Chris Camillo
Chris Camillo is one of the world's top performing amateur investors, best known for growing a $20k brokerage account into $60 million without following any conventional investment strategies. He served as the Co-Founder and CEO of TickerTags, a social listening platform that gives investors the ability to monitor the conversation around keywords pertinent to publicly traded securities and other investable assets. He is the author of “Laughing at Wall Street” and was featured in Jack Schwager's book, Unknown Market Wizards, as one of the world’s top-performing self-directed investors. Chris is the Founder of Dumb Money, a platform where he shares his unique investment strategies. Together with Dave Hanson and Jordan McLain, they focus on finding investment ideas in their everyday lives, challenging the traditional notion that only Wall Street professionals can make successful investments.
Chris Camillo Professional Experience / Academic History
Professional Experience
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Founder
Academic History
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B.B.A., Finance
SOCIAL ARBITRAGE
Chris single-handedly created an entirely new class of investment analysis termed Social Arbitrage, which involves data mining social media platforms to identify and capitalize on early trends and consumer behavior patterns before they become mainstream.
This technique involves observing social trends and cultural shifts to identify game-changing information hidden in everyday life.
By keeping a keen eye on platforms like TikTok, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram, he has been able to capitalize on emerging trends and beat the market.
In 2006, he applied a social arbitrage trading strategy that resulted in 95% annualized portfolio returns over the following 10-year period.
TICKERTAGS
TickerTags is a social listening and analytics platform that famously predicted Brexit results in 2016.
Their tech monitors sources such as Twitter, online news, product reviews, blog and message board posts, and social video comments.
The firm has established a measurement frequency and sentiment to tag mentions that provide the earliest indication of change in business dynamics.
In 2018, Tickertags was acquired by the MScience market data intelligence division of Jefferies Financial Group.
EXPERTISE
Beyond investing in the public markets, Chris has made a career of bringing new business concepts to market as an active early stage investor/advisor and operational executive.
He identifies “game-changing things in real-life, that are having game-changing impacts on real companies,” which he refers to as information arbitrage over Wall Street.
Exits where Chris played a strategic management role include e-Rewards Research (Dynata), eCarList (DealerTrack/Cox Automotive), Order My Gear (Susquehanna Growth), TickerTags (Jefferies), and Fixd Repair (Angies List).
MEDIA & PUBLICATIONS
A pioneer in contextual data analysis, Chris is a regular speaker on the predictive effectiveness of social data sets and their role in investment research.
He has been featured on Bloomberg, Fox Business Channel, CNBC, Forbes, Business Insider, Yahoo! Finance and Business Week.