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Opto Sessions – Invest in the Next Big Idea

Investment Opportunities: Opto Sessions brings you exclusive interviews with the world’s top investors, fund managers and CEOs, uncovering their secrets to success. Tune in to learn how to invest in the next big idea and gain actionable insights from the industry's sharpest minds.

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Opto Sessions – Invest in the Next Big Idea
#104 - Adam Robinson - Outsmarting the market, The Importance of Systems&The Great Game (Repost) from 2022-02-24T07:00

Today, I have the delight of introducing Adam Robinson, someone I consider a mentor, an incredible thinker who has a unique but masterful way of looking at the market and how it operates.
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#103 - Jonah Lupton - Live Q&A: Growth Selloff Overdone? Earnings Review Featuring: Upstart, Meta&ZIM from 2022-02-17T07:00

On Thursday 10th February, we hosted our latest Twitter Space, with Growth stock investor and FinTwit influencer, Jonah Lupton.

We discussed the growth stock selloff as a tumultuous ear...

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#102 - Jeff Ross - Are innovation stocks in deep value territory? from 2022-02-10T07:00

We’ve got Dr. Jeff Ross on the show again and this is a recording from a live spaces event we hosted back in early Feb. Jeff is the founder and portfolio manager of Vailshire Capital Management,...

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#101 - James Davolos - High Inflation Winners&Capital Light Business Models from 2022-02-03T07:00

Today we welcome back James Davolos onto the show, a portfolio manager at Horizon Kinetics. James joined the firm way back in 2005 and now manages both the Inflation Beneficiaries ETF (INFL) and...

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#100 - William Je - China Outlook: Tech Leaders, Green Energy&Blockchain Stocks from 2022-01-27T07:00

William Je is the founder and CEO of Hamilton Investment Management. The multi-billion-dollar asset manager specialises in private equity investments and institutional-grade digital assets strat...

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#99 - David Hornik - Enterprise Software&SaaS: Fastly, GitLab&Bill.com from 2022-01-20T07:00

David Hornik is an investor and General Partner at venture capital firm, August Capital.  Since joining August Capital in 2000, David has invested in some of the biggest names in enterprise soft...

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#98 - Julian Klymochko - Live Q&A: SPAC Mania, Virgin Galactic&Arbitrage Strategy from 2022-01-13T07:00

On Wednesday 15th December, we hosted our latest live interview on Twitter Spaces, with Hedge fund and SPAC expert Julian Klymochko.

Julian is CEO at Accelerate Financial Technologies,...

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#97 - Paul Schulte - The Money Metaverse from 2022-01-06T07:00

Today we’ve got Paul Schulte on the show. Paul is the founder and editor of Schulte Research, a company that does research on banks, financial technology, and bank algorithms. He’s had a long ca...

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2021 Review (Part 2): Insights from Howard Lindzon, Mark Yusko, Adam Robinson&more from 2021-12-30T07:00

Part 2 of our 2021 review. Listen in to learn from some of my favourite interview snippets from the year.

- Howard Lindzon on SPACs
- Mark Yusko on Digital Assets
- Adam Robinso...

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2021 Review (Part 1): Best Bits from Ross Gerber, Ali Urman, Jonah Lupton&More from 2021-12-23T07:00

This week's episode is slightly different. Over the Christmas period, Ed and I will be taking it in turns to pick our favourite snippets from the episodes recorded this year. Today it was m...

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#94 - Edwin Dorsey - Shorting Bad Businesses, Investigating Care.com&Dorsey the ‘Anti-Zuckerberg’ from 2021-12-16T07:00

Edwin Dorsey is Founder of The Bear Cave, a short-focused newsletter that investigates and uncovers ‘Bad businesses’.

Edwin’s passion for investing began in third grade, and when his g...

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#93 - Simon Erickson - Personalised Medicine, Machine Learning Inference&Waymo's Self Driving Car from 2021-12-09T07:00

Today I’ve got Simon Erickson on the show. Simon is the founder and CEO of 7investing where they empower you to invest in your future! They provide subscribers with the "7 investment ideas&...

