Episodes
Finom Groups Seth Golden tells of his story starting as a day trader in 1999 to now running a successful research firm with one of the best weekly newsletters in the business.    Getting fired from Goldman Sachs for calling $RIMM a sell, then actually shorting it and funding the firm for 2 years   New York Times article mayhem   Historical volatility, and today   50 Basis point hike priced in   Mid term election years....when market bottom ser?   How newer investors should play the game...
Published 05/03/22
Ask yourself, what is the goal of being in the markets? Be honest with yourself. Is it to spend all day watching CNBC/Bloomberg? Is it being right on Twitter and dunking on people? If that's the case, then change nothing. I doubt that's the real reason that you chose to get into trading. The real reason is to make money, right? It's not a bad thing to say, it's true. It's important. People are counting on you, your family is counting on you. Society is counting on you. There are a lot of...
Published 04/20/22
SquishChaos (@SqhishChaos on Twitter) joins Chris and Aaron (Derek and Hansel) about his Triple Halving theory which will take $ETH to $30-50k and then finally a massive run to $150k in 2022.    If you want to get started with DeFi send your Crypto to Blockfi and borrow up to 50% of the value Use my link and you get $10 worth of free BTC!   https://blockfi.com/?ref=28c98bbf     Get signed up for our FREE Weekly Newsletter where I go deep on systems trading, market regimes, crypto, macro,...
Published 05/26/21
Chief investment officer of https://ar.ca a crypto hedge fund, Jeff Dorman and Chris chat about regulation in the crypto space, ArcaCoin, Interest Rates, the Federal Reserve, Blockfi, Greyscale Bitcoin Trust and a glimpse into their investment process at Ar.Ca   Follow Jeff on Twitter at https://twitter.com/jdorman81  Subscribe to their excellent blog "My Two Satoshis" https://www.ar.ca/blog  💰💰💰 If you want to get started with DeFi send your Crypto to Blockfi and borrow up to 50% of the...
Published 03/24/21
Crypto Derek Zoolander (Aaron) and Crypto Hansel (Chris)  #SoHotRightNow   💎 Market Review  💎 CFTC Fines Coinbase and they delay their IPO  💎 ETH miners using bots to front run UniSwap trades and other games people play  💎 Defi user growth over time   🔥 Core portfolio vs Chasing Alpha   💎 Chris's Gem of the week 💎  Hansel buys his first NFT  Jim Cramer of CNBC ape's into $BTC at $12k with $500k   💎 Aarons Gem of the week 💎  https://radicle.xyz/blog/introducing-rad.html   💰💰💰  If...
Published 03/23/21
This week Chris and Crypto Derek Zoolander (Aaron) https://www.twitter.com/cryptoderekz talks about getting started in crypto, then going down the DeFi and NFT rabbit holes.    Reach out to Derek and chat!   If you want to get started with DeFi send your Crypto to Blockfi and borrow up to 50% of the value Use my link and you get $10 worth of free BTC!   BlockFi.com Get signed up for our FREE Weekly Newsletter where I go deep on systems trading, market regimes, crypto, macro, equities,...
Published 03/15/21
Today Chris spoke with Carter Thomas going deep into the DeFi space, talking about how to do participate through a loan against a crypto asset and staking.  The really big opportunity that is not being addressed yet in the space and how big of a potential opportunity exits.  You can reach Carter at https://www.twitter.com/carterthomas  If you want to try Blockfi and borrow against BTC or ETH use this link to get started with DeFi on Blockfi  Get signed up for our FREE Weekly Newsletter...
Published 02/11/21
Get signed up for our FREE Weekly Newsletter where I go deep on systems trading, market regimes, crypto, macro, equities, currencies and futures https://www.pollinatetrading.com/subscribe Follow me @ChrisDMacro on Twitter  ***DISCLAIMER: Everything I talk about here is for informational and educational purposes, this is not a recommendation to buy or sell any security.*** Today we spoke with Geff Tudisco https://www.twitter.com/geofftudisco we cover: GME What caused it all to...
Published 02/05/21
Ray Dalio calls for a dollar collapse. Chris explains what that really means and how beneficial that will be if you are prepared and positioned to take advantage of it instead of freaking out and living in fear!   That's what we do in the Trading Lab https://www.pollinatetrading.com/lab   Get signed up for our FREE Weekly Newsletter where I go deep on systems trading, market regimes, crypto, macro, equities, currencies and futures https://www.pollinatetrading.com/subscribe   Follow me...
Published 10/22/20
Warren Buffett is best known for his ability to pick stocks and earn compounding interest over the long haul.   Most people associate trading with high risk, high return. But about 90% of all traders don't actually make money.   Imagine spending all day trading only to end the month negative, and not making that 10, 100, 1,000% that the Instagram butt Models are promising you...that's what 90% of all traders do.   Now imagine having a strategy that YOU built, your very own, that makes 2R per...
