Professional Experience

Our founders have over 50 combined years of experience trading stocks, options, crypto, treasuries, futures, and other financial and investment experience. Through those years we provided guidance, investment advice, financial coaching, and various management for our peers.

Some of the most common themes that have challenged our peers we’ve listed here. Many of our peers just do not understand the market. And this is so true for many. With so much news, advice, and other ever-changing conditions, it’s a challenge to see what direction the market will go.

In addition, it takes a lot of time to research. I know many of us have probably received a hot stock tip, but it’s hard to see it for it’s true value. It takes a lot of work to research to find if it really is a valuable option. Back in the day we purchased a financial newspaper like Investors Business Day or Wall Street Journal, each of them provided a their own respective list of top stocks. We would look at various metrics to qualify it as a fundamentally good stock. These metrics include PE ratios, volume, earnings, profitability, their current industry, what are their services and products, and a bunch of other variables. We look at that information for each individual stock to determine the value of each stock and which one we should consider to be best in breed. Currently we can access all that information online. But it still requires an extensive amount of time to research.

In addition to the challenges and time-consuming efforts of researching, many of us are probably unsatisfied with the growth of their current investments. Recently reviewing my own 401K performance, I cringe at my 8% loss over the past year. The only reason I continue to invest is my employer match and knowing that it’s a long-term play and eventually the market will recover, and my 401k will thrive. But I also want to diversify my portfolio and not trust it all in one place.

And thinking all in one place, many of us has a old school mentality of hiding our money in our mattress or parking it in a savings but it’s losing money. I’m all for rainy day or emergency money, but now that I’m more financially educated, I like my money to work for me. Financial gurus like Dave Ramsey to Ramit Sethi from Warren Buffet to Suze Orman, all agree having your money sitting in a bank is a lost because of inflation. You’re paying more for goods and services, which cost you to lose 3-10% for your savings each year. We all hear it in the news about inflation. Take that mattress money and put it to work. And we can put it to work for you. We’ve managed accounts for a few years already, but scaling makes it difficult as we have to maintain everyone’s credentials, usernames, profiles, passwords which becomes a security risk. We have to put in the same trade for each account, and track every trade and account. We rinse and repeat for each account, which is time consuming, and time is money when it comes to the market. We created Chimera Hedge Fund that allows us to scale and grow, which provides us greater options for our investments and eases the challenges I mentioned.