In starting any business, you run into unexpected roadblocks and challenges, and you learn something from each mistake. Our next guest is the founder of a trading firm who has grown his business twice and learned how to overcome the barriers in his way. We can learn a lot from someone who is ready for the unexpected whether it is good or bad.

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In This Episode, You’ll Learn:

About his childhood in Upstate New York and Pennsylvania.
Rob’s interest in music and sports.
How his early Rock and Roll career faired and how he went into the financial industry.
How he got hired at IBM.
His years at IBM and the lessons it taught him.
How his fascination for trading started after he began a consulting business.
The tipping point: when he went full-in to the trading business.
How he learned about different strategies and tested them.
When he came upon trend following and what made him stick with it.
What kind of trend following he started with.
How a drawdown taught him he needed to differentiate himself from other managers.
The lessons that his first expansion stage taught him.
The big event that happened after 2010 that changed everything.
About MF Global and the meltdown of that firm.
An overview of the programs that his firm runs.
How he manages investor expectations with a small team.
How he outsources operational roles in order to cut costs and remain a one-man shop.

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