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#92 - Gil Baumgarten - A Wall Street Cartel, Unrealised Gains&the Most Common Mistake Investors Make from 2021-12-02T07:00

Gil Baumgarten is President & CEO of Segment Wealth Management, a 36-year veteran of the securities and investment industry.

After 25 years on Wall Street, Gil had grown tired of br...

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#91 - Richard Lightbound - Disruptive Innovation, ROBO Scores&Investing in AI from 2021-11-25T07:00

Richard Lightbound is EMEA & Asia CEO of ROBO Global, an index advisory and Research company helping investors capture the unique opportunities presented by Robotics, Artificial intelligence...

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#90 - Tobias Carlisle - How the Billionaire Contrarians of Deep Value Beat the Market from 2021-11-18T07:00

This week I’ve had the pleasure of interviewing Tobias Carlisle, founder and managing director of Acquirers Funds where he manages the firm's deep value strategy as a portfolio manager.
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#89 - Ali Urman - ARK Invest, DNA Sequencing&the Genomic Revolution from 2021-11-11T07:00

Ali Urman is ARK Invest’s Genomic Revolution analyst, responsible for the company’s research on Gene editing, DNA sequencing, Stem cell technologies & Immunotherapy. As of September 2021, AR...

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#88 - Austin Lieberman - Portfolio Manager at Social Capital - Investing with a Founder's Mentality from 2021-11-04T07:00

This week we’ve got Austin Lieberman on the show, one of the 11 portfolio managers at Chamaths Social Capital. The 11 fund managers were given $50million by social capital earlier this year to t...

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#87 - Jeff Ross - Live Q&A: A Hedge Fund's Stock-Picking Strategy, FILMS&Investing in Tech from 2021-10-28T07:00

On Friday 15th October we hosted our third live interview on Twitter Spaces, with Sessions favourite, Dr. Jeff Ross.

Having previously quizzed Jeff about Bitcoin’s long-term o...

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#86 - Jaime Rogozinski - Founder of WSB (WallStreetBets) from 2021-10-21T07:00

This week I’m delighted to introduce Jaime Rogozinsk, Founder of the notorious WSB subreddit, you’ll all know them from the infamous GameStop short squeeze. A moment that will go down in history...

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#85 - Emmet Savage - Portfolio favourites, MyWallSt and Emmet’s 6 Golden Rules from 2021-10-14T07:00

Emmet Savage is Chief Investor and Co-Founder of MyWallSt. MyWallSt’s mission is to get their readers successfully investing in the stock market, over a long-term time horizon. In addition to ti...

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#84 - Brad Loncar - Live Q&A: Cancer Without Chemo, Evergrande's Impact&Merck's Anti-Covid Pill from 2021-10-07T07:00

Last week we hosted our second live interview on Twitter Spaces, this time with Biotechnology investment expert and pioneer, Brad Loncar.

Brad is the creator of two Nasdaq-listed funds...

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#83 - Kevin T. Carter -"The Biggest Opportunity in the History of Capitalism", Evergrande&Picking the Next Alibaba from 2021-09-30T07:00

Kevin T. Carter is the Founder & Chief Investment Officer of EMQQ. While Kevin considers himself an active ‘value’ investor - a Buffett/Munger disciple -, a 20+-year partnership with Princet...

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#82 - Keith McCullough - Forecasting Using Growth and Inflation, Quads&Debunking'Old Wall'Misinformation from 2021-09-23T08:00

Today we welcomed back Keith McCullough, CEO of the renowned market insights outfit, Hedgeye.

With over 200,000 followers on Twitter, Keith has garnered a global reputation for his tra...

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#81 - Jeff Ross - Live Q&A: Bitcoin's'Real'Value, El Salvador&Hedging Dollar Debasement from 2021-09-16T18:00

This week’s episode is slightly different. You’ll hear a live Q&A held on Twitter Spaces last Friday with Founder of Vailshire Capital Management and friend of the show, Jeff Ross.

