Smarter Trading

Smarter Trading

Ready to level up your trading? Tune in to hear from professional traders — from quantitative to fundamental, day traders to trend followers — as they share practical advice, tips, and insights on investing in the stock market. Join Trade Risk’s Evan Medeiros every other Monday as he chats with guests to help you become a smarter trader.

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February 14, 2022 37 mins

In this solo episode, host Evan Medeiros reflects on his conversations from Season 2 guests and shares his favorite lessons and highlight clips.

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This episode is sponsored by Investor’s Business Daily. IBD has helped investors navigate every market cycle with their time-tested ...

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Hello everybody, our guest today is Brian Lund, a fintech executive, investor, and writer with over 35 years of trading experience.

Brian is the publisher of The Lund Loop, a weekly newsletter in which he writes about the intersection between markets, trading, and life.

In this special live episode of Smarter Trading, host Evan Medeiros and special guest Brian Lund, are on camera, sharin...

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Patrick is the founder of Mission Winners. He has had the privilege of meeting and learning from legendary traders like: Martin Zweig, Bill O’ Neil, and Ed Seykota. He was an IBD Meetup co-leader and most importantly, he is a family man, happily married with 4 kids.

In Patrick's own words, "My trading and approach to investing is “stolen.” It’s taken from the greats. I’ve tweaked and fin...

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Our guest today is Samantha Laduc. Samantha is the Founder of LaDucTrading.com and CIO at LaDuc Capital LLC. Samantha is known for timing major market inflection points in equities, commodities, bonds, currencies, cryptos and especially volatility. 

In this episode we break down Samantha’s macro-to-micro framework and c...

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Our guest today is Kunal Desai. Kunal is an American stock trader and CEO of Bulls on Wall Street, an online trading academy. He began trading in 1999 and has spent most of career perfecting momentum based day-trading strategies.

In this episode we talk all about what it takes to day trade stocks. Kunal shares lessons he learned from his early days, the importance of finding mentors, and...

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Our guest today is Eddy Elfenbein. Eddy has been a leading writer in the financial community since starting the Crossing Wall Street website and CWS “Buy List” in 2005 and 2006, respectively. He often appears on CNBC and Bloomberg, where he shares his insights on the market and the economy. 

In this episode we talk all ...

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Our guest today is Dr. Barry Burns. Barry has been trading markets for over 50 years and is the founder of Top Dog Trading and author of the popular book, Trend Trading for Dummies.

In this episode Barry breaks down the many different trading st...

Our guest today is Dr. Phil Pearlman. Phil earned his doctorate in clinical psychology and has been involved in markets since the 1990s. He’s currently the chief behavioral officer at Osprey Funds and has held roles at Yahoo Finance, Stocktwits, and Bank of the Ozarks.

In this episode we talk about the importance of tak...

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Our guest today is Frank Zorrilla. Frank is the founder of Zor Capital, a registered investment advisory firm in New York. He started his career in 1997 and has been professionally managing money since 98.

In this episode we get tactical discussing Frank’s short-term swing trading strategy. We talk about the importance of knowing where a stock’s move started from, how to be situationally...

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Our guest today is Cesar Alvarez. From 2004 to 2013, Cesar was the Director of Trading Strategies at TradingMarkets.com and Connors Research. Cesar has developed strategies for private equity funds, authored multiple books on trading, and was a Software Engineer on the early versions of Microsoft Excel. He is well known in the quant community nowadays for his blog, Alvarez Quant Trading.

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Hello everybody, our guest today is Nikki Dunn, a trader, investor, and Certified Financial Planner. Nikki is the creator of She Talks Finance, a financial education platform to help people learn money in a fun and approachable way.

In this epis...

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Hello everybody, our guest today is Brian Shannon of Alphatrends.net. Brian started his professional investing career in 1991 as a retail stock broker and then quickly moved on to follow his true passion of trading, in 1994, which he continues to do full-time to this day.

Brian holds a CMT designation and is the author ...

September 1, 2021 1 min

Season 2 of the Smarter Trading Podcast is on its way and will be live on Monday, September 13th. We're excited to get to know our guests and for them to share their knowledge about trading the stock market.

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Every single strategy has pluses (strengths) and minuses (weaknesses). There's no one strategy that's all pluses. Being able to trade multiple strategies will make sure you're never at a complete loss. Please enjoy this clip from Episode #8 of Smarter Trading with David Settle.

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When should a trader call it quits? That applies for when things are going well and when things aren't working out as intended. Hear Brian Lund give his perspective in this clip from Episode 7 of Smarter Trading.

Learn more & connect with Brian

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  • Visit Brian's website here

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Want to minimize your mistakes? Worry less about your returns and focus more on your trading process. Please enjoy this clip with Gregory Krupinski from Episode 6 of Smarter Trading.

Learn more & connect with Gregory

  • Follow Gregory here
  • Visit Gregory's website here

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"The mechanics of trading are actually pretty easy, but it's your own brain that conspires against you to make it much harder than it needs to be" — Sean McLaughlin. Please enjoy this clip from Episode 5 of Smarter Trading.

Learn more & connect with Sean

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Looking for greater reward and bigger profits out of the market? Not a problem, but you have to be willing to take on some more risk. Hear Anne-Marie Baiynd give her thoughts on balancing risk and reward in this clip from Episode 4 of Smarter Trading.

Learn more & connect with Anne-Marie

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TuringTrader's Felix Bertram shares the benefits of backtesting strategies for discretionary traders and some tips on learning how to code. Please enjoy this clip from Episode 3 of Smarter Trading.

Learn more & connect with Felix

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Suri Duddella shares his thoughts on day trading chart patterns and why there are some technical advantages to trading intraday time-frames. Please enjoy this clip from Episode 2 of Smarter Trading.

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