Musician Turned Trader Trains Algos to Find Unicorns · Garrett Drinon

EP 277 | Musician Turned Trader Trains Algos to Find Unicorns | Garrett Drinon
The lure of the markets seduced a successful musician into full time trading at a prop firm. Collaborating with other traders, Garrett Drinon learned the market signals, and other ingredients which go into great setups. Wanting to expand his reach, he uses his programming skills to create new algos which help him and his colleagues find the Unicorns and manage a larger portfolio than he could normally handle.
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Time Stamps
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0:00 Introduction
6:30 Early trading and strategies
12:30 Typical day going to a prop firm
16:20 Reasons to get into Algo trading
20:50 What he looks for to long or short
21:00 Finding the Unicorns
27:35 Second guessing the algos
39:20 Managing the algos
45:50 Best ways to avoid curve fitting
52:30 How to determine the state of the market
1:00:00 What Garrett struggles with most
1:02:50 How to reach Garrett
Links & Resources
Twitter: / garrettdrinon
@smbcapital
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[@kirby2856]

The content from these interviews are gold. I got into trading during covid because of the social media traders and failed multiple times but when I came across this channel and started reading Jack Scwager's books, I realized what it actually took to become an actual profitable trader. Now I am actually enjoying the journey and putting in the work and finally seeing results. Thanks for the content guys!

[@lukewims8159]

1:03:55 "To be consistent is one thing, to be consistently growing is another thing."

[@hamisintunzwenimana8083]

Good Technical 1. Big Picture; Top-Down / Position Sizing 2. Quantitive / Technical Analysis

[@danielwestereng155]

YESSSSS THANK YOU VERY MUCH TEAM!

[@FrozenTundraTrader]

Such a great interview with multiple nuggets of wisdom. Ian, your interviews are getting better and better. Garrett thanks for sharing your story. Are you on Discord?

[@fiftyghoststrading8500]

This is great, thank you!

[@ztee100]

Thanks

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[@MobtacticsBruh]

Oh SHEET!!! This podcast is going to out do the other videos by 10x number of views!!

[@parkla4098]

Dry and boring. They use algos. Great. There are no real insights for the listener on this one.