Brent Donnelly on What It Takes To Be a Winning Trader
Odd Lots
Bloomberg
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🗓️ 12 August 2021
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
The last 18 months has seen an incredible influx of people getting into trading. Thanks to a combination of Robinhood, a bull market, and perhaps more free time, trading is part of popular culture to a degree we haven't seen in over two decades. But what does it take to really win over time, across multiple cycles? And who should make an attempt at going pro? On this episode, we speak with veteran trader Brent Donnelly, the author of the new book Alpha Trader: The Mindset, Methodology and Mathematics of Professional Trading, on what it takes to consistently win.
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| 0:43.7 | Hello and welcome to another episode of the Odlots podcast. I'm Joe Wyzenthal. |
| 1:00.2 | And I'm Tracy Alloway. You know, we haven't really talked about sort of the pure like markets in |
| 1:08.0 | a while. We've been talking a little bit about crypto. We've been talking a bit about macro. |
| 1:13.3 | We've been talking about supply chains a lot, obviously. But the other big sort of story for |
| 1:19.8 | the last year and a half has just been in this incredible boom in trading. I'm going to ignore the |
| 1:27.4 | subtle dig at crypto there. This idea we haven't been talking about markets except for crypto. |
| 1:33.2 | But yeah, no, you're right. So it feels like so long ago. But really, it was only six or seven months |
| 1:40.8 | when we had the GameStop phenomenon, the big boom in retail trading and Wall Street bets, |
| 1:47.1 | and this idea that everyone was suddenly pouring into meme stocks. It feels so so long ago. It's |
| 1:53.1 | weird. Yeah. And of course, you know, like, so I personally first started getting interested in |
| 1:59.7 | markets, just as a thing I was interested in like in the late 90s and high school and there's |
| 2:04.4 | the dot com bubble going on. And at that time, it was just trading retail trading was really take |
| 2:11.6 | off, but also just really became like part of the culture. People were talking about the stocks. |
| 2:14.8 | They were trading and what they were bullish on and so forth. And then it went, felt like that |
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