Odds on Open

Ex-Goldman MD: "Credit Markets Move in Step Functions"

Geoffrey Williams spent more than a decade at Goldman Sachs, where he traded structured products through the 2008 financial crisis and later co-ran the CMBS trading busin

Ex-Lehman Trader: AI Won't Give You Edge

Checkout Flux 4.0 here: https://www.flux.live/flux4/index.html In this episode of Odds on Open, Alpaca Co-Founder and CEO Yoshi Yokokawa breaks down the changing micros

Retail Trader vs. Hedge Fund Manager: Where Is the Real Alpha?

Checkout Flux 4.0 here: https://www.flux.live/flux4/index.html Chris Camillo and Tom Costello go head-to-head on Odds on Open's first every debate episode. They answer a

Ex-IMC Semiconductors Quant: AI Is Good Enough to Beat the S&P 500

Lihong Wang spent his career as a discretionary options trader at IMC, one of the world's largest market makers, trading semiconductor volatility on names like Nvidia, AM

Hedge Fund Manager Alix Pasquet: How Small Funds Can Outsmart Multi-Managers

Checkout Flux 4.0 here: https://www.flux.live/flux4/index.html Alix Pasquet, hedge fund manager and Managing Partner at Prime Macaya Capital, breaks down how fundamental

⁠Greed Makes Markets: Market Making From First Principles With an HFT Quant

How does market making actually work? In this lecture, former high-frequency trader Annanay Kapila (Flow Traders, Tower Research Capital; founder & CEO of QFEX) breaks do

22-Year-Old Hedge Fund Manager: “Hedge funds are the least sexy business in the world”

Checkout Flux 4.0 here: https://www.flux.live/flux4/index.html Noah Kann is 22, running his third firm, and managing capital raised from some of the wealthiest families i

He Started a Quant Fund in His Dorm. Now He's Building the Brokerage for Everything.

Checkout Flux 4.0 here: https://www.flux.live/flux4/index.html Lucas Schuermann started a market-neutral quant fund in his Columbia dorm room, trading stat arb across FX

Inside the Billionaire-Backed Prediction Markets Hedge Fund

Checkout Flux 4.0 here: https://www.flux.live/flux4/index.htmlCamilo Saravia is the founder of BlueWalker Capital, a systematic hedge fund trading prediction markets — an

World's #1 Oil Hedge Fund Manager: How I Made 200% While Everyone Lost 60%

Checkout Flux 4.0 here: https://www.flux.live/flux4/index.htmlJosh Young (Bison Capital) on Energy Alpha, Deep Value, and Activism in Small-Cap Oil & Gas: Josh Young runs

The Strategy Behind Asia’s $6 Billion Quant Fund: Quantedge

Checkout Flux 4.0 here: https://www.flux.live/Suhaimi Zainul-Abidi is the CEO of Quantedge, the Singapore-based systematic hedge fund that has compounded at roughly 20% n

Ex-Balyasny PM: “Automation will increase demand for hedge fund talent.”

In this episode of Odds on Open, former Balyasny Asset Management (BAM) quantamental portfolio manager and Imply founder Ying Hua breaks down how top multi-manager hedge

~100% Returns in 2025, No Losing Year Since 2008: Erik Smolinski on Edge for Retail Trader Edge

In this episode of *Odds on Open*, hedge fund risk manager and derivatives trader Erik Smolinski deconstructs the structural mechanics of alpha generation, portfolio cons

Ex-Citadel PM: All Hedge Fund Failures Are Because of One Reason - Rich Falk Wallace

In this episode of Odds on Open, we dissect the mechanics of institutional alpha generation with Rich Falk-Wallace, founder of Arcana and former portfolio manager at Cita

Ex-Two Sigma Quant: You Should Bet Against Bullish Analysts

Apply to Onyx’s trading event here: https://www.onyxcapitalgroup.com/uni-studentsIn this episode of Odds on Open, former Two Sigma quant Omer Cedar joins host Ethan to de

Ex-Citadel Quant on Trading the Most Asymmetric Market - Neel Somani

Apply to Onyx’s Junior Tech Graduate Scheme here: https://verichain.io/apply/0aa1debe-ac6c-452f-9421-da6cbf4a3e8cIn this episode of Odds on Open, former Citadel quant res

LTCM Co-founder Victor Hagani: “Taking Risk Is Always a Negative.”

Apply to Onyx’s Junior Tech Graduate Scheme here: https://verichain.io/apply/0aa1debe-ac6c-452f-9421-da6cbf4a3e8cIn this episode of Odds on Open, we sit down with Victor

Quant Hedge Fund Partner: Raising Capital Is Harder Than Generating Returns

Apply to Onyx’s Junior Tech Graduate Scheme here: https://verichain.io/apply/0aa1debe-ac6c-452f-9421-da6cbf4a3e8cDeWayne Louis (Versor Investments) returns to break down

Ex-WorldQuant Head of Data Strategy: Quants “Don’t Care About the Stock Market”

In this episode of Odds on Open, we deconstruct the evolution of alternative data and alpha generation with Matt Ober, former Head of Data Strategy at WorldQuant and Chie

The Secret to Uncorrelated Alpha in Crypto - Leigh Drogen on Starkiller Capital’s Sharpe Ratio of 4

Apply to Onyx’s Junior Tech Graduate Scheme here: https://verichain.io/apply/0aa1debe-ac6c-452f-9421-da6cbf4a3e8cLeigh Drogen, CIO of Starkiller Capital, joins the podcas