Tim Biggam Interview - Chat With Traders Podcast Episode 016 - Investing Shortcuts

Tim Biggam Interview – Chat With Traders Podcast Episode 016

Tim Biggam used to only take a few minutes to execute an order when he first entered the world of trading in 1985 on the floor of the CBOE.

 

Tim experienced the full force of the infamous 1987 crash and survived. This experience made him appreciate how important of correct position sizing is after seeing so many traders lose a lot of money.

 

During this interview, Tim dives into position sizing and why it is really important to get it right.

He also explains some of the options related terminology and how he generates trade ideas by using scanning technology, and much more.

What’s Covered in This Interview:

  • What Tim felt like learning from the pit versus learning how to trade from the internet.
  • What the role of a market maker is and how it has changed over the years since he’s been in the trading business, as well as why it’s more advantageous to being a market trader.
  • Tim dives into where he finds an edge while trading options how that technology slowly taking over and pit action is fading out.
  • Tim gives listeners as summary of what an unusual options activity is, which is an increasingly popular term. He shows you how this can lead to really great trading opportunities along with a recent example.
  • Why Tim puts a lot of emphasis on position sizing, and how traders blow out because they are really wrong, not only because they are just merely wrong.
  • Tim gives a summary on the increasingly popular term – unusual options activity. Along with a recent example, and how his can lead to great trading opportunities.

 

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Aaron Fifield

Author Aaron Fifield

Aaron Fifield is a developing trader, and host of the Chat With Traders podcast. Each week he interviews successful traders and financial thought-leaders to extract their best insights, which is listened to by thousands. On the trading front, Aaron is learning how to code and is pursuing algorithmic trading systems.

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