Insilico Terminal Podcast

Knot, one of the engineers behind Insilico Terminal, joins Sokio to talk about how a degree in jazz performance and coding audio plugins turned into a career building trading systems. A TradFi systems trader told him "TA is astrology for men", so he went into arbitrage instead, running fat-finger and new-listing loops across exchanges when crypto still felt like easy mode.  We get into the FT...

Nelly joins Sokio to talk about going from on-chain trading to scalping Bitcoin perps. After a heavy loss around the April 2025 tariff selloff, he joined a trading group having never taken a perp trade, put in 14 to 16 hour days, and by November had a VWAP rotational system that worked, first in Asia and then in New York.  We get into how he trades the VWAP bands, why Asia is price action and...

FlowTrader sits down with Sokio in the studio for an IRL episode on trading a market that moves on headlines. Nine years in, from crypto-miner stocks in 2017–18 to high-leverage perps, he now keeps trades to three to five days and avoids holding exposure over the weekend.  We get into his macro framework and why debasement made gold one of his best trades, Bitcoin as an overflow bucket for ex...

Kieran Duff, systematic portfolio manager and Head of UK Growth at Darwinex, joins Sokio to talk about running a multi-strategy book across FX, metals and indices, built and managed on his own.  We get into why he quit discretionary trading, how he turns any idea into a backtest (including a Friday-red, Monday-long S&P system he dropped because it had no capacity), what BOJ intervention d...

DegentradingLSD joins Sokio to talk about going from options market making in TradFi to trading crypto, starting with a flat Deribit vol surface and the GBTC discount during the Genesis unwind.  We get into why keeping money is harder than making it, how much cash to hold, and why half or quarter Kelly is easier to live with than full Kelly. He explains why he thinks retail's edge sits in tra...

QuantXBT joins Sokio to discuss building a crypto HFT business, finding his first BitMEX–Binance arbitrage, and why JavaScript wasn't the bottleneck people expected.  We cover shrinking edges, the move toward mid-frequency trading, exchange risk, collecting market data, and the role of discretion in automated systems. He also explains why forced trading creates opportunities and why being rig...

Arb joins Sokio to explain how reading the details led him to a Tari arbitrage and a series of oil trades on Hyperliquid. The conversation moves from finding temporary market inefficiencies and knowing when to walk away to using AI for data collection, research, and building trading systems. He also shares his case for owning compute, why systems thinking matters, and the opportunities he sees for...

Trader Morin turned more than 18 months at breakeven into a repeatable trading process built around ranges, mean reversion, order flow and strict risk management.  He explains how he plans trades days in advance, builds price-action and footprint execution playbooks, sizes positions using confluence, and distinguishes reaccumulation from redistribution. We also discuss surviving the unprofita...

Benoit Dubosson, better known as Beni the Boss, joins the Insilico Terminal Podcast for his first interview about crypto. He explains how he built a trading career around markets other people ignored—from Cryptopia arbitrage and onchain deposit signals to FTX funding trades, the Luna collapse, TradeOgre market making, and strange dislocations across CFD brokers and fintech apps.  Beni also ta...

Parker, co-founder of perps.fun, joins the Insilico Terminal Podcast to discuss building the first HIP-3 launchpad and opening Hyperliquid market creation to teams outside the existing deployer structure.  We cover why perps.fun pivoted from building a trading terminal, how new markets are vetted, fee sharing and market ownership, exotic and long-tail perps, sourcing liquidity, oracle and fun...

HypeTrader, also known as @MomentumKevin, joins Sokio to talk about the wins, losses and mindset shifts behind his journey as a high-volume Hyperliquid trader.  Kevin traces his path from buying the 2013 Bitcoin top and trading the 2017 altcoin cycle to BitMEX liquidations, NFTs and eventually HYPE. He speaks openly about million-dollar drawdowns, losing most of two years of trading P&L,...

Stonk Trump joins the Insilico Terminal Podcast to explain how he uses institutional positioning, options flow and technical analysis to find swing trades across equities and options.  We discuss why the worst headlines often arrive near market bottoms, how he structures longer-dated calls and takes profit, and why good earnings cannot save a trade that everyone already owns. He also breaks d...

