Top Traders Unplugged

SI371: Trends Don’t Form Randomly. They Form Reflexively ft. Richard Brennan

UGO07: The Illusion of Safety: How Markets Became the Economy ft. Keith DeCarlucci, Patrick Kazley & Hari Krishnan

SI370: Sharpe Ratios, Tail Risks, and the Cost of Comfort ft. Nigol Koulajian & Alan Dunne

GM89: When Credibility Becomes the Risk Premium ft. Maurice Obstfeld

SI369: Liquidity, Leverage, and the End of Safety ft. Mark Rzepczynski

GM88: Cycles of Promise and Pain: Argentina’s Unfinished Lesson ft. Nicolas Dujovne

SI368: Valuation Has Left the Room ft. Cem Karsan & Alan Dunne

In this episode of Top Traders Unplugged, Alan Dunne interviews Cem Karsan about market bubbles, reflexivity, and investment strategies. Karsan draws parallels between the current market and the late 90s, emphasizing liquidity, narratives like AI, and government control. They discuss the growth of structured products, ...

IL42: Redefining Sovereignty in a Borderless Financial System ft. Zoe Liu

SI367: Portfolio Design in a Distorted World ft. Andrew Beer

UGO06: Democratizing the Asymmetric Trade ft. Vlad Tenev

SI366: The Strategy Didn’t Fail. The Investors Did. ft. Rob Carver

Niels Kaastrup-Larsen and Rob Carver discuss market trends, including the recent Fed rate cut and large institutions entering the CTA space. They analyze managed futures performance, with both reporting positive gains for the month but still slightly down for the year. They address listener questions about position siz...

ALO31: What If the Illiquidity Premium Was Never Real? ft. Richard Tomlinson

SI365: Design or Luck: Why Trend Following Results Diverge ft. Katy Kaminski

GM87: Who Really Sets Policy Now? ft. Anna Wong

In this episode of Top Traders Unplugged, Alan Dunne interviews Anna Wong, Chief U.S. Economist at Bloomberg, about the U.S. economy, the Federal Reserve's monetary policy, and the potential impacts of tariffs and AI. Wong shares her perspective on Powell's recent statements, suggesting the market may be overestimating...

SI364: What makes an Alternative Investment Truly Valuable? ft. Moritz Seibert

IL41: They’re Not Just Reading You... They’re Rewriting You ft. Sandra Matz

SI363: The Misreading of Trend ft. Nick Baltas

OI18: The Carbon Trade, Without the Illusion ft. Mike Azlen

SI362: The Alpha Most Systems Miss ft. Yoav Git

In this episode of Top Traders Unplugged, Alan Dunne fills in for Niels and is joined by Yoav Git to discuss current market trends and investment strategies. Yoav shares his experience with stand-up comedy and its relation to taking on challenges. They delve into the impact of Jerome Powell's statements at Jackson Hole...

GM86: Everyone’s Watching the Fed. The Real Story’s Somewhere Else. ft. Louis Vincent-Gave