This conversation included a lot of gems on risk management, position sizing, Expectancy, trading Psychology, return to risk vs. returns, and the new book. Enjoy!
Austin interviewed me on his Day Trading Show. Since he is a trader the topics were excellent. We chatted about how I manage positions when day trading. We also discussed a lot about the mental side of trading and a number of topics for younger traders trying to get going in the trading game. Enjoyed this one!
Since Richard also trades, his questions are always pertinent to the trading process. We also talked some of the concepts in The All-Weather Trader, my new book. Great interview. (6:40 Mark)
Since Richard also trades, his questions are always pertinent to the trading process. We also talked some of the concepts in The All-Weather Trader, my new book. Great interview.
Tom is interviewed by Rosanna Prestia of the Ro Show – May 8, 2023
Rosanna is an Entrepreneur herself, so the conversation was a lot about the mindset involved to take on trading the markets. We had a really interesting conversation that covered many topics.
Tom is interviewed by Michael Covel – April 24, 2023
Michael Covel is always one of my favorite Interviewers. He and I think so much alike on so many fronts, it is always fun talking to him. He gets me into a lot of non-traditional topics. (Audio podcast)
Louise is an expert in the mental side of trading and she and I talked about so many great items on the process of good trading and managing yourself. Lots of good topics in this interview.
Tom is interviewed by Charles Brown from CB3 Live in March, 2023
Charles asked me questions on specific quotes from the book and being an experienced trader himself, the questions were great. There was so much to cover, we decided to do Part 2 in May, so more to come from Charles and me.
Charles asked me more great questions on specific quotes from the book from the perspective of an experienced trader. We had a great time and the session was fantastic. This would be part two of the interview above
This was another lengthy discussion and really well done by Jacek. Available in audio download, audio streaming and video streaming.
We talked in detail about some of the topics covered in Tom’s new book, The All-Weather Trader. Since Hussein is very familiar with writing books, this one was different than most of my other interviews.
Louis and I talked in detail about some of the topics covered in Tom’s new book, The All-Weather Trader. Lot’s of great tidbits in this one.
Lots of discussion on Tom’s life in trading and lifestyle. Also touched on what new traders should concentrate on. Lots of discussion on trading psyche.
An in-depth interview of Eric Crittenden by Louis Llanes on his Market Call Show in January, 2023
Louis and Eric got into some great strategy design discussions here, with a dose of position sizing, leverage, risk, and talking through the design of Standpoint’s Multi-Asset Fund and design features of BLNDX.
This interview was fascinating as Andrew had his followers suggest great questions for me and boy were they some good ones! Mental side of trading, position size, correlation, price action versus economic data, and strategy development for up, down and sideways markets.
Concentrated on ideas for new traders on this one.
These interesting questions and their answers are linked to Stockbsessed’s Substack account
We all had a great time talking about managing risk and volatility, managing yourself, dealing with challenges and enjoying the ride.
Louis and I had a great time talking about the psychology of trading, dealing with clients, attacking risk, extreme diversification, fact vs opinion, the movie of life, volatility and risk sizing theory, Van Tharp, and more!
Tom is Interviewed by Trader Nick on his YouTube Channel in August, 2022
This video discussed the hedge fund business, position sizing, peeling off positions versus adding to positions, dealing with your unique situation in trading, building a strategy, and lots of other great topics.
This video discussed all aspects of trading: the trader’s psyche, position sizing and buy/sell engines. We tried to speculated on why global traders are more successful that domestic Indian traders. What is the secret behind trading?
A new presentation on some of the tricks that I’ve learned over the years as an All-Weather Trader to successfully navigate the volatility of the last few years. This one has a lot of good ideas!
Kevin and I have a high energy interview about markets, success and lots of other topics on 7/29/2022. Kevin studies and lives success and his podcasts cover a wide range.
Dale and I go live in an interview on 4/28/2022. We talked about lots of trading topics and had a lot of fun!
Andy is a trader himself, so these interviews always have a bit more back and forth on trading and the discussion is sometimes at a higher level. Good stuff!
Dan’s a great guy to talk with and we covered a lot of trading topics, one trader to another. Interesting listen!
A nod to veterans, conversation of the mentality of ramping up the learning curve in futures, mutual fund/etf timing, mental aspects, dealing with questions from traders.
The early years, lessons learned, mentors and lots of other tidbits in this one.
Some interesting and different questions on this one that I don’t get very often. We had fun!
We covered a lot of ground. Two engineers talking to each other about a wide range of subjects.
In a relaxed setting of Friday afternoon post market Happy Hour we cruised all over many trading topics and had a lot of fun doing it.
We had a great time talking as the summer monsoons came into our mountain area to drench us. We covered the story behind New Market Wizards, the mental side of trading, a little about this website, the books I’ve written, putting in golf, and a variety of other things. We were enjoying the ride!
We had to do this one at 11:30PM to get everyone on the same Zoom session, but it worked. Michael hit me with random questions on all sorts of topics and we discussed the background on our new book: Trend Following Mindset.
Jacek Lempart interviews Tom about trading topics from buy & pray investing to mental topics, to systems trading July, 2021
This was another lengthy discussion and really well done by Jacek. Available in audio download, audio streaming and video streaming.
