murray Legg 21:23

15d ago21:23

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In this conversation, Micka Alexander and Murray Legg explore the dynamic world of influencing media and marketing, particularly focusing on the growth of the creative economy in Africa. They discuss the importance of storytelling, the creator triangle of content, community, and commerce, and the barriers creators face in achieving financial indepe…

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S10E13: James Bruce - Deep honesty about trading with prop firms. 39:04

26d ago39:04

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James Bruce first appeared on Talking with Traders in 2022. Since then, his trading career has grown and so has his family. He became a dad three months ago. In this episode, we talk about how his trading has progressed. He’s very open about a bad month earlier in the year that saw his prop fund capital being withdrawn. He’s now in the process of w…

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S10E12: Colm Murphy - fellow podcast host and buddy trader. 36:58

1M ago36:58

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Colm Murphy hosts the Unpacking the Markets podcast. Garth has featured on his podcast previously, and this time Colm is our featured guest on Talking with Traders. He’s 28 years old, has a full time job in the city of London, and has adapted his style of trading to fit his schedule and his time availability. In this interview, we discuss his appro…

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S10E11: Garth Mackenzie discussing how to navigate the current market volatility. 29:18

2M ago29:18

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In this week’s episode, Garth appears solo as he discusses the recent Trump induced turmoil in the market. He shares a number of charts that illustrate the recent sharp moves in the S&P500, VIX, the dollar and a number of confidence indicators. He then asks: “What next?” and discusses some broad behaviours to keep in mind when managing your portfol…

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S10E10: Thomas Wiesner of Morpher - a new way to trade via tokenisation. 40:13

2M ago40:13

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Morpher is a new trading platform that aims to democratise trading by giving users access to fractionalised markets. The platform allows tokenised trading on products ranging from traditional shares and commodities, to exotic things like collectible watches and sports teams. In this interview, I spoke to Thomas Wiesner who is the CTO at Morpher. We…

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S10E09: Marc Walton: Forex Mentro Pro founder and trader. 41:26

2M ago41:26

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Marc Walton has in interesting back story. After running a successful business in the UK, he decided to pack it all in and take his family off to live a sun-drenched life in the Canary Islands and take up trading. He admits it was a mid-life crisis. He began trading in the early 2000’s and went through the usual booms and busts that most traders go…

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S10E08: Cary Artac. WickedStocks.com founder 43:19

2M ago43:19

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Cary Artac’s career started at the Chicago Board of Trade in 1986, where he devoted himself to learning the art and science of effective technical analysis, eventually becoming a renowned advisor within Chicago’s greater floor-trading community. His latest venture is WickedStocks.com – a subscriber service that he began with his son and daughter. T…

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S10E07: The Wall Street Coach - Kim Ann Curtin 44:49

3M ago44:49

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Kim Ann Curtin has been The Wall Street Coach for 18 years. Formerly an executive within a hedge fund, she found her “bliss” in coaching in 2007. During 2008 after the financial crisis, she began coaching traders – many who were in need of some help at the time. She is now based in Hawaii where she runs her coaching business and hosts her own weekl…

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S10E06: Evan Medeiros: Systems trader inspired by the Knights of the Round Table. 42:19

3M ago42:19

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Evan Medeiros was a professional poker player while he studied computer science at university. After online gambling became illegal in the US, he turned his poker playing skills over to the stock market. He has since combined his computing expertise and his market knowledge to form three automated trading systems with names inspired by the Knights …

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S10E05: Alan Edward, the Divergent Trader, discussing the 3 P’s of successful trading 33:56

3M ago33:56

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Alan Edward returns for a third appearance on Talking with Traders. His insights are always valuable. In this episode we’re discussing the three P’s of successful trading: Process, Purpose and Psychology. Each of these aspects go hand-in-hand to make for successful outcomes as a trader. We also discuss journaling and how it is important to keep the…

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S10E04: Anmol Singh. Former prop firm trader, coach and author. 34:15

3M ago34:15

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Anmol Singh began trading at age 18 and went through the usual school of hard knocks that most traders face in their early years. 5 years in a prop firm environment gave him the necessary skills to venture out on his own to trade his own capital. He now runs a live trading room where he shares his daily trading activity with clients. He also runs c…

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S10E03: Julian Komar: A truly honest account of his 20+ year journey to trading success. 43:00

4M ago43:00

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Julian Komar is based in northern Germany, near Hamburg. I’ve wanted to interview him for a long time and finally he agreed. He did not disappoint. Julian is refreshingly honest about his approach to trading. He’s thorough, detailed and disciplined in his work. In addition to making a success of his own trading, he takes great pleasure in helping o…

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S10E02: Brian McMillan. Discussing capital guaranteed exposure to Chinese equities 36:37

4M ago36:37

36:37

Brian McMillan returns to the podcast for a second time. This time he’s here to discuss an exciting capital guaranteed opportunity from Investec Structured Products. It’s a product that gives geared exposure to the Chinese CSI300 index, whilst guaranteeing an investor’s capital. We discuss the mechanics of the product and the attractiveness of the …

