Top Traders Unplugged
Kanaal Besonderhede
Top Traders Unplugged
Discover the fascinating world of investing with Niels Kaastrup-Larsen and his remarkable co-hosts. Each week, we bring you compelling conversations with legendary investors, leading economists, masterful traders, and forward-thinking thought leaders. From Trend Following and Global Macro to Geo-Pol...
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GM90: The Quiet Repricing of Reality ft. Adam Rozencwajg & Cem Karsan
Power shifts quietly, until it doesn’t. In this episode, Niels Kaastrup-Larsen and Cem Karsan are joined by Adam Rozencwajg to trace the slow fracture...
OI19 BONUS: Living With Ed Seykota ft. David Druz
Dave Druz spent six months living with Ed Seykota - not shadowing a trading system, but watching a way of being. In this bonus episode, he shares what...
SI372: QIS Unboxed: Rules, Wrappers, and Reality ft. Nick Baltas
As equity markets grind higher and trend strategies navigate sharp reversals, Moritz Siebert welcomes Nick Baltas of Goldman Sachs for a conversation...
OI19: The Trader Who Never Spoke...Until Now ft. David Druz
Dave Druz has never told his story... not like this, not anywhere. For over 40 years, he traded quietly, systematically, and on his own terms. No mark...
SI371: Trends Don’t Form Randomly. They Form Reflexively ft. Richard Brennan
Richard Brennan returns this week to explore how markets truly move - not through randomness or rationality, but through impact, feedback, and memory....
UGO07: The Illusion of Safety: How Markets Became the Economy ft. Keith DeCarlucci, Patrick Kazley & Hari Krishnan
Recorded amid the noise and pulse of the RMC conference in Munich, this episode of U Got Options follows a market learning to see itself anew. Cem Kar...
SI370: Sharpe Ratios, Tail Risks, and the Cost of Comfort ft. Nigol Koulajian & Alan Dunne
Nigol Koulajian, founder of AlphaQuest rejoins Niels and Alan for a conversation about markets shaped less by fundamentals than by perception. As poli...
GM89: When Credibility Becomes the Risk Premium ft. Maurice Obstfeld
Maurice Obstfeld joins Alan Dunne for a clear-eyed look at how the foundations of the global monetary system are shifting - and why much of the world...
SI369: Liquidity, Leverage, and the End of Safety ft. Mark Rzepczynski
Gold is ripping, but it’s not about inflation. It’s about trust - or the slow erosion of it. Mark Rzepczynski returns to map out the shifting terrain...
GM88: Cycles of Promise and Pain: Argentina’s Unfinished Lesson ft. Nicolas Dujovne
Argentina’s history is one of recurring promises and painful resets. Nicolas Dujovne has lived that cycle from the inside, serving as Finance Minister...
SI368: Valuation Has Left the Room ft. Cem Karsan & Alan Dunne
Cem Karsan joins Alan Dunne to chart a market running on more than just momentum. Beneath the surface: a structural liquidity engine, political incent...
IL42: Redefining Sovereignty in a Borderless Financial System ft. Zoe Liu
China’s trade surplus with the US remains stubbornly large, but its appetite for Treasuries is fading. So where are the dollars going, and what does t...
SI367: Portfolio Design in a Distorted World ft. Andrew Beer
Equities are up more than 50% since the April lows, yet the world feels anything but stable. In this episode, Niels Kaastrup-Larsen and Andrew Beer ex...
UGO06: Democratizing the Asymmetric Trade ft. Vlad Tenev
Vlad Tenev, CEO of Robinhood joins Cem Karsan at the Hood Summit in Las Vegas, for a timely conversation about the shifting edge in markets. From mem...
SI366: The Strategy Didn’t Fail. The Investors Did. ft. Rob Carver
Rob Carver is back from summer break for a conversation that moves between past and present through the lens of lived experience. Starting with the an...
ALO31: What If the Illiquidity Premium Was Never Real? ft. Richard Tomlinson
Richard Tomlinson joins Alan Dunne for a conversation shaped by experience, not theory. As CIO of LPPI, Richard is responsible for £27 billion in pens...
SI365: Design or Luck: Why Trend Following Results Diverge ft. Katy Kaminski
Katy Kaminski returns to explore why results in trend following rarely look alike, even when the rules sound the same. Using fresh research from Man G...
GM87: Who Really Sets Policy Now? ft. Anna Wong
Anna Wong, Chief U.S. Economist at Bloomberg, joins Alan Dunne with a clear-eyed assessment of where policy and politics are headed. As markets bet on...
SI364: What makes an Alternative Investment Truly Valuable? ft. Moritz Seibert
What makes an alternative investment truly valuable? In this episode, Moritz Siebert joins Niels Kaastrup-Larsen for a conversation that moves past ma...