This conversation went so long we had to do it in two parts. Total run time 1 hour and 57 minutes, but since Jason is a Commodity Trader, he asked a lot of great questions.
This discussion tells the story of the origin of the Standpoint “All-Weather” concept and the subsequent BLNDX fund that evolved from those initial discussions.
This discussion ranged from stories about starting out in trading, meeting Brenda, meeting, becoming involved in Standpoint Asset Management as the Chairman, and a variety of other fun stories on Tom’s life in the investment world.
This discussion ranged from stories about investment psychology, examples of markets that look like they have a bad return/risk going forward to why investors would have a hard time doing this themselves. We also discussed how we met each other decades ago and why we are so in tune with each other’s trading philosophies. Disclaimer: I’m the Chairman of Standpoint these days.
This interview had a lot of discussion of a complete trading strategy requirement and the use of automation in dealing with volatility/risk in the markets. Part interview, part webinar.
Austin is a fun interviewer. We had a great time talking trading on a variety of subjects.
One of my long-standing trader friends has a great conversation with Jeff on traditional diversification versus what makes sense in today’s situation. Disclaimer: I am Chairman of the Board of Eric company, Standpoint Alternative Investment Management.
Eric is one of the smartest, thoughtful traders and trading philosophers I’ve run into in my days. I agreed to chair the board of Standpoint and invest in the company, because of Eric’s involvement. I’ve known him for a few decades now and always love listening to his simple, easy-to-understand analogies. Great interview!
Vivek, who specializes in algo trading, and Tom have share an in depth tete-a-tete on a variety of topics, particularly on starting out as a new traders, some of the keys to successs in trading and other trading topics.
Khaled and Tom have an in depth discussion of dealing with yourself as a trader, overcoming fear, improving self esteem and lots of stories on how Tom found his mental balance as a trader.
Meb and Tom talk everything from buy/sell, position sizing, mental aspects of trading to fly fishing and life. A very relaxed interview with Meb and fun for both of us. We could have talked for hours!
Austin and Tom explore how Tom got from Chemical Engineering to money management, risk and volatility management, cryptos, foreign exchange, the mental side of trading and a variety of other trading topics.
An hour of Eric’s brilliant discussion of typical investor psychology and how to help investors take on investments they really want, but for some cognitive dislocation, miss out on some sensible choices. Eric is one of the traders out there that I’ve known for decades and I love the way he thinks. (Disclaimer: I am Chairman of the Board of Eric’s firm, Standpoint Alternative Asset Management)
Almost an hour and a half of reminiscing about meeting, the Peak Performance Seminars Tom did with Van in the 90’s, the Jack Schwager interview for The New Market Wizards, trading topics and so many other stories. A fun trip down memory lane. More information on Van Tharp and the Tharp Institute at: Van Tharp Institute.
A talk Tom gave to Clarkson University’s CU-Live on identifying various risks and managing them during the coronavirus shutdown.
Over an hour on trading, position sizing for volatility and the mental side of trading during the coronavirus market shutdown.
A short interview with Ameer Rosic, a podcaster with a YouTube channel followed by many traders called Ameer Approved. March 31st, 2020 during the virus market.
A short webinar recording showing the use of TrendSpider in developing a “new and improved” method of hedging my stock portfolio.
A short webinar recording showing the use of TrendSpider.
An copy of the Aaron Fifield interview published by a friend, Steve Burns of NewTraderU.
An interview I did with John a while back
Finishing up a fun interview with Caroline Stephen, a financial journalist in Australia
A second interview with Caroline Stephen, a financial journalist in Australia – Part 1
A second interview with Caroline Stephen, a financial journalist in Australia – Part 1
An interesting interview done live from India and Scottsdale via wonderful technology. LearnApp offers many course in variety of topics.
A two hour discussion of all sorts of topics related to my career, Trendstat, Enjoytheride.world and other things. Available in Polish language as well.
Interview entitled The Traders’ Psyche: Tom Basso
Interview took place in January 1997. The article is entitled: Tom Basso: Objective Observer
A fun interview with @Covel talking about social media, awareness, self worth and other things that important to trading success.
An informative class on the math behind sizing your initial and ongoing trading positions using risk and volatility. Original class was live to 4,700 LearnApp subscribers in January, 2019.
A talk Tom gave to Clarkson University’s Annie Clarkson Society on risk and volatility. Original talk was in Potsdam, NY in 2014 to the Annie Clarkson Society and Friends.
A link to the entire Algo convention talks. (about 25 hours worth for $199 to the convention organizers – Dravyaniti Consulting). This is a talk Tom gave kicking off the April, 2019 Algo Convention in Mumbai, India that included buy/sell, position-sizing, portfolio allocation, mental side of using algos and other trading topics.
In September, 2022, released in June, 2023. I really enjoyed this interview. With a value investor and a trend follower asking me questions about trading from every angle, this one had some great discussion and ran longer than normal. Filled with some good topics. Enjoy!
In April, 2023. Some great topics coved in this one. Leo is fun to chat with and we talked history, trading strategy, diversifying into multiple markets, time periods and strategies, filling potholes in your track record, and not restricting your strategy’s robustness. Have fun listening to this one!