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#80 - Andrew Chanin - Space. The final frontier. Shuttles, Hotels, Colonisation&Meteor Mining from 2021-09-09T07:00

Hello everyone, I’m your host, Ed Gotham, and welcome to another episode of Opto Sessions where we interview the top investors from around the world uncovering their secrets to success.
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#79 - Bob Brown (CFO), AEye - AI-driven LiDAR systems for vehicle autonomy, robotic vision and more from 2021-09-02T07:00

This week we’ve got Bob Brown on the show, CFO at AEye. AEye is a leader in AI-driven LiDAR systems for autonomous vehicles, advanced driver-assistance, and robotic vision. Bob has over 30 years...

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#78 - Bruce Liu – 5G, Edge Computing&the Cloud: Building the'New Digital Economy' from 2021-08-26T07:00

Bruce Liu manages WUGI, Esoterica's NextG Economy ETF, which invests in 5G and its enablement of the ‘New Digital Economy’. Having spent time at WisdomTree, Alliance Bernstein, PhaseCapital...

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#77 - Ross Gerber –'Things That Used to be Illegal','Pets Live Like Humans'&7 More Investment Megatrends from 2021-08-19T07:00

Ross Gerber is one of the most influential investors on social and traditional media. Gerber’s candid insight has seen him become a regular on Bloomberg, Reuters, Yahoo Finance, CNN, and Forbes....

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#76 - Hector McNeil – Thematic investing, Hectocorns&the Software ETF from 2021-08-12T07:00

Hector McNeil is one of the most influential ETF experts in the industry, the product of over 19 years of experience, and recognised as such by ETF Stream’s ‘30 index’. Having been instrumental ...

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#75 - Robert Cantwell - The Compound Kings™ ETF (KNGS) - Investing in Compounders from 2021-08-05T07:00

Welcome to Opto Sessions where we interview the top traders and investors from around the world uncovering their secrets to success.

Today,  I welcome Robert Cantwell, the founder of U...

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#74 - Mark Manduca - NYSE: GXO, Innovation in Logistics, Automation, Robotics&Vision Technology from 2021-07-29T07:00

This is a unique episode. We were offered the very exciting opportunity to interview Mark Manduca, Chief Investment Officer for Logistics at XPO Logistics, NYSE-listed equity.

Mark is ...

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#73 - Tom Thornton - Hedge Funds, an FBI Raid&How to Analyse Market Sentiment from 2021-07-22T07:00

I spoke to Hedge Fund Telemetry Founder and President, Thomas Thornton. Tom’s career has taken him from early stints at Morgan Stanley and Roxbury Capital, to the now notorious former hedge fund...

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#72 - Jeff Ross - The Reflation to Deflation Trade, #Wyckoff Accumulation&3 Themes to Watch from 2021-07-15T07:00

This week we’ve got Dr. Jeff Ross on the show again. Jeff is the founder of Vailshire Capital Management, a successful hedge fund which employs an innovative “all-weather” full-cycle portfolio s...

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#71 - Jonah Lupton - Futu Holdings, Upstart&Stocks that 5x over 5 years from 2021-07-08T07:00

I caught up with growth stock investor Jonah Lupton, up 90% year-to-date and ready to discuss the top two holdings in his current portfolio.

Ed originally spoke to Jonah back in March,...

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#70 - Brad Loncar - Investing in Biotech, Chinese Biopharma&The Immunocology ETF from 2021-07-01T07:00

Brad Loncar is a Biotechnology expert, a pioneer in Biotech investment, and the index provider for two Nasdaq-listed biotech ETFs, Loncar’s Cancer Immunotherapy ETF, and the China BioPharma ETF....

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#69 - Beth Kindig - Microtrends in Growth Stocks, AI&Electric Vehicles from 2021-06-24T07:00

On today's show, I’m delighted to introduce Beth Kindig, a technology analyst with over a decade of experience in the private markets. She’s now the co-founder of IO fund which specialises ...

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#68 - Ekaterina Daminova - Gemini Custody&Decentralised Finance from 2021-06-17T07:00

On this show, I welcome Katrina Daminova, part of the Business Development team at Gemini. Gemini is one of the principal companies in the digital assets space with a very popular exchange and c...

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#67 - Diego Parrilla - Anti-Bubbles, Gold's Perfect Storm&Opportunities From The End Of Peak Oil from 2021-06-10T07:00

Welcome to Opto Sessions where we interview the top traders and investors from around the world uncovering their secrets to success.