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S10E01: Chris Dover of Macro Ops. Former military man, now a systematic trader. 50:35

4M ago50:35

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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 market…

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S09E11: Best of Talking with Traders 2024 43:32

6M ago43:32

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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 toge…

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S09E10: James Eaton: Personal trainer turned full time forex trader. 48:21

6M ago48:21

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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 interview…

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S09E09: Talking to the Power team of IG’s Premium Client Managers in London 42:28

6M ago42:28

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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 r…

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S09E08: Richard Brennan: Pushing into outliers in the tails of distribution 48:54

6M ago48:54

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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 pl…

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S09E07: Laurens Bensdorp: Internationally acclaimed systematic trader. 47:17

7M ago47:17

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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…

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S09E06: Garth Mackenzie and Gizelle Willows: Equity investing lessons I’ve learned at 45 that I wish I knew at 21. 38:59

7M ago38:59

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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…

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S09E05: Peter Taylor: A former military man turned successful full time trader 43:23

7M ago43:23

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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 care…

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S09E04: Tom Basso: Mr Serenity. Systematic trader. Market Wizard 1:09:58

7M ago1:09:58

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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…

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S09E03: Frank Cappelleri: Sticking to a disciplined approach to investing is key 36:48

8M ago36:48

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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. …

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S09E02: Sean McLaughlin. Chief Options Strategist at All Star Charts 41:43

8M ago41:43

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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 and contains some pearls of wisdom that any aspiring opti…

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S09E01: Jordan Fogel: From DoorDash to trading cash 39:13

8M ago39:13

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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 difficult start to his trading career and admits that impatience to succeed was a…

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S08E12: Patrick Munnelly. Mallorca based trader who has plenty of scars to show 45:22

1y ago45:22

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Patrick Munnelly began his career in executive recruitment. After cashing in his chips in that business, he took up trading for a living. In this podcast he shares his story of a devastating loss in his early trading career, and how he managed to turn his fortunes around with the help of a mentor and therapy. He now views trading as a business and …

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S08E11: Anthony Crudele: Brilliant insights from an S&P500 pit trader. 41:57

1y ago41:57

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Anthony Crudele is a former S&P500 pit trader. He has 25 years of experience in the market, but that experience has come at a price. In his early 30’s Anthony had a heart attack at his trading desk. This lead to a change of trading approach to seek a way of trading that is somewhat less stressful. This conversation is raw and authentic from somebod…

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S08E10: Anthony Clark. Tall trees catch the most wind 54:29

1y ago54:29

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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 excellent views are occasionally the subject of criticism by social media keyboard warriors, …

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S08E09: Ian Coleman: Forex analyst and trader at FX Street 46:21

1y ago46:21

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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 who consume these podcasts via YouTube, you’ll be able to see Ian illustrate a typical…

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S08E08: Charlie Burton: Trading coach and mentor. Episode 100!!! 41:17

1y ago41:17

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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 such as hit rates and risk to reward ratios.…

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S08E07: Bruce Main. Future themes coming back to the fore. 41:07

1y ago41:07

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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, there are massive bases forming in many of those shares and they are…

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S08E06: Brian Feroldi. Common sense checklist for evaluating businesses 53:21

1y ago53:21

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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 a lot of really valuable wisdom offered …

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S08E05: Richard Thomason = Discipline pays in life and investing 36:24

1+ y ago36:24

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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 the level of success he has had managing how own trading capital through an adherence …

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S08E04: Steven Goldstein returns with a new book: Mastering the Mental Game of Trading 50:23

1+ y ago50:23

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Steven Goldstein returns as a guest on Talking with Traders for the third time. This time, he’s here to discuss his new books which is an absolute must-read for all traders: Mastering the Mental Game of Trading. This podcast discusses elements of the book, specifically how to enact the Performance Cycle Process, and also how to close the behavioura…

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S08E03: Jeff Hirsch. Editor in Chief: Stock Trader’s Almanac 37:25

1+ y ago37:25

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The Stock Trader’s Almanac is an annual publication that tracks all sorts of interesting market patterns, seasonality and statistics. It’s been updated and published for 57 years. Jeff Hirsch is the son of founder Yale Hirsch, and has continued the legacy of his father’s work. In this podcast, we discuss some amazing seasonal market patterns – many…

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S08E02: Frank Cappelleri - The market is always right 31:50

1+ y ago31:50

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Frank Cappelleri has over 25 years of experience on Wall Street in various capacities from sales trader to desk strategist. He holds both the CFA and CMT designation, making him adept at both fundamental analysis and technical analysis. In this podcast, Frank talks of some of his experience in the markets over nearly 3 decades, and provides some gu…

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S08E01: ETF Investing and Trading in a world of evolving products 38:30

1+ y ago38:30

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Nerina Visser is a well-known ETF expert in South Africa. In this podcast, we discuss a number of new evolutions in the ETF space, including the recent approval of Bitcoin ETFs by the US Securities and Exchange Commission. We also look at how active ETFs and thematic ETFs can be employed by traders and investors alike. CFD losses can exceed your de…