IL41: They’re Not Just Reading You... They’re Rewriting You ft. Sandra Matz
What if knowing you isn’t the end goal... but shaping you is? In this episode, Kevin Coldiron speaks with Columbia professor Sandra Matz about how alg...
SI363: The Misreading of Trend ft. Nick Baltas
As trend following begins to reassert itself, Niels and Nick Baltas dig beneath the surface of recent CTA performance - where the signals are working,...
OI18: The Carbon Trade, Without the Illusion ft. Mike Azlen
Mike Azlen joins Moritz Seibert for a frank look at carbon markets, and why much of what passes for climate action may be making things worse. While o...
SI362: The Alpha Most Systems Miss ft. Yoav Git
Yoav Git and Alan Dunne sits down for a conversation that challenges familiar assumptions about curve trading, market structure, and the role of CTAs....
GM86: Everyone’s Watching the Fed. The Real Story’s Somewhere Else. ft. Louis Vincent-Gave
Louis-Vincent Gave returns with a blunt assessment of a global order fraying at key seams. Construction is stalling. Trade policy is adrift. Capital i...
SI361: The Four Faces of Trend Following ft. Richard Brennan
Richard Brennan joins Niels for a conversation that redefines how trend following is understood. Behind the shared language lie four distinct archetyp...
UGO05: Volatility’s Blueprint: How Markets Really Move ft. Mandy Xu & Ed Tom
From the first futures in 1848 to today’s zero-day options, Cem Karsan, Mandy Xu, and Ed Tom chart how derivatives have moved from the market’s periph...
SI360: The Fed, the Fiction, and the Fight for Control ft. Alan Dunne
When official data starts serving politics, markets lose their anchor. Alan Dunne and Niels examine the quiet shift unfolding as the U.S. edges closer...
IL40: Why the Economy Feels Broken... Even When It’s Growing ft. Diane Coyle
What if our most trusted economic statistic is pointing us in the wrong direction? Diane Coyle joins Kevin Coldiron to explore why GDP - long treated...
SI359: Trend Following in a World That Loves Bubbles ft. Mark Rzepczynski
Mark Rzepczynski joins Niels Kaastrup-Larsen for a conversation shaped by tension between surface calm and deeper dislocation. From copper’s sudden co...
GM85: What If the Real Risk Isn’t Recession — But Reinvention? ft. Steven Bell
Steven Bell has seen the macro machine from every angle - Treasury insider, hedge fund manager, and chief economist. In this wide-ranging conversation...
SI358: Why the Best Trend Models Might Be the Simplest Ones ft. Tom Wrobel & Andrew Beer
Andrew Beer and Tom Wroble return to join Niels Kaastrup-Larsen for a timely examination of how trend following is adapting, and why some say it may b...
TTU150: Scarcity, Security, and the Shift to Soil ft. Artem Milinchuk
What happens when an overlooked asset becomes essential? Artem Milinchuk returns to share how farmland, long seen as niche... is quietly stepping into...
SI357: Liquidity, Leverage, and the Lie of Calm ft. Cem Karsan
As summer sets in, Cem Karsan joins Niels Kaastrup-Larsen to trace the contours of a market that feels calm but isn’t. What looks like low vol masks a...
UGO04: CNBC Legend on the Price of Losing Price ft. Rick Santelli
Rick Santelli joins Cem Karsan for a conversation that cuts through the noise. From the floor of the Cboe to the era of central bank primacy, Santelli...
SI356: The Anatomy of a CTA Recovery ft. Katy Kaminski
Katy Kaminski returns to examine a moment in trend following that feels familiar... but isn’t. Drawing on new research, she and Niels explore how draw...
ALO30: The Quiet Rewire of Portfolio Construction ft. Cian Walsh
Cian Walsh, Head of Hedge Funds and Private Debt at Formue, joins Alan Dunne to explore what it means to allocate capital when the macro regime, clie...
SI355: Drawdowns Don’t Lie, But They May Mislead ft. Alan Dunne
Markets have recovered fast - maybe too fast. Alan and Niels unpack what sits beneath the surface: a bond market brushing off record deficits, volatil...
OI17: The End of the Bull Market: What’s Next for Equities? ft. Asim Ghaffar
In this episode, Moritz Seibert speaks with Asim Ghaffar, the founder and CIO of AG Capital, a Boston-based macro hedge fund. Asim explains why he bel...
SI354: Everyone’s Different. Until They’re Not ft. Rob Carver
With markets drifting and conviction thinning, Rob Carver joins Niels to take stock of a moment that feels suspended... not quite crisis, not quite ca...
GM84: What Everyone Saw, but No One Priced ft. Bob Elliott
Bob Elliott joins Cem Karsan and Niels Kaastrup-Larsen for a conversation about what happens when strong economic data masks a deeper structural shift...