New episode with @crypto_hades
A conversation with someone who has seen almost every era of crypto market structure firsthand.
We talk through the shift from early inefficiencies and manual trading to stat arb, HFT, execution, and competing in a much harder market.
00:00 Getting into Bitcoin in 2010, mining, Mt. Gox, and coming back in 2017
13:37 ICO mania, BitMEX, and the Bitcoin fork trade
17:14 Why 2018 pushed him toward quant trading
24:52 Building a profitable stat arb business on FTX
40:21 Stat arb vs HFT, and why crypto got more competitive
49:09 What his trading operation looks like today
55:13 The future of crypto market structure and where edge is going
01:05:04 Advice for newer traders and why quant thinking differs from retail
Insilico Terminal Podcast Episode 31 - @TheCryptoNexus
00:00 Intro, Nexus’ trading origin story from biotech stocks to crypto and short-term execution
09:20 The Luna blow-up, losing everything, rebuilding through News trading
17:25 The iPad + Twitter notification News trading setup
25:24 Discovering Hyperliquid early, trading niche perps and why DEX execution finally felt usable
35:04 Managing the Hyperliquid airdrop, risk lessons from blowing up
45:50 Crypto’s future, becoming a Bitcoin + Hyperliquid maxi
57:08 Why crypto is harder now, smarter competition and better tools
01:04:07 The downside of posting trades publicly, ego traps, Twitter pressure and final advice for traders trying to make it
Coming soon to Insilico Terminal: Server-Side Execution & Conditional Orders
Your algos will keep running even if you close the browser tab, your laptop sleeps, or you swap devices.
Conditional orders will allow you to trigger execution automatically.
Today is FOMC day. Days like these are exactly why we built our free & real-time News component: see the catalyst as it hits and act without hopping tabs.
Insilico Terminal Podcast Episode 19 - @deltaxbt
00:00 Intro, Deltas background, early Bitcoin exposure, getting into crypto seriously in 2016–17
05:10 Learning to trade, trial and error across spot, alts, leverage and journaling to survive
10:42 Trading philosophy today, higher timeframes only, patience, simple setups and conviction
17:10 Current market view, Bitcoin range trading, boredom, CT narratives vs reality
23:43 Going full-time, quitting his job, 2021 crash, losing 90% net worth and mental reset
30:51 Risk management evolution, leverage used conservatively, avoiding catastrophic loss
33:50 Patience and FOMO, ignoring CT noise, focusing on few charts, life outside trading
46:32 Expanding into TradFi, differences vs crypto, execution tools, edge durability and closing
Bitcoin Market Review Livestream
Wednesday 21st Jan - 7PM UTC
Continuing from the previous stream, analysing key information through the lens of price action, market profile & footprints
Also featuring guest @Sokio8D member of the Insilico Terminal team
Link below - cheers
https://t.co/m1BuCwSj37
Insilico Terminal Advent Calendar - Day 24 🎄
Today’s drop: Conditional orders and Algorithms on Server (Beta)
This feature enables server-side execution and unlocks:
- Set conditional orders that are placed automatically when defined conditions are met. Conditions can be based on price, time, candlestick close, or candlestick volume, with full AND/OR logic support across all order types.
Example: “Start a chase buy order when the BTC 15m candle closes above 89k and the time is after 30/12/2025.”
- Chase, TWAP, and all other order types continue running even when the browser is closed.
- Support for longer TWAP durations, up to 30 days.
- Full order history synchronized across devices.
Currently available on Hyperliquid, Bybit coming next. More exchanges to follow and feature expansions to follow.
Comment below how you would use these features for your trading to have a chance for beta access; access will be rolled out gradually.
Insilico Terminal Advent Calendar - Day 12 🎄
We’ve added the uPnL Chart directly inside the Positions component, letting you visualize performance across all your open positions in real time.
Insilico Terminal Podcast Episode 14 (and day 11 of the Advent Calendar 🎄) - @Luckshuryy
00:00 Intro & Background, transitioning from accounting to trading, and the role of luck vs. systems in the early days
04:15 Career Mindset & Routine, escaping the 9-to-5, influence of mentors like Tom Dante, and developing structured outlook rather than chasing moonshots
12:35 Bitcoin Specialization, the benefits of mastering a single asset and how Bitcoin's market structure and liquidity have fragmented since 2021
19:10 Trading Philosophy, building a system around exploiting behavioral inefficiencies and trapped traders rather than reacting to news events
24:35 Managing Drawdowns, using data to distinguish between bad luck and edge erosion, and the importance of stepping back when the edge isn't there
31:05 Demystifying Order Flow, using it as an additional variable for context rather than a holy grail, and his role in developing Exo Charts
41:10 Execution Mastery, the nuance of limit scaling versus market chasing, and optimizing entry prices through patience
44:00 Psychology & Longevity, avoiding the trap of instant re-entries, stopping the tilt spiral
48:15 The Power of Compounding, why 2-3R a month is enough, longevity over quick riches
Insilico Terminal Advent Calendar - Day 10 🎄
Yesterday’s winners have been contacted via DM.
Today’s drop is Smolfrogger - a little game to kill some time while the market is boring.
It even uses real market trades as the inputs.
Have fun hopping 🐸
Insilico Terminal Podcast Episode 11 - @abetrade
00:00 Intro, Adam’s background, first exposure to trading and ICO cycle in 2017
06:30 Trading German bonds, transitioning to crypto perps in 2020, early bull market experiences
14:41 Burnout, switching from intraday to higher-timeframe trading, learning patience
22:22 How he trades now - sentiment, options, mean reversion, and trend systems across markets
31:03 Selling options, volatility strategies, ETFs, and balancing different uncorrelated systems
42:45 Teaching new traders, reflections on markets changing, and why higher TFs make more sense now
46:22 Founding Breakout, getting acquired by Kraken, managing risk at scale
52:07 Why prop trading makes sense, risk frameworks, and thoughts on leverage for smaller traders
55:16 Staying motivated after success, daily habits, balance, and mental clarity
This or next week!
We still testing the new data connection we made for HL
3x faster in terms of data response (public n private based on the age of the messages in WS)
Private -- meaning we're not affected by the public HL API in case of degraded service
Even moar data, meaning FULL HYPERLIQUID ORDERBOOK
-- PS
We can't replicate the execution layer (validating (HyperCore)) so that remains the bottleneck in terms of speed
For now
Shoutout to all insilico hyperliquid traders
250 ish users worth thousands of other venues traders
as usual, size chooses @InsilicoTrading
also cheapest