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Today’s guest is Fernando Chague, a financial academic based out of Sao Paulo. Fernando is best known for authoring a study called Day Trading for a Living? in 2019. The study reviewed the day trading activity of thousands of Brazilian futures traders and found that a very small portion of them reached consistent profitability. Even […]

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Today’s guest is Pratik Chougule, a political consultant, prediction markets better, and co-host of the excellent prediction markets podcast Star Spangled Gamblers. Pratik has a focus on US politics and uses a mix of qualitative and quantitative insights to find profitable trade opportunities. Perhaps Pratik’s bread and butter is when partisans come into the market […]

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Today’s episode is an interview with Chris DeMuth Jr, a partner at New Canaan, CT hedge fund Rangeley Capital where he focuses on value-oriented strategies with a penchant for event-driven trading. I’ve followed Chris’ research for years. He’s one of the most interesting people publishing trade ideas and analysis, and he always has skin in […]

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This is an interview with Chris DeMuth Jr. of hedge fund Rangeley Capital from March 2020, the peak of coronavirus market panic. Chris is a partner at New Canaan, CT hedge fund Rangeley Capital, where he primarily invests in event-driven, value-oriented opportunities. He also hosts a SeekingAlpha Marketplace community called Sifting the World, where he publishes […]

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This is an interview from October 2019 with former prop trader Peter To. Peter got his start putting the odds in his favor during the online poker boom in the mid-2000s. After building a substantial bankroll from poker, Peter entered the prop trading world and encountered a series of shady firms, insane gains and losses, […]

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