Today I have the pleasure of welcoming Macro invest...

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#66 - Frédérique Carrier - RBC's Head of Investment Strategy on Her Global Market Outlook from 2021-06-03T08:00

Frédérique Carrier is Managing Director and Head of Investment Strategy at RBC Wealth Management; she heads up the firm’s London equity desk and formulates equity strategy for the UK & Europ...

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#65 - Neil Howe - Millennials, Secular Investing&'The Fourth Turning" from 2021-05-27T07:00

In a bumper episode, I speak to Neil Howe, Managing Director of Demographics at Hedgeye. Neil is a renowned authority on social change, an acclaimed bestselling author, and America’s leading thi...

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#64 - Matt Hougan - Crypto Index Investing, Decentralised Finance&How to Add Crypto to a Portfolio from 2021-05-24T07:00

Today I welcome Matt Hougan, the Chief Investment Officer at Bitwise Asset Management which has created the world's largest crypto index fund. Bitwise is the leading provider of rules-based...

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#63 - Jon Maier - Model Portfolios, Transitory Inflation&Gauging Your Risk Profile from 2021-05-20T07:00

Jon Maier is currently Chief Investment Officer at Global X. The highly respected provider of a range of interesting ETF products such as LIT (the Lithium & Battery Tech ETF) as well as mode...

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#62 - James Davolos - The Inflation ETF, Dollar Debasement&'Predictive Attributes' from 2021-05-13T07:00

James Davolos is a Portfolio Manager and Research Analyst at Horizon Kinetics. The New York-based asset manager and investment advisory firm manage over $4.5bn, an established industry presence ...

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#61 - Alan Brochstein - Investing in Legal&Medical Cannabis from 2021-05-06T07:00

This week I have the pleasure of introducing Alan Brochstein who’s known as the leading Financial Analyst dedicated to the Cannabis industry.

Alan spent decades on the inside of the in...

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#60 - Damien Bisserier - Ray Dalio's Bridgewater&The Risk-Parity Approach from 2021-04-29T07:00

Damien is a Managing Partner and Co-Chief Investment Officer at ARIS - Advanced Research Investment Solutions - a $19 billion investment advisor. Damien has over 19 years of experience advising ...

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#59 - Mark Yusko - #2.1 Quadrillion, Digital Assets&Being Early in Innovation from 2021-04-22T07:00

Today I welcome Mark Yusko, the Founder, CEO & Chief Investment Officer at Morgan Creek Capital Management and Managing Partner at Morgan Creek Digital Assets.

He currently manages ...

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#58 - Ben Goldsmith - The Green Industrial Revolution&Investing in Sustainability from 2021-04-15T07:00

Ben Goldsmith is an environmentalist and sustainability-focused investment pioneer. Founder and CEO of London-listed investment firm Menhaden, Ben, and the team focus their attention on the them...

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#57 - Angela Chang Newell - Chamath Palihapitiya's Emerging Managers Class of 2021 from 2021-04-08T07:00

Angela Chang Newell is a portfolio manager at Social Capital. As many of our listeners will know, Social Capital is the brainchild of Chamath Palihapitiya – a billionaire and Twitter influencer ...

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#56 - Lyn Alden - Network effects, Bitcoin&Finding Quality, Undervalued Stocks from 2021-04-01T07:00

On Friday 19th March I spoke to Lyn Alden, founder of Lyn Alden Investment Strategy. Lyn has been conducting investment research in various public and private capacities for over 15 yea...

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#55 - Mish Schneider - Stagflation, The Commodity Supercycle&Bitcoin Vs Gold from 2021-03-29T07:00

Hello everyone, Ed Gotham here, and welcome to Opto Sessions where we interview the top traders and investors from around the world uncovering their secrets to success.

In this episode...

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#54 - Justin Onuekwusi - Justifying Fees in a'Zero-Fee World'&Cross-Asset Allocation in 2021 from 2021-03-25T07:00

Justin Onuekwusi is Head of Retail Multi-Asset Funds at Legal & General Investment Management. The Legal and General group is one of the world’s biggest and most successful insurers and asse...