Published 10/22/20
Alex Barros @MacroOps on Twitter, Co-Founder and Chief Market Strategist at Macro Ops joins Chris today to talk about the upcoming bull market in equities, a Dem sweep of the election, the US Dollar, demographics, real estate and everything else in the markets.  ------------------------------- Sign up for my FREE email where I go deep multiple times per week on markets, trading strategies, theories and real ideas to help traders improve. I highly recommend you take those emails and save...
Published 10/09/20
Breaking News, MicroStrategy invests 20% of its treasury capital in Bitcoin stating it is a better store of value and a better investment than anything else out there.  Some BTC and ETH price predictions ------------------- Sign up for my FREE email where I go deep multiple times per week on markets, trading strategies, theories and real ideas to help traders improve. I highly recommend you take those emails and save them like chapters in a book as a reference so you when you have...
Published 08/13/20
If you are familiar with Malcolm Gladwell's idea that it takes about 10,000 hours of work on a topic to become good at it, paraphrasing, then how do you do that in something like trading where markets are only open for a limited amount of time and well, you need to sleep too! Today I talk about systems trading and how to do just that, get 10,000 hours in an accelerated time frame.  Let me know if you like these smaller episodes ------------------- Sign up for my FREE email where I go deep...
Published 07/15/20
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Published 07/05/20
Alex Barrow @macro-ops on Twitter sent out an email this morning about his hierarchy of market technicals, and I thought it was great. So I just wanted to piggy back on his insights because they summarize how important some things are, that few focus on, and how insignificant other things are, that most focus on.  ------------------------------------ Sign up for my FREE email where I go deep multiple times per week on markets, trading strategies, theories and real ideas to help traders...
Published 06/18/20
Looking back, as much as things have changed, they've stayed the same.  I started trading in 1999, I was the equivalent of the RobinHood generation now, back then.  In this episode I go back in time and go over the dot com bubble, y2k and 9/11, but there is sooooo much more to unpack. Let me know if you like this episode and want more like this, or not. ------------------------------------ Sign up for my FREE email where I go deep multiple times per week on markets, trading strategies,...
Published 06/18/20
Today Chris covers a couple of setups in the FX/Currencies markets. This is a quick episode, let me know if you like these short ones or prefer the longer form? ------------------------------------ Sign up for my FREE email where I go deep multiple times per week on markets, trading strategies, theories and real ideas to help traders improve. I highly recommend you take those emails and save them like chapters in a book as a reference so you when you have questions, you can turn to the...
Published 06/11/20
Today Chris talks about how he stayed bullish through the pandemic, financial crisis, unemployment and the chaos the past few months.  ------------------------------------ Sign up for my FREE email where I go deep multiple times per week on markets, trading strategies, theories and real ideas to help traders improve. I highly recommend you take those emails and save them like chapters in a book as a reference so you when you have questions, you can turn to the chapter you have questions...
Published 06/10/20
Today Chris does a solo episode going into how he uses systems for long term and short term investing and trading the markets.  It all starts with market regimes and matching the assets/markets incentives to that regime. ------------------------------------ Sign up for my FREE email where I go deep multiple times per week on markets, trading strategies, theories and real ideas to help traders improve.  I highly recommend you take those emails and save them like chapters in a book as a...
Published 06/09/20
The Macro Ops Podcast is sponsored by Maverick Trading - If you are an individual trader, I can' t think of any reason why you wouldn't want to trade with a prop firm.  They literally give you a money to trade, they lever you up.  I've been with Maverick for about 5-6 years now and I can't say a single bad thing about it.  If you are profitable and can play by big boy/girl rules, then get after it Forex http://bit.ly/2SXPFWL Options...
Published 04/16/20
John Lott is the Founder and CEO of J. Lott & Co, a global macro hedge fund and advisory firm.  In addition, John is an investment principal at Sustainable Income, a private credit fund that specializes in illiquid structured credit products. Prior   to   J.   Lott   &   Co,   John   was   the   Head   of   Accounting   at   Cerberus   Capital Management.  John has been the CEO, COO and CFO of nearly a dozen companies in industries ranging from consumer products to industrial...
Published 04/06/20
This week Chris does a solo episode about civil crisis.  Chris has spent more than a decade in crisis sites in the military and as part of the US Government or protecting people in some of the worst war torn, natural disasters and many other environments.  He shares his order of priorities, mindset, type of foods to stockpile, what is a priority and what isn't and a blueprint to get through these tumultuous times.  Spoiler Alert: This episode has very little to do with markets and is a...
Published 03/16/20
Alex, Brandon and Chris discuss the Santa Claus rally -    Chris shares his quantitative backtested results of how to trade the Santa Claus Rally.    Brandon talks about his end of year tax loss selling strategy.    And further discussions on the seasonality of markets You can chat with them more  Alex @MacroOps on Twitter Brandon @marketplunger 1 on Twitter Chris @ChrisDMacro on Twitter
Published 12/18/19
The Market Gaggle Week Ahead - this week we talk about the effects of FOMC no cut/hike, Brexit and China and how that effects markets going in to the last big volume week of the year (decade)  Bonds, Currencies, Equities, Commodities triple witching, and the rebalancing of the NASDAQ 100 this week Reach out to Chris @chrisdmacro on Twitter or email [email protected]
Published 12/15/19