Looking To Know The Direction Of The S&P 500? Brent Kochuba From Spotgamma Shows You How The Pros Trade Volatilityow Spotgamma
Money Tree Investing
Money Tree Investing Podcast
4.6 • 658 Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2022
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Brent Kochuba, the founder of SpotGamma, has expertise predicting the future movements of equities and indices. While a lot of what he does is a bit technical, if you want to know where things are going in the future... Brent is your guy.
Short Squeeze, Gamma Squeeze, and volatility. All things that Brent tracks daily. Listen to this episode to find out how the pros look at the increase volatility we have seen in the markets.
Today's Panelists:
- Kirk Chisholm | Innovative Wealth
- Barbara Friedberg | Barbara Friedberg Personal Finance
- Megan Gorman | The Wealth Intersection
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Money Tree Investing Podcast. |
| 0:04.7 | Stock market, wealth, personal finance, value stocks, invest in your life. |
| 0:11.1 | Hello, Smart Money Tree podcast listeners. |
| 0:13.2 | Welcome to this week's show. |
| 0:14.6 | My name's Kirk Chisholm and I'll be your host. |
| 0:16.7 | So today we're talking with Brent Kachuba. |
| 0:19.0 | How you doing today, Brent? |
| 0:19.8 | I'm doing great. |
| 0:20.6 | Thanks so much for having me on. |
| 0:21.9 | Yeah, glad to have you on the show. |
| 0:23.2 | I really wanted to bring you on because a lot of stuff that you talk about, I think, |
| 0:26.5 | is going to be priceless for a lot of our listeners right now, given what's going on in the world. |
| 0:30.8 | So when you tell us a little bit about your background to start so people can understand who you are. I'm going to give away my age here by talking about my background, I guess, but I've had about 20 years of sell side and buy side experience, almost all of that |
| 0:42.7 | on the derivatives desks at a couple different banks, Credit Suisse and Bank of America, namely, |
| 0:47.8 | and then I was with Wolverine, who's an option's market maker. I then went to a family office. |
| 0:52.3 | When January 2020, the pandemic hit, I launched Spotgamma.com. |
| 0:56.7 | And what we do is we analyze the options market to forecast how that might impact the underlying equity and indexes. |
| 1:04.3 | How do you characterize derivatives? Because a lot of listeners may not know what those are. |
| 1:07.6 | Yeah, it should be very specific there. So I focused almost exclusively on the |
| 1:11.2 | U.S. options market. So that is options on equities and indices with the SPX, S&P 500 being kind of the |
| 1:17.8 | bread and butter there. So tell us a little about that side. What was that like doing that? You know, |
| 1:22.0 | are you trading all the time? Or what was it like? Would you learn? I had a pretty unique experience, I think, because I started |
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