Martin Kronicle

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Jared Dillian’s brain worked very differently from most of his colleagues. He had what I’d call these emotional tectonic plates inside his head that would shift in an instant. When they shifted, they’d tremor so hard, they’d make the fault lines along the San Andreas Fault sit up straight…and that’s not counting what happened as a result from his trading.

Dillian describes his personal journey in one of the most revealing memoirs I’ve read in the past decade. He is a very genuine person and his recent book Street Freak: Money & Madness at Lehman Brothers is written with a great deal of candor. I recommend you read the book — it’s written with a great deal of honesty and you can hear it come through in the podcast.

“Throughout most my adult life, I’d always felt that I experienced things differently from other people. I felt more. Instead of getting sad, I would get really sad. Despondent. Instead of being happy, I would be delirious. I would laugh, and everybody would turn around to look at the crazy man. Now here I was, crying in the middle of Seventh Avenue. But there was no reason for the crying. I was just walking down the street, and I fell to pieces.” – from Street Freak

Dillian is the publisher of the Daily Dirt Nap Newsletter, which continues the success of the market letter he wrote for his clients over the Bloomberg while at Lehman.

Jared, Aaron Brown and I are speaking at Columbia University on February 13, 2012 for an event called the Financial Engineering Practitioners Seminar

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I spoke with Joe Terranova on the release of his new book Buy High, Sell Higher: Why Buy-And-Hold Is Dead And Other Investing Lessons from CNBC’s “The Liquidator”.

I hope you enjoy this insightful interview. Joe is a solid citizen and the book is a good read.

Guy, Peter, and Jon have resigned from the Stox & Jocks and have appointed me to take over in their stead. Just kidding…

I will be on for a segment with the 3 Amigos Saturday morning talking about my upcoming book The Inner Voice of Trading, which will be published by FT Press on October 6.

Here is the site where you can see the station in your area, or you cans stream it over the internet.

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John Del Vecchio

I had a chance to catch up with Active Bear ETF Portfolio Manager John Del Vecchio. Del Vecchio specializes in short selling. HDGE uses no leverage and is fully transparent.

His favorite shorts right now are AsiaInfo-Linkage, Inc. (Ticker: ASIA) and Juniper Networks, Inc. (Ticker: JNPR).

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Jeffrey Hirsch is the author of the 2011 editions of the Stock Trader’s Almanac and the Commodity Trader’s Almanac. I spoke with him last week. As a teacher, I find it hard to believe that more investors don’t learn to time the market when there is ample evidence that it is not only possible, but that the patterns have historical backing.