Jared Dillian, Financial Educator & Author, 'I have always been a contrarian', Episode 65

Investing Matters

To quote Wayne Huizenga, “Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen”.

With that in mind welcome to this latest episode in the Investing Matters podcast series in which I have the privilege of speaking the hugely multi-talented and globally respected Writer, Trader, Musician, DJ, Entrepreneur, Financial Educator, former Wall St trader and Editor of The Daily Dirtnap, a newsletter for professional investors, Jared Dillian. The author of four books including the fantastic Harriman House recently published book: No Worries, How to live a stress-Free Financial Life.

Jared graduated from the United States Coast Guard Academy in 1996 with a B.S. in Mathematics and Computer Science, from the University of San Francisco in 2001 with a Master’s in Business Administration, concentration in Finance, and from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2023 with a Masters in Fine Arts in Writing. Jared worked for a small floor market maker on the Pacific Options Exchange from 1999-2000 and was a trader for Lehman Brothers from 2001 to 2008, specializing in index arbitrage and ETF trading.

Jared is a master of market psychology and has been called the “Dr. House” of trading, and he has a following ranging from casual investors to professional traders and hedge fund managers.

He has been a regular contributor at Bloomberg Opinion, Forbes, TheStreet.com, and other outlets. Jared is a frequent speaker at conferences, and his appearances include MSNBC, Bloomberg TV, The New York Times, LA Times, Business Insider, was the host of The Jared Dillian Show, a nationally syndicated radio show on personal finance.

In his spare time, Jared is a progressive house DJ and speaks frequently on mental health issues at financial institutions. Additionally, Jared is an adjunct professor in the business program at Coastal Carolina University. He was also an investment strategist at Mauldin Economics.

In this fascinating and insightful Investing Matters interview Jared Dillian a survivor of 9/11, financial educator, former Wall St. trader, with over twenty-five years’ experience of the markets, shares many investing, trading and personal finance lessons and strategies on how to achieve a “No Worries” stress-free financial life.

Topics and discussions include:

-Desired to a writer and author

-Serving a spy for Coast Guard Intelligence.

-His catalyst for going part-time to Business School.

-Outworking everyone else.

-His first lucky break in finance.

-His hunger and determination to succeed.

-Working on the Trading Floor

-Working at Lehman Brothers as an Index Arbitrage trader & later as the Head of the ETF trading desk.

-Lessons learned at Lehman Brothers

-Rejecting a huge financial salary & security.

-Backing himself & the importance of thinking big.

-The Daily Dirtnap newsletter growth & success.

- How & when he started investing and his current Investing/trading philosophy.

-Always being contrarian.

-Buying out of favour stocks.

-Sentiment a recurring winning strategy.

-Huge OIL qualitative trading success.

-Psychology.

-Deep value investing

-No stock, no index, no mutual fund is safe.

-Generating risk adjusted returns.

-Minimising volatility.

-The characteristics and straits of success investors & traders.

-Hedge Funds

-Growth of Private Equity and potential risks.

- How to “Live in the Noise” of the markets and optimise your decision making.

-The rationale behind the use of “Invest then Investigate”.

-The book, No Worries: How to live a stress-Free Financial Life.

-Why F.I.R.E. is a dumb philosophy.

-- Why we can all choose how much money we earn.

- The optimal way to minimize financial risk and stress.

-Buying Vs Renting property

-The Cult of Home ownership

- The rule 150.

-Investing diversification.

-The awesome portfolio of ETFs.

-Stocks/Bonds/Cash/Gold/Real Estate

-Trading Bitcoin

-The emergence of the Bitcoin ETF

-The option value of cash

-Personal finance and the Abundance Mindset