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#53 - Adam Robinson - Outsmarting the Market, Systems&'The Great Game' from 2021-03-18T07:00

Today I have the delight of introducing Adam Robinson, someone I consider a mentor, an incredible thinker who has a unique but masterful way of looking at the market and how it operates.
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#52 - Howard Lindzon - SPAC Attack, Collectibles&$1.9 Trillion Stimulus from 2021-03-14T07:00

We’ve got Howard Lindzon from Phoenix Arizona on the show today. He’s the founder and managing partner at Social Leverage, an early-stage seed investment fund who’s stand-out investments include...

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#51 - Jonah Lupton - Investing in innovation from 2021-03-11T07:00

On the podcast today we have entrepreneur and growth stock investor Jonah Lupton. He’s nurtured his own community of over 500,000 stock market enthusiasts with a very popular substack email list...

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#50 - Jay Jacobs - Lithium, Clean Tech, Genomics&the Benefits of Investing in Themes from 2021-03-04T07:00

On Friday 12th February I spoke to Jay Jacobs, the Head of Research & Strategy at Global X. Global X is an innovative provider of thematic ETFs – an industry segment that shot to prominence ...

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#49 - Jesse Felder - Oil vs. Renewables, Bitcoin bulls&Rampant speculation from 2021-02-25T07:00

Jesse Felder makes his second appearance on Opto Sessions, having made his debut with Ed back in October. Jesse began his professional career at Bear, Stearns & Co. and later co-founded a mu...

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#48 - Jeff Ross - The Opportunity in Bitcoin&The'FILMS'Equity Model from 2021-02-18T07:00

This week we’ve got Dr Jeff Ross who is both a radiologist and the founder of a successful hedge fund Vailshire Capital Management which utilises an innovative “all-weather,” full-cycle portfoli...

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#47 Trevor Neil - GameStop, Average Joe's vs. Big Money&The Madness of Crowds from 2021-02-11T07:00

Today I welcome back Trevor Neil, a trader for over 50 years having started out trading commodities with Merrill Lynch in the mid 1970’s. We first spoke in April last year, and Trevor has since ...

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#46 Rob Koyfman - Koyfin. The Ultimate Analytics Tool for Stocks from 2021-02-04T07:00

Today I’ve had the pleasure of interviewing Rob Koyfman, a former wall st veteran and founder and CEO of Koyfin. Koyfin is a financial data and analytics platform for researching stocks and unde...

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#45 Steve Hanke - A 79% Return, Advising President Reagan&Taming Hyperinflation from 2021-01-28T07:00

Steve Hanke is a professor of applied economics at The Johns Hopkins University and senior fellow at the Cato Institute. Over four decades Hanke has advised dozens of world leaders from Presiden...

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#44 Trevor Neil - Exclusive: The RRG UK Momentum+ from 2021-01-21T07:00

This is a special episode with Trevor Neil who gives us exclusive insight into a new tradable product CMC Markets has developed with his guidance - The RRG UK Momentum+

Trevor is an ex...

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#43 Julius de Kempenaer - RRGs: The Secret Weapon in an Investor's Armoury from 2021-01-14T07:00

Julius de Kempenaer is the creator of Relative Rotation Graphs™. RRGs, for short, enable investors to distill the relative strength of hundreds, and even thousands of securities, into a single p...

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#42 Rob Arnott - Contrarian Investing,'Nowcasting'&the Strategies Behind $145bn in Assets from 2021-01-07T07:00

Rob Arnott is the founder and chairman of Research Affiliates. As of September 2020, $145 billion in assets were managed worldwide using investment strategies developed by Arnott’s firm.
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Opto Special: 8 Takeaways from 2020 - Jim Rogers, Camillo, Schwager&More from 2020-12-31T07:00

Welcome to a special edition of the Opto Sessions podcast, Ed and I have identified our favourite episodes from what has been an unprecedented year for global stock markets. We’ve narrowed it do...

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End of Year Trailer (Happy Christmas) from 2020-12-24T07:00

Opto Sessions is off for our holiday break (Merry Christmas, by the way)

We just wanted to say a big thank you to everyone who has listened to the show this year and that we’ll be back in ...

