Podcasts

Interviews since 2015 with proprietary traders, quants, market makers and independent traders across every asset class. Consistently the most recommended trading podcast; the back catalogue is a free education in how professionals think.

Andrew Swanscott's interviews with systematic and algorithmic traders about strategy design, testing and execution. Aimed at rules-based traders; less about psychology, more about process.

Niels Kaastrup-Larsen's long-form conversations with trend followers, CTAs and macro managers, plus weekly systematic-investing roundtables. Institutional in tone; best for traders interested in trend following and managed futures.

Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway interviewing the people who actually run the plumbing of markets: repo desks, commodity traders, market makers, economists. The best podcast for understanding how a market mechanism works.

Erik Townsend's weekly interviews with macro investors and strategists on rates, energy, the dollar and commodities, with free chart decks. Skews bearish and contrarian; useful for hearing the case against consensus.

Former CME floor trader Anthony Crudele interviewing futures traders, prop-firm founders and platform builders. One of the few podcasts focused squarely on retail futures trading.

Laura Shin's crypto news and interview show, one of the longest-running and most journalistically rigorous in the sector. Covers exchanges, regulation, hacks and protocol debates without shilling tokens.

Ben Felix and Cameron Passmore discussing the academic evidence on investing, with frequent guest researchers. Not a trading podcast, but the best place to learn what the data says about active trading before you commit to it.

Michael Batnick and Ben Carlson of Ritholtz Wealth chatting weekly about markets, investor behaviour and financial media. Light, sensible and good for context on what the average investor is doing.

Patrick O'Shaughnessy's interviews with investors, founders and operators. More investing than trading, but episodes with quants, market makers and allocators are directly relevant to how edge is found and lost.