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Episodes

May 12, 2020

#43 Paul Gordon – Discusses Bitcoin for the Crypto-Curious

Bitcoin, and the world of cryptocurrency, divides opinion. At one end of the scale you’ll find the cynics and sceptics, at the other end those who are fascinated by all things crypto, and in between is everyone else, by vary…
April 29, 2020

#42 Dr Brian Keating - How Evidence Sometimes Loses Out to Emotion

This week’s guest is Dr Brian Keating, Distinguished Professor of Physics at the University of California, San Diego. In this podcast, we interview Dr Keating about some of the connections which bind trading, investing and s…
April 21, 2020

#41 Andrew Aziz - Founder of BearBullTraders: The Mind is in The Process

Andrew Aziz is a Retail Trader, Founder of the Bear Bull Community of Traders and is author of Amazon top-selling book, ‘How to Day Trade for a Living: Tools, Tactics, Money Management, Discipline and Trading Psychology’. An…
April 15, 2020

#40 Performance Based 'Mindfulness for Traders', with Mark Randall

Mark Randall is Co-Host of the AlphaMind Podcast, but this week he becomes the interview guest. Mark is one of the world’s leaders in the delivery of Performance-Based Mindfulness. He works primarily with corporates, includi…
April 8, 2020

#39 Leading traders reflect on trading through the Coronavirus Crisis

The last few weeks have seen traumatic times in the financial markets. Trading conditions in all markets have seen unparalleled volatility and liquidity levels in excess of the worst of 2008 and which few have ever experienc…
March 31, 2020

#38 Denise Shull - Performance Coach to Trading & Investment Professionals

Denise Shull is one of the world’s leading performance coaches. As well as being a former trader herself, Denise focuses on the positive contribution feelings and emotion makes in high-pressure decision-making situations. De…
March 24, 2020

#37 Jon Macaskill US Navy Seal Commander - The Power of Mindfulness & Meditation

Mindfulness and meditation can be enormously powerful when engaged in financial markets. These practices have the ability to weaponize the mind for optimal performance whilst creating a robust and resilient suit of armour ag…
March 16, 2020

#36 David Tait - Ex-Head of FX Trading at Goldman Sachs: Coping with Extreme Fear

In this second interview with David Tait, David talks about fear in trading and how best to cope and manage with the extreme fear which is part of terrain of trading. When it comes to fear, and fear in trading, there are few…
March 3, 2020

#35 David Tait - Ex-Head of FX Trading at Goldman Sachs: Life & Trading Can't Be Separated

David Tait had a fearlessness which made him one of the world’s top traders. This edge helped establish him as one of the leading figures in trading in the financial markets. David success led to him becoming Global Head of …
Feb. 24, 2020

#34 Nick Leeson - Rogue Trader: In His Own Words

25 years ago this week, Barings Bank, founded in 1763, was brought down by the calamitous and illegal trading activities of one of its futures traders, Nick Leeson. Working from their Singapore office, Lesson’s accumulated t…
Feb. 18, 2020

#33 Anthony Crudele - Successful Trading whilst Managing Stress

Anthony Crudele started as a trader on the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) in the late 1990s. He was one of the youngest members of the CME, originally trading the S&P e-mini futures. Anthony was surrounded by…
Feb. 11, 2020

#32 Dr Daniel Crosby - Your Brain is Not Designed to Trade or Invest

Don't let the title of this episode de-motivate you. The more you know about your brain and how it functions, the greater the likelihood you can make positive adjustments which can drive superior trading and investment perfo…
Feb. 4, 2020

#31 Paul Wallace - From Air Force Fighter Controller to Trader

In this week’s episode we are in conversation with Paul Wallace. Paul is a private UK based trader, who taught himself trading after getting attracted to internet stocks in the early 2000s. Prior to that Paul was a fighter c…
Jan. 28, 2020

#30 David Keller CMT - From Music & Psychology to Investing, Technical Analysis & Behavioural Finance

In this week’s episode we are in conversation with David Keller. This is an episode we can only describe as 'Rich': Rich in insight, rich in wisdom, rich in depth, and rich in meaningful dialogue and discussion. David is som…
Jan. 21, 2020

#29 Simon Garcia - The Mental Battle ‘is the Battle’

This podcast episode will fascinate all those who work in trading and investing roles. In this excellent interview with co-hosts Steve and Mark, their guest Simon Garcia bares his soul, describes his experience, and shares h…
Jan. 14, 2020

#28 Jim Simons - The Man Who Solved The Markets – With Greg Zuckerman

Jim Simons is the most successful trader of the last 3 decades by a country mile. Simons founded the Renaissance Technologies the secretive Hedge Fund which employs some of the world’s most brilliant mathematical geniuses. T…
Jan. 7, 2020

#27 How to Be Better as Traders

In the first AlphaMind podcast of 2020 co-hosts Steven Goldstein and Mark Randall share their Top Tips for how to be more effective, more productive, more successful as Traders and Investment Professionals in 2020. Mark and …
Dec. 10, 2019

#26 Chris Cain - The Alpha Formula: High Powered Strategies to Beat The Market With Less Risk.

Chris Cain spent a decade working as a Market Maker in Fixed Income products before moving on to work privately as a trader and producing some outstanding performance in a very short space of time. Chris is also co-author of…
Dec. 3, 2019

#25 Beat Nussbaumer - 35 years as an Investment Bank FX Trader

Beat Nussbaumer started trading FX in 1984 for UBS in Zurich. Over the next 35 years Beat worked for a who’s who of Investment Banks including Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, and Commerzbank as a market-maker, proprietary tra…
Nov. 25, 2019

#24 Nick Smith - The Crossover of Sports Betting & Financial Market Trading

This interview is really in two parts. The first 15 minutes of the interview Nick tells about himself and his new venture, and talks about the comparison between trading and sports-betting. Nick sees sports-betting as still …
Nov. 16, 2019

#23 The Trauma of Trading

This episode was sparked by an overwhelming response to a tweet posted this week by podcast host Steven Goldstein on the AlphaMind twitter handle https://twitter.com/AlphaMind101. The Tweet: _________________________________…
Nov. 9, 2019

#22 New York Yankees Performance Coach Dana Cavalea - Habits of a Champion

Dana Cavalea was Strength, Conditioning and Performance Coach for the New York Yankees when they won the world series in 2009. Today he coaches leaders, executives, traders and investors in how to be in peak physical and men…
Nov. 2, 2019

#21 Benis Kumar - Behavioural Finance and Trading Biases

Benis is a partner and behavioural scientist with 'Final Mile', the world’s leading Behavioural Architecture Consultancy. Behavioural Architecture seeks to solve complex issues and problems where conventional approaches fall…
Oct. 26, 2019

#20 Carol Harmer - Technical Trading & Technical Analysis

This week’s guest is Carol Harmer. Carol started as a trader working for Midland Bank markets (which later became HSBC Markets), in the early 1980s on the LIFFE (London International Financial Futures Exchange) in London. S…