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Invest With Other Peopleās Money

Over the past couple of weeks, I was reading through the book Laughing at Wall Street by Chris Camillo.
I first stumbled across Chris and his approach to investing when he went on Graham Stephanās Podcast the Iced Coffee Hour. While Chrisās investing approach deserves its own write up, his strategy for funding your investing account needed to be discussed first.
In this post we are going to break down how Mr. Camillo invests with other peopleās money. In a future email weāll discuss his social arbitrage trading strategy.
What is OPM?
The abbreviation used for other peopleās money in the book is OPM.
High level, OPM is money that you would have spent elsewhere. In the book Chris uses the example of not getting a haircut as often and saving $40. He automatically puts that in his OPM account.
Another example he mentions is funds saved from delaying purchases. At one point he was shopping for a flat screen TV that was $600. Rather than pay full price, he waited for a sale, bought it for $400, earning himself $200 of āother peopleās money.ā
Here it the definition straight from the book:

OPM vs Normal Investing
According to Chris an OPM account should be viewed differently than oneās 401K or traditional investing portfolio.
Money classified as āOPMā should be seen as already gone. His theory here is that you were going to spend this money anyways, but instead you just spent it on this account. This is quite different than normal investing behavior where you should have consistent monthly contributions and donāt consider that money as gone.
Which leads right into the next topicā¦
The OPM Approach
You might have already seen the writing on the wall.
Your account full of OPM is going to be one that carries a much higher risk profile than your traditional investments (as to why this money should be considered as already spent).
Inside the OPM account Chris likes to use a combination of stocks and options to invest where he thinks he has an information advantage over Wall Street. This advantage is identified through a strategy Chris calls āsocial arbitrage investing.ā Iāll do a full post on it soon, but if you canāt wait click here to watch a video of Chris summarizing this strategy.
Chrisās goal with these investments is for them to return multiple times their initial investment. You arenāt looking for 8%, you are looking for 100%+ moves. Specifically, the goal is to turn every $1 into $100.
The tradeoff is that these plays (especially when using options) carry more risk. As a word of caution, read this to see how about how I lost $1,000 trading options.
Conclusion
Summed up, Chris is using āother peopleās moneyā to make a big bet on stocks he thinks are setup to make a significant move.
While there is more for us to breakdown on how he picks these stocks, using the OPM approach is a cool way to fund your higher-risk accounts. As someone who is young, Iām a firm believer in taking calculated risks. So given how this doesnāt impact oneās normal investing strategy, Iām a fan.
Letās throw around some OPM cash. ~ Cade
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