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  • Season 6

S06E05: Managing a Mid-Frequency Crypto Prop Desk

  • May 29, 2023
  • Tagged as: crypto, hedge funds, high frequency trading, mid frequency trading, style premia, trend following
In this episode I speak with the anonymous twitter user @macrocephalopod. The arc of our conversation follows the arc of his career: beginning with slow-frequency style premia in a hedge fund to building a prop...

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Corey Hoffstein
  • Season 6

S06E03: High Frequency Trading, MEV Strategies, and CrocSwap

  • May 15, 2023
  • Tagged as: crypto, DeFi, high frequency trading, market making, MEV
Doug Colkitt is an ex-high frequency trader, ex-MEV bot searcher, and founder of the decentralized exchange CrocSwap. In this episode, we talk about all three.  We begin with high frequency trading, where Doug walks us...

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Corey Hoffstein
  • Season 6

S06E02: High Frequency Crypto Market Making & the Hyperliquid Exchange

  • May 8, 2023
  • Tagged as: crypto, high frequency trading, market making
My guest this episode is Jeff Yan, founder of Chameleon Trading.   Jeff began his career in high frequency trading at Hudson River Trading but soon moved over to the world of crypto where he...

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  • Season 5

S05E06: Mining Unstructured Data for the Intangible

  • July 2, 2022
  • Tagged as: alternative data, crypto, machine learning
My guest in this episode is Kai Wu, CEO and founder of Sparkline Capital. Kai is a pioneer in the measurement of intangible value.  Using machine learning, he tackles unstructured data sources like patent filings,...

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  • Season 5

S0503: From CTA to web3

  • June 12, 2022
  • Tagged as: crypto, trend following
In this episode, I speak with the Twoquants: Moritz Seibert and Moritz Heiden. There are really two halves to this episode.  In the first, we discuss trend following strategies at length.  We cover the usual...

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Corey Hoffstein
  • Season 5

S05E02: Crypto Market Making

  • June 5, 2022
  • Tagged as: crypto, high frequency trading
In a first for Flirting with Models, my guest this episode is anonymous, going only by the handle LightSpringFox on Twitter.   Mr. Fox is a quantitative trader who works in crypto market making at...

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Corey Hoffstein
  • Season 4

S04E08: Perpetual Swaps, Liquidation Cascades, and the USD-BTC-YEN Triangle Trade

  • June 20, 2021
  • Tagged as: crypto, high frequency trading
In this episode I speak with Sam Trabucco from Alameda Research. Alameda manages over $100mm in digital assets and trades between $600mm and $1.5bn per day. We begin our conversation with a discussion around the...

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  • Season 4

S04E03: Paranoid Crypto Cowboys

  • May 17, 2021
  • Tagged as: crypto, hedge funds
In this episode I chat with David Fauchier of Nickel Digital Asset Management. At Nickel, David manages the Factors Fund, a multi-strategy, multi-manager fund for cryptocurrencies. We leave the philosophical discussions about crypto aside to...

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Corey Hoffstein
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