Liquidity Goblin joins the Insilico Terminal Podcast to talk about his path from TradFi HFT into crypto, how he approaches DeFi, arbitrage, venue selection, and the kinds of inefficiencies smaller traders can still exploit. The episode covers market structure, manual vs systematic trading, risk management, points farming, meme coins, prediction markets, and where real edge still exists in crypto.

00:00 Intro, Liquidity Goblin background and HFT → crypto transition

08:05 How HFT actually works: signals, arbitrage and cross-venue edges

16:31 Trading mindset: forecasts, horizons and avoiding thesis drift

25:06 Systems vs discretion: monitoring models, manual overrides and execution

33:15 DeFi strategies: flash loans, MEV evolution and carry trades

41:35 Venue selection: finding “dumb flow” and inefficient markets

49:00 Risk management: sizing, counterparty risk and portfolio construction

58:33 Retail vs quant, meme coins, and final advice on making it in trading

Insilico Terminal Podcast Episode 28 - Liquidity Goblin