Since the onset of the pandemic, everyone became a day trader overnight, whether it was Robinhood day traders trading options in Tesla or Wall Street investors betting in meme stocks like Gamestop. On today’s show we ask Tobias why he thinks building a content creation platform for day traders is what people really want, how Trading.TV plans to integrate with other platforms who trade in stocks, crypto and other alternative assets, and more!
About Tobias:
Tobias Heaslip is founder and CEO of Trading.TV, a social livestream platform for traders and financial content creators. Previously, he was director of Technology, Media and Telecom trading at Barclays Investment Bank, Equity Trader at Och-Ziff Capital Management and Analyst at Morgan Stanley.
In this episode we discuss:
02:00 Tobias’ personal background and why he founded Trading.TV
03:25 Tracking financial markets on social media
06:04 Competing with different online platforms
08:13 Why we need a new trading platform
09:04 What kind of content is on Trading.TV
09:58 Managing the costs of content creation
11:42 Verifying users on the platform
15:23 Incentivizing content creators on the platform
16:48 Promotional content on financial TV
18:17 Short form content for financial advice
20:40 Integrations with other platforms
21:35 Getting away from the liability of offering financial advice
23:55 How to make different asset classes digestible
30:20 Creating an inclusive and diverse community
32:12 What to expect from Trading.TV
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