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S07E12: Sara Jorge - The Perceptive Trader. Coach and FX trader 42:34

1+ y ago42:34

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Sara Jorge is an FX trader and trading coach based in Valencia, Spain. She’s also the author of an E-Book called Building the mind-set of a trader. In this podcast, she discusses her method of trading which is focused in a 3-4 hour window each morning, and also discusses all the periphery work that she does behind the scenes to ensure she operates …

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S07E11: Willie Delwiche of HiMount Research. Talking current market trends as we head towards 2024 34:44

1+ y ago34:44

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In this episode, Willie Delwiche (CFA, CMT) talks about his high level approach to the market. He’s cautious heading into 2024 and explains why. We discuss technical terms such as breadth thrusts and also discuss how he manages risk in a broader context. We end the discussion with a brief chat about his other passion that gets him away from the scr…

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S07E10: David Hale: Author of Cash Rules: Reminiscences of a Day Trader 51:28

1+ y ago51:28

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When it comes to trading books, few will describe the brutal reality of the ups and downs that traders can go through like David Hales’ book, Cash Rules – Reminiscences of a Day Trader. It’s a real life, raw account of his story as a day trader. It details the story of his roller coaster career, and reads as a cautionary tale for those wanting to g…

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S07E09: Craig Antonie: Investing in UNICORNS 48:43

1+ y ago48:43

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Craig Antonie is one of the founders of AnBro Capital Investments and a manager of their Unicorns portfolio. In this podcast, we discuss what a Unicorn is in an investment sense, and how the team at AnBro scans the market for the best companies that meet the definition of a Unicorn. Think Facebook and Tesla. If you could have entered those unicorns…

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S07E08: Justine Brophy discussing a new ETF product focused on Top global brands 32:53

1+ y ago32:53

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Anbro Capital Investors have recently launched a new exchange traded product that focusses on the Top 100 global brands by value. This is an innovative product emanating from South Africa, which is totally new and unique on the global stage. We discuss what brand value is, and how the BRNDZ product tracks the biggest global brands. It’s an interest…

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S07E07: Brian McMillan: Structured Products specialist at Investec Bank 41:13

1+ y ago41:13

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Structured products might not seem like the typical thing to talk about on a trading podcast. But this episode delves into the inner workings of Investec’s latest structured product to understand in the derivatives that go into creating a product with a capital guarantee, and leveraged upside. Brian McMillan has been at the coal face developing the…

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S07E06: Adam Johnson: Bullseye Brief founder, former Bloomberg TV Anchor 44:05

1+ y ago44:05

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Adam Johnson was a familiar face on Bloomberg TV for many years, including through the financial crisis in 2008. He got to rub shoulders with many high profile guests as a result. He has since evolved to running his own weekly newsletter – Bullseye Brief. This newsletter focuses on companies at the cutting edge of American Ingenuity. The newsletter…

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S07E05: Austin Silver: Founding trader and coach at ASFX 43:56

1+ y ago43:56

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Austin Silver has built a solid business trading and coaching others in how to trade. He follows specific rules that define what he looks for in a trade setup. In this podcast, we discuss his rules for trading, and a host of other things that make him tick. This is a fast paced podcast with a lot of info shared. CFD losses can exceed your deposits.…

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S07E04: Viv Govender - Artificial intelligence investor and portfolio manager at Rand Swiss 40:47

1+ y ago40:47

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Viv Govender has a passion for the latest theme of Artificial Intelligence. He runs a managed portfolio for RandSwiss clients that focusses exclusively on this rapidly growing theme. In this podcast, we discuss the recent developments in AI, as well as what the future looks like for this theme. Viv believes it will be as revolutionary for mankind a…

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S07E03: Dylan Bradfield - Detailed description of a successful trading methodology 37:34

1+ y ago37:34

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Dylan Bradfield is pretty vocal on Twitter (X) and shares his trade ideas with his followers regularly. His process for identifying trades is rigorous and very disciplined. In this podcast, Dylan discusses his approach to trading and what criteria he likes to see in place before he executes a trade. It’s a great “how to” guide for the approach he f…

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S07E02: Tom Sosnoff - Founder & CEO: tastylive. 42:58

1+ y ago42:58

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Tom Sosnoff has become the go-to guy when it comes to simplifying options trading. He is the founder of the tastylive channel and the tastytrade trading platform. tastytrade was sold to IG in 2021 for $1 billion. Before that Tom founded Thinkorswim which was sold to TD Ameritrade. He was named EY Entrepreneur of the Year in the US Midwest. In this …

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S07E01: Rob Van Eyden - Author of Badass Trader 44:25

1+ y ago44:25

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Rob van Eyden’s full time job is head of IG South Africa, but outside of that he is also the author of a recently published book called Badass Trader. It’s Rob’s third book and comes after an illustrious career in financial markets. In this podcast, we talk about the book, about trading principles and about what IG Group is doing to promote longevi…