Felix Jauvin, Head of Content at Blockworks and host of Forward Guidance, joins the Insilico Terminal Podcast to talk macro, crypto, AI and the current market setup.  We get into why macro has become harder to apply to Bitcoin, which economic signals actually matter for traders, how Felix structures his own portfolio, the risks around Saylor and Strategy, and why he thinks much of the easy mo...

Omnia joins the Insilico Terminal Podcast to discuss his path from NFT market making and crypto investing to building Kinetiq, the largest protocol on Hyperliquid.  We cover what convinced him to bet on Hyperliquid early, how HyperBFT and HyperEVM work, what K-HYPE offers holders, and how Markets by Kinetiq is approaching HIP-3 markets.  We also discuss the challenges of building inside...

Andrew from Block Scholes joins the Insilico Terminal Podcast to talk about crypto derivatives, options data, volatility surfaces, prediction markets, AI market makers, and why institutions are still building in crypto despite the bear market.  We covered what Block Scholes does, how their data is used by exchanges, market makers, banks, and DeFi teams, why prediction markets are basically re...

HackermanAce joins the Insilico Terminal Podcast to talk about Ichimoku trading, finding a real system, crypto options, volatility, hedging, on-chain venues, LPing memecoins, Solana, Hyperliquid, and where the next cycle could come from.  We covered how Ace went from early crypto mistakes to full-time trading, why he built his style around Ichimoku Cloud setups, why day trading burns people o...

Hendrik Ghys, Co-Founder & CEO of Thalex, joins the Insilico Terminal Podcast to talk about crypto options, volatility trading, market makers, delta hedging, and why options are easier than most traders think.  We cover how Thalex is building a crypto options exchange, why options are harder to bring on-chain than perps, how MOVE-style contracts work, what market makers actually do when t...

EmptyBrainTrader joins the Insilico Terminal Podcast to talk about crypto trading, execution, mean reversion, and the psychology of actually clicking the button.  We covered his early mistakes buying XRP and Zcash, blowing up in 2022, studying DOM and auction market theory, building a mean reversion style, dealing with FOMO and revenge trading, and why execution often matters more than perfec...

CryptoGoon joins the Insilico Terminal Podcast to talk about leaving TradFi, discovering early DeFi, getting rugged, and finding real trading edges across crypto markets.  We cover the difference between solo trading and working inside a trading firm, how simple arbs and broken on-chain mechanics turned into profitable trades, what market making actually looks like, and why new perp DEXs and...

Marty joins the Insilico Terminal Podcast to talk about his path from early Bitcoin and BitMEX to becoming a top perps and spot market maker on FTX, and later moving deeper into crypto options.  We discuss why options market making is so different from perps, why retail still prefers simple up/down leverage, how structured products work, what went wrong with DeFi options, and why portfolio ma...

In this episode, we’re joined by @GoshawkTrades, a systematic and algorithmic trader running 12+ live strategies across futures, equities, and crypto.  We talk about how he got into trading, why he moved toward systematic strategies, what he got wrong early, and what his trading looks like today.  We also cover where strategy ideas come from, how to test them properly, the most common ba...

Skew joins the Insilico Terminal Podcast to talk about how crypto markets have changed, why trading is more competitive now, and how he uses order flow, market structure, CVD, OI, funding, and sentiment to find trades.  We covered his early Bitcoin story, learning to trade on BitMEX, the difference between speculation and real trading, how large players create traps in the market, how to find...

Jords joins the Insilico Terminal Podcast to talk about his path through crypto, from early trading mistakes and Solana NFTs to Hyperliquid, airdrops, logging off, and coming back when the market looked dead again. We talked about why he avoids perps, how he became early to Solana NFTs, what made Hyperliquid stand out before the airdrop, why he prefers buying depressed assets over chasing leverage...

StonXBT joined the Insilico Terminal Podcast to talk about his path from early crypto, learning market profile and order flow, trading on a prop desk, and building a risk-first approach to markets.  We covered scalping DOM and iceberg orders, why most traders skip real source material, how he thinks about position sizing and leverage, turning £3k into £800k, and why the biggest returns usuall...

Krillin joins the Insilico Terminal Podcast to talk about getting into crypto in 2017, riding the altcoin euphoria, losing money through the bear market, and slowly turning that into a real trading process.  We cover early altcoin trading, manual market making on IDEX, risk management, adapting across market conditions, why he moved more toward SPX and TradFi, how macro helped him sell the 20...