Author: Michael Melissinos

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 […]

The Chase

We chase returns. It’s in our blood. We extrapolate the recent past expecting it to continue just like it has. It feels good to imagine our money growing at the rate the stock market or some startup has over the past several years. “Wow, if we invested $10k in this three years ago, we’d have […]

Put it on the Line

I’ve built software. I’ve consulted. I’ve coached. I’ve been an employee. I’ve given interviews. I’ve written papers, blogged and podcasted for years. None of it compares to backing your own ideas with your own money and doing it for other like-minded people who trust you. “When you make something truly for yourself, you’re doing the […]

How’s Your Resolution Going?

As an avid sports fan my entire life, I’ve seen many great players never win the big one. Hell, I’ve seen many teams comprised of great players never win the big one. The in-fighting. Backstabbing. Competing egos. Power-trips. The overall locker room drama affects the quality of the end-product. No one can win under these […]

Volatility by Design

The past couple of months have been tough on trend-followers, myself included. The sharp reversals in interest rates, equities and currencies accounted for most of the losses. While the very recent performance has been painful, these “losses” from a trading perspective have simply been giving back some of the profits made over the past few […]

Where Do Trends Come From?

The answer doesn’t matter as much as much as actually being open to receiving them. We must be attentive and always adjusting the dial to sync up with them. One instance of missing out on a major move or holding on to a loser for too long is enough to crush our returns. The vast […]

It’s Not If, But When

In 2005, Warren and Pam Adams lost their home during Hurricane Rita. Instead of feeling sorry for themselves, they decided to protect themselves from the next storm. They moved to Gilchrist, TX and built their new house up to modern codes; designing it to withstand a much stronger storm than the older neighboring homes. No […]

House Pallet Syndrome

[Originally written in 2014, edited in 2024] My fiancé, Marisa, and I visited two small wineries in Napa. We went expecting to taste good wine, but we ended up getting a heavy pour of wisdom from a couple owners of small producers. At small wineries, you can talk directly with the person calling the shots. […]

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