Travis Kling: The Secrets of a Crypto Trader

The Pomp Podcast

Anthony Pompliano

Business, Investing

4.8 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2018

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

Travis Kling is the founder and CIO at Ikigai Asset Management, an investment firm focused on crypto assets. He previously was a portfolio manager at Point72 where he traded Long/Short Energy Equities. In this conversation, Anthony Pompliano and Travis Kling discuss token structures, price movements and outlook, value accrual, the importance of BitMEX, and what needs to change for crypto to have sustainability.

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0:00.0	What's up, everyone? This is Anthony Pompliano. Most of you know me as Pomp. You're listening
0:06.7	Off the Chain, simply the best podcast in crypto. Let's kick this thing off.
0:15.9	Travis Kling is the founder and CIO at Ikigai Asset Management, an investment firm focused
0:20.3	on crypto assets.
0:21.6	He previously was a portfolio manager at 0.72, where he traded long-short energy equities.
0:26.5	In this episode, we cover a lot. We discuss token structures, price movements and outlook,
0:31.6	value accrual, the importance of Bitmex and Asian algorithmic market makers, and what needs
0:36.1	to change for crypto to have sustainability.
0:38.2	This may be one of the best episodes we've ever recorded, so I hope you enjoyed half as much as I did.
0:43.9	Anthony Pompliano is a partner at Morgan Creek Digital. All opinions expressed by Pomp or his
0:49.2	guests on this podcast are solely their opinions and do not reflect the opinions of Morgan Creek
0:53.5	Digital or Morgan Creek Capital Management. You should not treat any opinion expressed by Pomp
0:58.6	as a specific inducement to make a particular investment or follow a particular strategy,
1:04.0	but only as an expression of his opinion. This podcast is for informational purposes only.
1:11.6	Before we get started, I wanted to tell you about our sponsor, Block Estate, a security
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1:19.0	They've partnered with Polymath and CoinList comply API to create one of the first tokenized
1:23.7	real estate funds, and they have a unique buyback and burn model.
1:27.3	To learn more,
1:28.2	visit blockestate.com. All right, guys, this is going to be an awesome episode. We've got
1:34.0	Travis here, who's got a pretty interesting background and just jumped all in in crypto. And
1:39.0	you probably have some of the wildest ideas of what's going on in the market and kind of some of your
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