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#40 - Keith McCullough - Hedgeye's CEO on the GIP model, Quads&Risk ranges from 2020-12-17T07:00

Today I welcome Keith McCullogh, the founder of hedgeye risk management which is a no-excuses provider of real-time investment research and a premier online financial media company. Keith and hi...

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#39 - Frank E. Holmes - Crypto Mining, The Yellow Metal&the JETS ETF from 2020-12-10T07:00

Frank E. Holmes is CEO and Chief Investment Officer of U.S. Global Investors. Under Frank’s direction, the company has exceeded all expectations in the highly-competitive ETF market, having laun...

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# 38 - David Mazza - Direxion Thematic ETFs - Moonshot innovators, Remote healthcare&more from 2020-12-03T07:00

David Mazza is the managing Director and Head of Product at Direxion, a well-known provider of ETFs and Mutual funds. As head of product David leads the research and development of new products ...

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# 37 - Michael A. Gayed - 50% Returns in 2020, Risk-On Risk-Off,&the RORO ETF from 2020-11-26T07:00

Michael A. Gayed is Portfolio Manager at Toroso Investments, a company with $5 billion AUM. Michael manages the ATAC Rotation fund, which has returned roughly 50% this year, an extremely impress...

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#36 - Einstein of Wall Street - The New York Stock Exchange's Most Iconic Broker from 2020-11-19T07:00

Peter Tuchman has spent over 35 years on Wall Street, making him one of the most experienced brokers on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Two white sprouts of hair coupled with a larger-...

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#35 - Unknown Market Wizards - The Unicorn Sniper, Penny Stocks&Being Early from 2020-11-12T07:00

Jack Schwager is back again, Author of the well renowned Market Wizards series. We’re here to celebrate the launch of his latest release - Unknown Market Wizards - by digging into a couple of th...

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POST ELECTION SPECIAL - JC Parets - The themes to watch from 2020-11-06T16:00

This is a US election special where I have the pleasure of talking to JC Parets the founder of allstarcharts about price action and opportunities he’s seeing in the market today.

As JC...

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#33 - Morgan Housel - The Psychology of Money: Timeless lessons on wealth, greed,&happiness. from 2020-11-05T07:00

This week I spoke to Morgan Housel. Morgan is a partner at the Collaborative Fund – a firm responsible for over $300 million - a former columnist at The Motley Fool and The Wall Street Journal, ...

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#32 - Jesse Felder - Teslas vampire squid&The return of Black Gold from 2020-10-29T07:00

Today I welcome Jesse Felder, Founder of the Felder Report. Jesse began his professional career at Bear Stearns and later co-founded a multi-billion-dollar hedge fund in Santa Monica, California...

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#31 - Denny Fish - A $5.4 Billion Fund, The Inflection Election&Favourite Tech Innovators from 2020-10-22T07:00

This week I spoke to Denny Fish, Portfolio Manager at Janus Henderson, an asset manager responsible for £272.5 billion of client money. Denny manages Janus's Global Technology and Innovatio...

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#30 - Peter Brandt - Classical Chart Patterns, The Pareto Principle&Corruptible US Dollars from 2020-10-15T07:00

This week we welcome Peter Brandt on the show, a renowned trader and founder of the factor LLC which is a proprietary trading firm. He’s also a prominent author in the trading space with two hig...

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#29 - 50pips - Positioning for the US Election, Market flows&Removing your bias from 2020-10-08T07:00

Welcome to another episode of Opto Sessions. I’m Ed Gotham and today we’ve got the pleasure of inviting 50pips back on the show for a deep dive on the markets and price action.

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#28 - Chris Camillo - Turning $20k Into $30 Million from 2020-10-01T09:00

Today I’m talking to Chris Camillo, Founder of Dumb Money and an investor that’s turned $20k into over $30 million, and counting.

Having led and founded a series of successful ...

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#27 - Andrew Thrasher - Market Breadth, Sector rotation strategies and the US election from 2020-09-24T07:00

I’m Ed Gotham, your host today and I have the pleasure of introducing Andrew Thrasher.

Andrew Thrasher is the portfolio manager for the Financial Enhancement Group an Indiana-based ass...

