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Jared Dillian Learned How To Seek Risk | Off The Charts

For Wall Street veteran Jared Dillian, getting away from Wall Street might have been the best thing he ever did for himself.

Now living in South Carolina, he can’t be further removed from the lifestyle of your typical Wall Streeter. And he’d have it no other way, as he’s convinced Wall Street took at least 10 years off of his life expectancy.

As Jared says, his stress levels are now “basically zero.”

Having lived on the bleeding edge of ETF market making at Lehman Brothers, and then being there into the Great Financial Crisis and Lehman’s eventual bankruptcy, he’s not ashamed to say he was burned out. Completely fried.

So when an offer came for him to stay on with Lehman’s successor (Barclay’s), he said “thanks, but no thanks” and he peaced out.

In the time since, Jared has published novels, trading books, and developed a widely-read newsletter.

And his newsletter (The Daily Dirtnap) is the jumping off point for this conversation as he published a piece in the aftermath of the August 5th volatility spike that is easily the best thing we read among the terabytes of noise that was thrown at us.

We get into his article and give Jared an opportunity to expand on the key points he hit upon including the four things he thinks every trader needs to be successful (hint: they aren’t strategies, software, execution, or indicators).

Learning about Jared’s transition from the risk-adverse mindset of his years serving in the Coast Guard, to adopting and internalizing a risk-seeking way of existence is fascinating and inspiring.

This is a fantastic and far too short conversation with one of the smartest market minds we know. Enjoy!

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