Thomas Heckler | Burton Knowbuddy |Superpark19 |Day Trading | Engineering Music

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Episode #24 

I set-up a podcast studio in my hotel room at Superpark 19 at Seven Springs and had a chat with Burton Knowbuddy rider, day trader and music engineer, Thomas Heckler. 

We covered: 

• Growing up and snowboarding at Stowe
• Moving to Norway and going to a snowboarding school
• Bud Keene BKPRO
• Knee injury and recovery Dr. Tom Hackett at Steadman Clinic
  • Electroshock therapy - jk 
• Investing for today’s generation.
• Day trading
• Technical and fundamental stock analysis
• Going long vs. going short - the loaf of bread supply and demand story 
• Emotion and psychology in trading
• Music recording arts and mixing/engineering 
• How the digital ge has affected music quality
• Snowboarder Magazine / Seven Springs / Nexen Tire Superpark 19 

Quotes:

“I have a lot of friends who are my age or maybe a little bit older who don’t really know anything about investing.”

“The more money you have the more money you can make.”

“It seems like my generation is much less in tune with how money or wealth is accumulated.” 

“I think it’s important for younger people to think about how they got to where they are….The ability to be able to go ride every weekend, have a pass, that stuff costs so much money.” 

“You think, money, it’s just money, it doesn't make me happy, snowboarding makes me happy……And then you have ACL surgery and you realize that it costs a hundred grand to fix a knee.”

“Guys like Warren Buffet have made billions of dollars basically by dumbing it down.”

“The smartest guys in the room are the guys that can see through all of that noise and see an opportunity.”

“At the end of the day what matters is that your ATM still spews the money out.”

“As far as trading is concerned, by the time the book comes out, the strategy is blown.”

“My dad used to say - it’s not rocket science, keep it simple…But it’s the stock market - it’s not simple…”

“A lot of it is trial and error, it’s really tough to make money in the stock market - in investing.”

“I went to school for sound technology, recording arts - recording and mixing records.”

“After the fact you go in you arrange, set levels and add different types of processing to create a picture with a song.” 

“Back when vinyl was the medium… It was so much about creating a visual picture…. you could see the band.”

“I think that listeners don't really understand that engineers are as much an artist as the actual musicians that play the instrument.”

“You can create this movement - this movie - with the sound. It’s very artistic, it’s cool.”