321-The Trend Following Investment Strategy (and What It's Like to Build Your Own Investment Management Firm from Scratch) with Michael Melissinos
Radical Personal Finance
Joshua J. Sheats, MSFS, CFP, CLU, ChFC, CASL, RHU, REBC, CAP
4.2 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2016
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Michael Melissinos. Michael is a trend-following investment manager who has systematically built his own firm over the past few years.
Michael's story presents both a case study of entrepreneurship (how to go from jobs that are poorly suited to you to an entrepreneurial venture) as well as insight into various aspects of trading from a trend-following perspective.
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Joshua
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| 0:00.0 | Today in Radical Personal Finance, we talk about what it's like to actually build from nothing. |
| 0:07.0 | And I mean absolutely nothing from nothing. |
| 0:09.7 | What is it like to build an investment management firm? |
| 0:14.0 | And here I'm not talking about the type of financial advisor that I was, |
| 0:18.6 | helping people with their financial planning. |
| 0:21.1 | I'm talking about somebody who's managing an investment firm. |
| 0:24.9 | My guest today is Michael Melicinos. He started from nothing, worked his way up, and has been |
| 0:30.7 | systematically building a standalone investment advisory business. |
| 0:38.0 | And through the context of that business we're going to talk about how to learn investing. We're going to talk |
| 0:44.6 | about an investment strategy known as Trend Following, which is where Michael is an expert. |
| 0:49.9 | And we're also going to talk about building a life and how to decide between taking a job and building a business. And the Welcome to the Radical Personal Finance Podcast. My name is Joshua Sheets and I'm your host. |
| 1:19.0 | Thank you for being with me. I like to talk about investing and we're going to talk on this show in the future with |
| 1:26.1 | seasoned portfolio managers. My guest today, he's not unseasoned, but he's also not a 30-year veteran. |
| 1:35.1 | And so some of the emotion and the challenge and the learning process is still fresh and raw, |
| 1:40.8 | and I think that's going to benefit you. Michael Melicinos, a listener of the show sometimes, and he reached out to me and said, hey, would you like to interview me? |
| 1:52.0 | I got an |
| 1:53.0 | interesting story and I said absolutely and I think he's got something very |
| 1:56.8 | valuable to talk about we talk about the specifics of trading strategies so those of |
| 2:02.2 | you who are interested in in trading and in different |
| 2:05.6 | trends and in specific and trend following but in different types of investment strategies |
| 2:10.1 | you will enjoy this interview today. |
| 2:13.0 | It's a fairly lengthy one, so I'm going to get right to it. |
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