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Matthew agreed to be interviewed by his C2 colleague Roman on one condition: that Roman would be required to ask interesting, "hard" questions -- not just corporate B.S. like, "How did you get to be so great?"
Roman challenges Matthew on a few confrontational topics: Why does C2 allow crappy trading strategies? Why doesn't it impose some kind of "quality" standards on strategies or strategy creators -- or, at a minimum, why doesn't it filter out "young" strategies that don't have long track records?
Matthew answers all of these questions, and more, and -- in doing so -- explains why he thinks "young strategies" are important, why C2 sometimes is not allowed to build the best product it can imagine, why hedge funds might be "lucky monkeys," why one can't "have a conversation" with regulators, and why the Tom Cruise movie "Live Die Repeat" makes Matthew think about his life-long project of building Collective2.

Toronto-based Collective2 trading strategist James Leigh believes that, as a trader, you absolutely need to let most opportunities pass you by. Most traders believe that they need to do everything, when the opposite is true. "Slow down and think long-term" Leigh urges. "It's said the deal of a lifetime comes around every 90 days".
James Leigh's popular C2 strategy, Correlation Factor, is a highly backtested sector rotation strategy that picks 5 sectors of favorable strength and stability (US equities not including energy and minerals); trends across the various sectors are updated daily where upon detecting a 'stale' trend it rotates into something more favorable. 
In episode 12 of Top Trader Radio, we dive into why James believes his strategy has outperformed the market, the benefits of a sector rotational strategy, and how to keep your losses at a minimum. 

"Everyone wants to invest in something long-term...but, before it becomes a good long-term trend it needs to be a good short-term trend."

It took a high school business teacher's stock market competition to inspire the interest of Danny Merkel, a portfolio manager and founder of the 'The Momentum of Now' C2 trading strategy. Danny's successful 10-year career in trading (mostly individual stocks of a wide variety, across many sectors) is methodological and rules-based: cut losers, let winners ride. 
In Episode 11 of Top Trader Radio, Charley explores Danny's rigorous systematic approach to trading, the best advice he's ever received, the benefits of varying stocks across many sectors, and even dives into the future of Bitcoin from a trader's perspective. At the end of the day, Danny says, you need to learn to think in terms of the next 1,000 trades; position sizing and a little perspective is everything.  
"When it comes to Bitcoin, you need an exit strategy. If you don't manage the risk, it could end up really bad."
Danny Merkel Trade Leader, The Momentum of Now
Danny Merkel is a trader from Toronto, Canada with over 10-years of experience. He applies Trend Following strategies to individual stocks and ETFs. You can connect with him on Twitter or follow his 3 strategies on Collective2.

This week our host Charley Wright welcomes David Stephens, a Silicon Valley software director and C2 trade leader to the podcast to discuss his background, start in trading, and his popular long-only strategy SystematicBlue SP500.  David prefers indices over individual stocks, an approach that he believes to be of much lower risk with less dependency on ‘market noise’. It’s important, David says, that every trader find what works for them. 
According to David, whose day job has him working regularly with the likes of Nasa, BMW and Boeing, the amount of trading advice out there can be overwhelming. At the end of the day, be it mean reversion or price action, nobody can argue with what is working for you. 

Four years ago, Richard Metzger went from designing the logic that goes into cell phones, computers and electronics to designing trading algorithms for his own venture AlgorithmicTrading.net. The results in just a short time have been impressive. 
In Episode 9 of Top Trader Radio, Richard and host Charley Wright cover a broad range of topics from why to avoid perfection to how to use inversely correlated instruments to hedge. Richard has algorithms for a variety of market conditions but within each strategy he advocates for simplicity when possible. 
Richard offers one of his marquee strategies under the name Swing Trader ES TY on a privately branded Collective2 site. 
"Always remember, don't let the perfect become the enemy of the sufficient ... because back-testing is only a small part of the battle. I've coded over 300 algorithms, almost all of which did poorly when applied to live trades. A few stood out as gems and those are what we offer to our customers today."
Richard Metzger Founder, Lead Developer, Quant Algorithms LLC
Richard spent over 10 years as a logic designer engineer at Fortune 500 companies including Hewlett-Packard, Intel, and Qualcomm.
In 2013, after trading on the side during his entire career, he founded AlgorithmicTrading.net (now under parent company Quant Algorithms) to capitalize on his expertise in algorithm development, finite state machine coding/design and advanced mathematics.
Richard has a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering with a computer science emphasis from Boise State. 

GD Singh is CFA Institute member and Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst who, along with his team of research contributors that all boast similar credentials, manage dozens of strategies, each with a different risk/return profile designed to cater to a specific type of investor.  
GD founded HedgedEquity in 2015 to provide access to signals from his portfolio of strategies that specialize in low volatility, alpha seeking equities, ETFs and futures strategies that are non-correlated to the traditional equity and bond indices. 
Episode 8 of Top Trader Radio features host Charley Wright interviewing GD about the approach, market and personal philosophies, and style that drive his investment process.  On Collective2, you can find his strategies under the user NTLLC including Emini Short Term, Allcap Stocks Long Only, and SP Swing Trading among others.
GD’s proprietary multi-instrument, multi-time frame trading strategies have been published on Collective2 since 2015.Our fundamental belief is centered around the fact that markets are inherently inefficient and often create pockets of opportunities for astute investors.








GD SinghFounder,  Lead Portfolio Manager, HedgedEquity
GD Singh is the founder of  HedgedEquity.com, a proprietary research entity that develops sophisticated ‘model’ portfolio strategies for the global investment community.  GD is a Chartered Alternative Investment analyst with over 20 years of trading and investment experience. He is also a standing member of the CFA institute.
Born and raised in India, most of his prior experience was in technology and software companies having sold his first company at a young age of 22. He transitioned to managing his personal portfolios several years ago and decided to bring his strategies to the global community via his newly created venture – HedgedEquity.com. Mr. Singh is the lead portfolio manager and is assisted by a team of 6 CFA/CAIA charterholders, who help him in his research efforts.