The Quant / Financial Engineering Podcast

Falling Knives with Prince Owusu-Ansah (MFE) by Patrick J Zoro

Justin Rubnerin, an MFE-backed quantitative finance partner at Living with Capital, discusses practical AI use in investment research. He covers using LLMs for fast data retrieval and idea debating. They compare general LLMs to programmatic tools, stress precise prompting, and emphasize learning domain craft while trusting-but-verifying AI outputs.

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Conversation covers a sharp Bitcoin price drop and whether it signals a longer crypto downtrend. They explore huge cross-exchange inefficiencies and rare arbitrage openings. Discussion touches evolving regulation and why hacks drive stricter compliance. The show digs into mining costs, recurring Bitcoin wave patterns, and tactics manipulators use to rotate profits.

Nikhil Jaisinghani, options investor and founder of Titan Strategic Income Fund with a math and economics background. He outlines why a trading philosophy matters. He warns against predictive option trading, complexity, and leverage. He explains put-selling mechanics, managing assignment, and treating options as risk management rather than forecasts.

Alexis Brown Roberts, a portfolio manager who runs a NASDAQ-listed tactical fund, shares her tactical asset-allocation approach. She discusses this year’s market volatility and tech pullbacks. She explains the case for emerging-market ETFs and cautious small-cap positioning. She covers commodity choices, gold and silver moves, and how leverage amplified recent selloffs.

Louis Pellathy is a commodity broker with a background in mathematics and data analytics. He has developed trading and price curve models for several leading Inter Dealer Brokers. He currently trades his own personal account which focuses on S&P 500 0-DTE options. Gamma Capture Intraday Volatility https://gammacapture.com/ Avaliable on Platforms NinjaTrader: https://ninjatrader.com TradingView: https://www.tradingview.com Bloomberg Terminal: https://www.bloomberg.com

Gurraj Sangha, founder of CryptoSaaS, combines his expertise in macro, quantitative finance, and crypto to deliver actionable insights. He discusses the unique approach of CryptoSaaS, focusing on quantitative models while making complex concepts accessible to a broad audience. Gurraj shares how he translates current events into trading signals and explores the narrative-driven nature of the crypto market. He also highlights how geopolitical events influence market behavior and the role of behavioral finance in understanding market sentiment.

In this insightful episode, I sit down with Edson Bope, a master’s student from Zimbabwe studying Financial Engineering in Pennsylvania, who shares his journey navigating the competitive U.S. job market in search of quantitative finance roles. Edson opens up about the unique challenges international students face, from visa constraints to cultural differences in networking. He talks about his experience attending quant conferences, participating in hackathons, and leveraging LinkedIn cold outreach to build real connections with professionals at hedge funds, banks, and prop trading firms. We dive into: • 💬 How to turn an informational interview into a genuine relationship • 📊 The importance of technical prep, including case studies, coding tests, and probability brainteasers • 💼 Why many firms prefer candidates who can “hit the ground running” and how international students can bridge that expectation gap Edson also reflects on the mental resilience required during long job hunts and shares tips that worked: from making a networking spreadsheet to sending value-driven follow-ups. Whether you’re an international student or just someone looking to break into quant, this episode is packed with practical advice, real-life stories, and a reminder that persistence pays off—even across borders.

Zuber Seth and I discussed his firm (Orchid) out of his London office. The discussion starts with Zuber's background, his foray into the hedge fund world, barista coffee, a chance accouter, lots of networking, a Math degree, London, #Qatar, a prince, #seedfunding and ultimately the creation of this AI firm aimed at #HedgeFunds to create an Autonomous analyst in order to free their time in generating Alpha.