Trader TV Slashes Through Market Stress: Cost-Cutting Tactics for Volatile Times

When markets convulse, weak hands get wrecked—but sharp traders adapt. Here’s how the pros navigate chaos without bleeding fees.

Fee Wars: Liquidity vanishes, spreads widen, and exchanges jack up costs. Smart money bypasses the bloodbath with off-exchange dark pools and algorithmic sleight-of-hand.

Gaslighting the Gas Fees: Ethereum’s network clogs faster than a Wall Street exec’s arteries during margin calls. Layer 2 solutions and cross-chain swaps cut costs by 80%—while the normies overpay.

Hedging Like a Hedge Fund (Without the BS): Inverse ETFs, options strangles, and perpetual futures let traders profit from panic. Just don’t pull a Melvin Capital.

Close: The market’s a rigged casino, but at least crypto lets you count cards. Adapt or get rekt—your choice.

Eden Simmer, head of global equity trading at Pimco, offers a comprehensive analysis of equities volumes, activity, and liquidity so far this year—including views on some of the unprecedented daily moves.

Eden discusses the need for a robust framework for managing execution and implementation costs in stressed markets; the importance of having the necessary electronic toolkits to optimize trading strategies and how her traders and portfolios managers collaborate on the equities desk.