🗣️ Investor Talk #43: Samsolid

Podcast-host Hidden Edge Capital, The Boys Invest & Wolf Financial

Welcome to Investor Talk — where we interview successful investors to uncover their journeys, strategies, and the lessons they've learned. Get inspired by real stories and gain valuable insights to sharpen your own investment approach.

Every interview follows the same set of sharp, insightful questions — such as “What is your investment strategy?”, “What are your highest conviction stocks?”, and “What’s the biggest investment mistake you’ve made?”

In this edition, we have the pleasure of interviewing:

Name: Samsolid @samsolid57
Age: 37
Residence/Country: United States
Invests since: 2011

𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻
I’ve been working in IT for nearly two decades now. My academic background is in mathematics. I’ve always been drawn to numbers, patterns, and logic. There’s something deeply satisfying about finding structure in chaos, and that same mindset naturally pulled me toward the financial markets.

I started investing back in 2011. My first real conviction play was $AAPL. I held it for a decade, and that single position taught me one of the most powerful lessons in investing: time in the market beats timing the market. In 2017, I added $TSLA and $AMZN to the mix. Like many others, I sold them in 2021, too early, in hindsight. That one still stings. But every trade leaves a scar or a story, and the market is the best teacher of humility I’ve ever known.

From there, I spent three intense years trading futures and options. It was fast-paced, high-risk, and unforgiving. That chapter pushed me to my limits. It taught me how quickly conviction can crumble if you don’t have a solid system in place. It also revealed a lot about my own psychology under pressure, and where my real strengths and weaknesses lie.

The real turning point came when I stopped trying to catch every move. I started journaling every trade, every thought, every mistake. Risk management became the cornerstone of everything I did. I slowed down, zoomed out, and shifted toward long-term investing and long-term swing trading in 2023. Since then, I haven’t looked back.

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗶𝗻𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗴𝘆?