Michael Melissinos - Mastering the Art of Trend-Following | #534

The Meb Faber Show - Better Investing

The Idea Farm

Business, Investing, Management

4.7 • 938 Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Today’s guest is Michael Melissinos, founder of Melissinos Trading, an investment firm that employs a systematic trend-following approach. In today’s episode, Mike shares his journey into trend following and his approach to trading. He emphasizes the importance of removing biases and opinions when observing trends and executing trades. We get into the nuances of trend following, sticking to a trading system, and much more. (0:00) Introduction of guest Mike Melissinos and his journey into trend following (6:08) Jumping into trend following (10:07) Implementation and execution of trend following strategies, with emphasis on risk management (14:19) Deciding what markets to trade (16:33) The pitfalls of overriding your system (21:24) Questioning assumptions and the benefits of sticking to a system (28:40) Trading during the 2020 COVID crash and the subsequent inflation wave (30:07) The unexpected downfall of the 60/40 in recent years (33:11) Long term versus short term trading systems (36:06) Mike's most memorable investment ----- Follow Meb on Twitter, LinkedIn and YouTube For detailed show notes, click here To learn more about our funds and follow us, subscribe to our mailing list or visit us at cambriainvestments.com ----- Sponsor: 10 East is a membership-based investment firm founded by Michael Leffell, former Deputy Executive Managing Member of Davidson Kempner, focused on providing targeted exposure to private markets. Members invest at their discretion in single-investment and niche fund vehicles across private credit, real estate, private equity, and venture capital. Follow The Idea Farm: Twitter | LinkedIn | Instagram | TikTok ----- Interested in sponsoring the show? Email us at [email protected] ----- Past guests include Ed Thorp, Richard Thaler, Jeremy Grantham, Joel Greenblatt, Campbell Harvey, Ivy Zelman, Kathryn Kaminski, Jason Calacanis, Whitney Baker, Aswath Damodaran, Howard Marks, Tom Barton, and many more. ----- Meb's invested in some awesome startups that have passed along discounts to our listeners. Check them out here! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Mebb Faver Show, where the focus is on helping you grow and
0:08.0	preserve your wealth. Join us as we discuss the craft of investing and
0:11.3	uncover new and profitable ideas all to help you grow
0:13.9	wealthier and wiser. Better investing starts here.
0:17.0	Meck Baber is the co-founder and chief investment officer at Cambria Investment
0:20.7	Management. Due to industry regulations he will not discuss any of Cambry's funds on this podcast.
0:25.1	All opinions expressed by podcast participants are solely their own opinions and do not
0:28.3	reflect the opinion of Cambria Investment Management or its affiliates.
0:31.2	For more information, visit Cambria Investments.com.
0:33.4	American Farmland is disappearing at an alarming rate. According to the USDA, the U.S. has lost four acres of farmland per minute since 2000.
0:47.6	That's a landmass larger than the state of Florida,
0:50.0	lost a real estate development and soil burnout.
0:53.4	All the while the demand for food, especially healthy, organic food,
0:56.8	continues to rise as much as 13% annually in recent years.
1:01.4	Farmland LP is one of the largest investment funds in the US
1:04.8	focused on the organic market as ideally suited to take advantage of the
1:09.0	dwindling supply of farmland and the rapidly increasing demand for food.
1:14.0	Its strategy focuses on converting conventional farmland
1:16.7	to USDA certified organic regenerative farmland.
1:20.1	They have a portfolio of more than 16,000 organic and sustainably farmed acres and a 15-year track record of success.
1:27.0	Their goal is simple, to produce attractive returns for investors while benefiting the environment.
1:32.0	In today's world of high inflation, volatile markets, and in a for investors, while benefiting the environment.
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