Ian Cox and Tessa Dao
339 episodes listed below
Real trading process, minus the hype.
Chat With Traders follows traders through origin stories, painful mistakes, strategy shifts, and the daily work of managing risk. It suits serious market participants who want process over prediction and craft over hype.
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Chat With Traders is a market craft show built around the people behind the trades. It is not flashy. The strongest episodes follow traders from first exposure to markets into the harder questions of edge, risk, psychology, and adaptation. Guests describe what worked, what broke, and what changed afterward. Recent conversations move across small caps, copper pits, crypto derivatives, sports betting, prediction markets, systematic models, options, and backtesting. The range is wide, but the center holds. Every subject eventually becomes a question about process. How does a trader know an edge is real? When should risk increase? What happens when a market becomes more efficient, more liquid, or less forgiving? The show gives those questions room. A sports betting discussion becomes a practical look at lines, open exchanges, anonymity, and liquidity. A systematic trading episode treats automation as additive work, not a magic replacement for judgment. A small-cap conversation turns expectancy and personal fit into the heart of the craft. The series also makes space for quieter psychological episodes. Tessa frames some installments around identity, losses, commitment, and the internal turning points that shape long-term performance. Ian appears in conversations that keep the focus on how a trader actually operates. The tone is respectful and direct. It assumes the audience can handle terms like volatility, options, stops, expectancy, and backtests without being talked down to. It also avoids pretending that market skill is clean or effortless. Sponsor reads and risk disclaimers are present, sometimes at length. Beneath that, the editorial promise is consistent: real market insight, specific trading stories, and very little patience for empty hype.
Made for: For active traders, aspiring traders, and market-obsessed listeners who care about edge, risk, execution, and trader psychology. It best suits people who already know the basics and want experience-led perspective.
What sets it apart: Chat With Traders stands out by letting traders explain how their methods changed over time, not just what they trade now. The show connects market mechanics to personal discipline, making strategy and psychology feel like one continuous problem.
Chat With Traders is your key to the minds of trading's elite performers. Start listening to learn how a diverse mix of traders went from zero to hero, how they successfully trade markets today, and get their best tips 'n pointers for profitable performance, plus much more. Note: You are responsible for your own trading decisions—this is not financial advice.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Detailed follow-up questions turn trading stories into clear lessons about structure, risk, market mechanics, and discipline.
Chat With Traders turns trading experience into practical interrogation. The host keeps asking how a position is structured, what confirms an entry, where the risk sits, and how a trader responds when discipline breaks down.
This is the show that makes traders defend the stop you know they ignored.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A disciplined look at how edge, sizing, and expectancy turn a workable trading setup into durable results.
The episode focuses on how traders look for edge, decide when a setup deserves more size, and use expectancy to steer risk. It also makes the plain but useful point that there are several workable ways to make money in markets, and that any real edge has to fit the trader's…
A clear look at betting as pricing, not just picking winners.
This episode treats sports betting less as entertainment and more as a question of market structure. It follows the shift from betting against the house to trading in peer-to-peer markets, and it gives a clear read on why venues like Pinnacle, Polymarket, and Bed Openly matter…
The trader's edge is shown as something that has to keep adapting.
The discussion follows a trader moving from quick scalps to a more event-driven way of thinking, with copper, natural gas, and gasoline giving the clearest examples. That shift gives the piece its shape.
A grounded look at backtesting that favors process over fantasy.
This episode treats trading automation with a useful amount of restraint. Its strongest point is the argument for building something alongside a discretionary approach instead of ripping out what already works, and that makes the conversation feel practical rather than dreamy.
A blunt reminder to wait for confirmation and let some of the move go.
It centers on trading discipline: wait for confirmation before committing capital, even when a setup starts to look tempting. The guest keeps coming back to stops, closing above the SMA, and filtering for trades that sit above their SMAs, above technical indicators, and stronger…
A disciplined look at prop-firm trading, capital growth, and the patience behind scaling up.
Trading here is framed less like a quick strike and more like a business built slowly. The focus stays on the online prop-firm model and on a trader who treats each new funding shot as another rung to climb, not a shortcut around the work.
A practical look at earnings-volatility trades and the options structures around them.
This review follows the episode through earnings setups as a question of timing and structure, with implied volatility, calendars, and the pre-announcement window doing most of the work.
A clear look at how market memory turns into trading edge.
This episode follows a trader who thinks edge comes less from prediction than from spotting the same market behavior again and again, then putting hard risk controls around it.
Demetri Kofinas interviews specialists on geopolitics, energy markets, AI, and finance at length.
BBC's daily business show, from toy-industry founders to Anthropic's Pentagon standoff.
Edge is personal.
Open exchanges change the opponent.
Sam opens with scalping mechanics.
Chat With Traders episode 318 features Dave Mabe, a North Carolina trader who moved from swing trading into day trading and built a rule-based gapping breakout strategy.
This episode explores how committed traders upgrade their identity and beliefs to achieve their desired destiny, contrasting them with those who make excuses.
This episode explores the quiet internal turning points that shape successful traders' careers, drawing from hundreds of conversations across different markets and strategies.
This episode features a conversation with Jamal Ghori about his journey from early crypto exposure to trading 0DTE options, exploring market evolution and risk management.
In this stripped-down solo episode, host Tessa reflects personally on the emotional demons and challenges faced in trading over the past year, sharing her own experiences with losses and inviting listeners to introspect about their 2025.
This episode features a technical conversation with quantitative trader Doug Colquitt about crypto and DeFi market structure, focusing on liquidations, leverage, and how markets behave under stress.
Bad trades start before the entry.
This episode discusses trading strategies, risk management, and the benefits of using funded trading accounts like Trade the Pool.
This episode discusses trading strategies and tools, featuring ads for trading platforms and a segment on side channel analysis in quant trading.
This episode explores how experienced traders can profit by recognizing and capitalizing on violent market movements through intuition and understanding stock behavior.
This episode discusses trading strategies, market evolution, and the journey of traders who achieved significant wealth.
This episode discusses trading strategies and tools, featuring ads for trading platforms and an interview about applying real-time strategy game skills to trading.
An interview with the CEO of Trade the Pool discussing how online prop firms operate and what they mean for traders.
A trader discusses his approach to drawdowns and losing streaks, emphasizing conviction in his abilities.
Prop firms are the center of this one.
This episode discusses the challenges of emotional trading and presents a low-frequency, high-return approach to managing capital with minimal trades per year.
This episode discusses quantitative trading strategies and the importance of adapting when strategies stop working, with sponsor messages about trading platforms.
Earnings volatility is the puzzle.
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This episode discusses trading strategies and tools, featuring ads for trading platforms and an introduction to the show's focus on elite traders.
This episode discusses trading opportunities, broker promotions, and market strategies for stock traders.
This episode discusses trading strategies, market trends, and financial tools for stock traders.
This episode discusses trading opportunities with funded accounts and broker promotions.
This episode discusses trading strategies, market evolution, and promotional offers from trading platforms.
This episode discusses trading strategies and promotes a funded trading program, with sponsor ads for trading platforms.
A podcast episode discussing trading strategies, market dynamics, and the psychological aspects of trading, with sponsor messages about trading platforms.
Dan McDermott of The Chart Guys traces his trading path from a $5,000 mutual-fund stake in college to penny stocks, cannabis names, and crypto.
This episode discusses trading systems, market-driven decision making, and promotes trading platforms like Trade the Pool and TastyTrade.
This episode discusses trading strategies, broker promotions, and financial planning for traders.
This episode discusses trading strategies, market evolution, and promotional offers from trading platforms.