A quantitative trading podcast for the everyday listener.
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Hi I’m Laron, thanks for checking out my website!
I develop and deploy algorithms in the financial markets. Inspired by the success of my algorithms, I decided to start my own quantitative hedge fund. How hard could it be? In each podcast episode, we'll find out together. Hear about my experiences navigating the complicated financial industry as an outsider.
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In this episode Laron shares how he manages his portfolio of algorithms and his PhD requirements. Finding time to develop and manage algorithms can be very challenging, given our current obligations and schedule. But if it's important, you'll find the time.
Having a track record to show investors is an important part to getting funded. In this episode I talk about what investors are looking for in a track record, my track record, and my next steps with my algorithmic portfolio.
Trading algorithms are difficult to build. In this episode I detail 2 concepts that helped me build successful trading algorithms.
I've passed prop firm challenges before using algorithms, and in this episode I detail how I would do it again from scratch.
In this episode I detail 3 ways to fund your trading algorithms using crypto projects (plus a bonus one).
In this episode I provide an extensive list of funding options for retail algorithmic traders. These routes are based on personal experience using them, and from the perspective of an algorithmic trader.
What happens when you become the best trader at a prop firm trading algorithms? Maybe we shouldn’t fly so close to the sun. In this episode I tell the story of how I got scammed out of a $50,000 trading account after passing a prop firm challenge and becoming funded. The prop firm ghosted the traders and never returned the money.
What's a prop firm? and how can you use them to fund your algorithms? In this episode Laron discusses how he used prop firms to fund his trading algorithms. Not all firms are created equal, and most firms are scams, but if you dig through the dirt, you might find a diamond in the rough.
In this episode Laron tries to get an overview of what he will need to do to start a Quantitative Hedge fund. Laron consults with a former hedge fund executive, who later exposes Laron to his first scam in the Financial industry. Where will he go from here?
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The Plan
How will you use your algorithms?
It's the most wonderful time of the year! To celebrate the holiday season, I’m releasing two trend indicating algorithms for free. Download them through the Metatrader platform.
Here’s a short list of books that made the most impact on my algorithmic trading journey.
Here is a list of prop firms that I have used to trade my algorithms on. You may find success at these firms as well.
My algo-trading journey has been full of ups and downs. Here’s my progress over the years of doing this.
Have you ever considered licensing your algorithms to hedgefunds? It could be a good way to earn additional money, and in Laron's case learn how hedgefunds operate before he starts his own. In this episode Laron details how he came up with that idea, and how he reached out to hedgefunds with the proposal.