Erik Smolinski
Erik is a 15-year derivatives trader, Marine vet, and investor. He came from a single mother who worked 2 jobs to support him and his brother yet became a millionaire before he was 30. 2 mentors selflessly provided advice that Erik relentlessly actioned - ultimately changing his life. Erik began investing in high school and expanded into derivatives. He earned a commission as a Marine Officer via a scholarship (otherwise college wasn't possible) and obsessively studied investing and trading. He applied his statistics background from his undergrad and graduate degrees to create a disciplined and quantitative approach to trading. Consistently outperforming the stock market, Erik leveraged his success to spread into real estate and angel investing. Erik started esInvests, a finance media brand, to pay forward the time his mentors spent on him. To be financially successful, you MUST be a statistical outlier thus, the Outlier community was born.
