Author: Michael Melissinos

Make Something Happen

You hear it often. It’s well intentioned, of course. It can even serve as a motivator at times too. But it’s often used when impatience and frustration are capitulating. Coherent plans be damned. Forget long-term ramifications. Just make something happen! The pressure to perform is real, but it’s often self-induced by spending more than you […]

The Price of Admission

These are the kinds of market days where you learn whether you’re prepared or not. Are you comfortable with the risk you’re taking? Is the drawdown too steep for you? Do you have the urge to change your investment approach? Are you looking at other approaches to switch over to? Did you know that days […]

Know Your Customer

You actually have to care about the people that buy your product. They, the human being, matter more than your quotas or financial metrics. Learn their values. Their risk tolerance. Interests. What irritates them. Find out what they know about your product and what they “know” that just isn’t so. Fill in the holes. Repair […]

How the events of July 13 affect my trading approach

[This passage is taken from our Q2 Investor Letter] From a trading perspective, the event alone plays ZER0 role in our process. Only to the degree in which it affects the trends of the markets we monitor is all we care about. Writing this letter only a few days after the attempted assassination of Trump, […]

Something Good Coming

I’m watching the water Watching the coast Suddenly I know What I want the most […] — Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers [Something Good Coming] We all have so much unproductive and unhealthy internal chatter going on that it clouds our true desires and values. We become lost. We lack direction. We don’t know what […]

A Slight Edge is Enough, Even Preferred for Long-Term Survival

“If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito.” — Betty Reese Competitive advantages, especially obvious ones, don’t last long. Roger Federer became the best tennis player of his time with only a slight advantage in points won. Competition and evolution never stops. One simple unsexy way to […]

The 1 for 15 Slump

My son turns two today. He loves baseball and now knows he’s the same number as Derek Jeter. Hence, this Jeter-inspired post. Derek Jeter won one World Series title in his last 15 years in the league. Not many people think of him going 1 for his last 15. They remember the sheer dominance and […]

The Critical Component to Investing Performance

Most people believe IQ and cutting edge tactics account for superior investing performance. I think it’s the ability to control one’s emotions, especially in times of high stress and pressure. Sometimes this pressure is exogenous. Markets get crazy. Your biggest position reports very poor earnings. Your best trader leaves for another firm. More often than […]

The Coast is Never that Clear

Just when you think you’ve got the wind at your back and nothing can go wrong, the markets will likely deliver a healthy dose of reality. You can never get too comfortable in this game. Like the old Atari game Asteroids, it’s our job to move out of harms way and manage the damage. In […]

Let’s Go Back to 2013

It’s January 2013 and the general feeling about the stock market is much less cocky than it is today. We’re 4-5 years removed from the Financial Crisis when stocks lost half of their value. Fear and cautiousness are still in the air — and this is after a ~90% rally off the March 2009 lows (using […]

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