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#26 - Jack Schwager - Market Wizards, Ray Dalio, Stanley Druckenmiller&Paul Tudor Jones from 2020-09-17T07:00

Our next guest needs no introduction...but I’m giving you one anyway.

Jack Schwager, Author of the hugely popular and widely acclaimed Market Wizards series. Jack is a recognised indust...

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#25 Kathryn McDonald - An ESG Chief on Sustainable Funds'$71 Billion Boom from 2020-09-10T07:00

Today, I’m welcoming Kathryn McDonald to the Opto Sessions podcast, Co-Founder of Radiant ESG. Earlier this year Kathryn and Radiant CEO Heidi Ridley left renowned Quant House, Rosenberg Equitie...

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#24 Perth Tolle - Emerging Markets: How to Invest in Freedom&Why That Excludes China from 2020-09-03T07:00

Today I was hugely lucky to speak to Perth Tolle, founder of Life + Liberty Indexes. First of all, Perth spoke to us from Houston, Texas, an area recently hit by Hurricane Laura. Luckily, Housto...

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#23 Meb Faber - Market bubbles, stock valuations and why you need a global asset allocation. from 2020-08-27T07:00

Today I welcome Meb Faber, co-founder and the Chief Investment Officer of Cambria Investment Management. Meb is the fund manager of all 11 ETFs at Cambria which includes the global momentum ETF ...

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#22 Gregory Zuckerman - The man who solved the markets&lessons from the titans of finance from 2020-08-20T07:00

Meet the one and only Gregory Zuckerman. Greg is a Special Writer at The Wall Street Journal where he talks about big financial trades, firms, and the titans of wall street.

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#21 Russ Mould - Is the'Great Rotation'Finally Here? Stocks to Watch in a New Market Cycle from 2020-08-13T07:00

Today I’m talking to Russ Mould, a prolific market pundit and Investment Research Director at AJ Bell, one of the UK’s largest investment platforms with £54.3 billion of invested assets. Russ’s ...

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#20 Michele Schneider - Gold, The Dollar, clean energy and the 6 market phases from 2020-08-06T07:00

Meet the lovely Michele Schneider. Mich is an ex commodity broker who is the co-founder of marketgauge.com where she serves as Director of Trading Rese...

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#19 Paul Markham - Inside the Mind of a $4bn Equity Manager: COVID-19&Trump vs. Biden from 2020-07-30T07:00

Today I’m talking to Paul Markham, the lead manager on over $4 billion worth of assets, as one of Newton Investment Management’s most experienced global equity managers. Newton is one of eight i...

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#18 Joachim Klement - 7 mistakes every investor makes&why Spotify should start a hedge fund from 2020-07-24T08:00

Jo Klement a mathematician and physicist turned investment strategist currently working at Liberium Capital in London where he’s focused on the equity strategy and building the ESG investment of...

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#17 Deborah Fuhr - Why is Everyone Talking About ETFs? A $6 Trillion Industry, Uncovered from 2020-07-17T07:00

Today, I’m talking to ETF aficionado Deborah Fuhr, Founder of ETFGI, the dominant player in global ETF research. Deborah took time out of her busy schedule – typically a prolific globetrotter bu...

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#16 JC Parets - New all time highs. Zoom, Docusign, Biotech, Social Media&Internet retailers from 2020-07-10T07:00

Get ready for a technical analysis masterclass with the one and only JC Parets, founder of allstarcharts.com where his motto is - 'it’s not about being right, it’s about making money.'...

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#15 Liam Vaughan -'Flash Crash': A Trading Savant, A Global Manhunt&the Most Mysterious Market Crash in History from 2020-07-03T07:00

A pre-eminent chronicler of financial crime, in 2013 Liam Vaughan led a team of reporters in the uncovering of a conspiracy to manipulate the 5 trillion dollar-a-day foreign exchange market, and...

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#14 Fahad Kamal - CMS at Kleinwort Hambros on expensive US equities&ignoring geopolitical turmoil from 2020-06-26T07:00

In this episode I converse with an expert in macroeconomics, Fahad Kamal. Fahad is Chief market strategist at Kleinwort Hambros, part of the private banking and wealth management division at Soc...

