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Mike Melissinos

Mike Melissinos

Founder and trend-following investment manager at Melissinos Trading; systematic CTA managing global futures since 2011.

Jun 27, 2026

56:34
So what are your thoughts on that?
56:38
Uh, I think off the tip of my tongue, I think, uh, two pronged in that, um, I want to be able to brainstorm about and talk about, you know, what could happen.
56:53
Um, even if they're crazy pie in the sky ideas, they're, they're very low probability or, uh, things like that.
57:01
But I have fun kind of imagining wild things.
57:06
Um, I think that could help in the sense of sticking to your system when things happen.
57:15
Because, okay, I've already kind of rehearsed wacky things like this happening.
57:19
So, yeah, I have no problem executing my trades as they come.

29 MINS LATER

85:56
between these states you don't really know what you're going to get every day you uh you wake up or every quarter or every month or whatever so i think that's the dance we do and that's what makes it uh hard so i'd say make it easy on yourself and widen the time frames
AdamHOST
63:08
Sorry to interrupt there, Mike, but did you reach out to people in that drawdown? What did you do to cope with a drawdown?
63:20
Yeah, and last year was at the bottom of my worst one.
63:25
I was, I think, a little over 50.
63:29
But I still can't believe it.
63:30
I still can't believe it.
63:31
I still say it to this day.
63:34
No one called me.

34 MINS LATER

97:11
That's good.

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