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#13 Fahmi Quadir - The 29-Year-Old Short Seller That Brought a $90 Billion Company to its Knees from 2020-06-19T07:00

Five years on from a now legendary short of Valeant Pharmaceuticals, a bet that brought a $90 billion company to its knees - and which has since been documented in the critically acclaimed Netfl...

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#12 Brendan Mulhern - Bridging the Void Between Purist Stock-Picking and Macro Economics from 2020-06-12T07:00

Newton IM is one of Bank of New York Mellon's eight investment firms, cumulatively the 7th largest asset manager in the world with $1.9 trillion assets under management. Today we were lucky...

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#11 Brian Shannon - The psychology behind technical analysis&why'Only price pays' from 2020-06-05T07:00

Brian Shannon, founder of alpha trends, will help raise your trading game as we dive deep into the psychology driving price action in the markets. Why do technical indicators work? How you can u...

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#10 Chris Kimble - A Technical Analysis Pioneer on'Smart vs Dumb'Money&The Madness of Crowds from 2020-05-29T07:00

We caught up with Chris Kimble, founder of Kimble Charting Solutions and all-round technical analysis expert. With an archive of charts committed to memory dating back to the 1700's, spotti...

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#9 William Hobbs - CIO at Barclays on Covid-19&market sentiment indicators from 2020-05-22T07:00

Today we have the great pleasure of talking to one of my favourite Opto contributors, William Hobbs. Will has over 20 years of experience in the financial sector and currently has the prominent ...

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#8 Joe Kunkle - An Options Virtuoso on Tracking Smart Money&Flexible Trading from 2020-05-15T07:00

Today we're delighted to be interviewing Joe Kunkle, or OptionsHawk to his 67,000 Twitter followers. A former Equity Analyst at Thomson Reuters, and founder of OptionsHawk.com, Joe has made...

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#7 Ivanoff - The momentum 50&How to protect and grow capital during corrections from 2020-05-08T07:00

Today we’re lucky to have Ivan Ivanov (aka Ivanhoff) on the show, a portfolio manager at Zor capital who has successfully been trading equities & options for over 18 years.

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#6 Jim Rogers - Investing Legend on"Worst market crash in my lifetime"&Quantum's 4200% Return! from 2020-05-01T07:00

We're delighted to be interviewing Jim Rogers, investment legend and co-founder of the Quantum Fund, that famously returned 4200% over just 10 years. Rogers reveals the long/short unconstra...

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#5 50pips - The pro trader reveals how to utilise trading'zones'&analyse price action. from 2020-04-24T07:00

Opto welcomes the highly esteemed 50pips, a trader with a gift for analysing price action. We’ll be talking about how to find the major price levels or zones to watch when analysing charts. You’...

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#4 Patrick Reid - How FX impacts stocks by an ex NY hedge fund trader from 2020-04-17T07:00

In this episode, we're delighted to be interviewing ex new york hedge fund trader Patrick Reid. We discuss 'king dollar' and how it influences equity prices, Patrick's swing ...

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#3 Trevor Neil - A V-shaped market revival, the next big thing, and'becoming an algo' from 2020-04-10T07:00

We caught up with Trevor Neil, technical analysis authority, fund manager, and 40-year stock market veteran. Trevor has trained some of the top investment firms in Europe during his time at Beta...

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#2 Alessandra Sollberger - The Biotech boom, Crypto inflection, and why Impact investing is here to stay from 2020-04-03T07:00

Alessandra Sollberger is the founder of Top Tier impact, a global private network of impact investors and entrepreneurs. However, Alessandra’s expertise reach far beyond the ESG space, an author...

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Trailer: Introducing Opto Sessions from 2020-03-26T14:00

Opto Sessions brings you in-depth interviews with the best minds in finance, from hedge fund managers to options traders, uncovering their secrets to success.

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Trailer: Introducing Opto Sessions from 2020-03-26T14:00

Opto Sessions brings you in-depth interviews with the best minds in finance, from hedge fund managers to options traders, uncovering their secrets to success.

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Trailer: Introducing Opto Sessions from 2020-03-26T14:00

Opto Sessions brings you in-depth interviews with the best minds in finance, from hedge fund managers to options traders, uncovering their secrets to success.

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