About Me
Luis Solórzano has been a valued member of Finom Group since 2024, contributing both as an investor and as an emerging business professional. His journey in the financial markets began in June 2020 during the heightened uncertainty of the COVID-19 pandemic, a period that also marked his temporary departure from college for personal reasons—an episode he acknowledges shaped his resilience and pragmatic approach to learning. He recently graduated from the University of Houston Bauer College of Business with a BBA in Management and a Minor in Entrepreneurship within an Applied Leadership Career Track.
To date, Mr. Solórzano continues to build on his experience as he advances his professional career, navigating an ongoing series of challenges and opportunities that have served as catalysts for personal and financial growth. His investing career originated with the purchase of $1,000 worth of Tesla (TSLA) shares and 100 AMC shares at $3 each via Cash App in the immediate aftermath of the COVID-19 market scare. He also experimented with zero-day and weekly options trading on Robinhood, recognizing in retrospect that such activities constituted speculative risk-taking rather than genuine investing. As is common among many Wall Street newcomers, tuition is often paid in the form of costly mistakes—a fact that has shaped his subsequent approach to markets as Seth Golden, Finom Group’s founder, frequently observes: “The market is one of the most expensive places you can pay for your missteps.” Luis remains an advocate for active participation, recognizing that involvement is essential for growth.
Those early lessons and “fool’s gold” mistakes have proven invaluable, prompting necessary corrections and a more robust investing discipline since joining Finom Group. Mr. Solórzano maintains an open-minded perspective, continually aiming to unlearn common misconceptions and rigid “Wall Street dogmas”—what he terms investor rigor mortis—that can impede progress. He credits this shift in mindset for improvements both personally and in portfolio performance, confident that future benefits will continue to accrue.
Self-awareness and integrity are central to his way of operating, as candid admission of errors has been instrumental in his ongoing personal and professional development. Though relatively new to Finom Group, he values the mentorship of Seth Golden and Edward Cordoba, acknowledging their impact on his growth trajectory. Luis recognizes himself as a beginner investor, distinguished most by his eagerness to absorb new lessons and progress within the community.
In recent years, he has refined his approach towards an “aggressively disciplined,” long-term, buy-and-hold strategy anchored by diversified U.S. 🇺🇸 long-only ETF exposure across Nasdaq-oriented equities, FANG+, medical devices, cybersecurity, multi-asset themes, biotechnology, healthcare, and consumer staples. His current ETF holdings include QNDX, FNGS, IHI, HACK, RSSX, IBB, XLV, and XLP.
Alongside that ETF foundation, he maintains individual equity positions across cybersecurity, fintech and financial-market infrastructure, e-commerce, semiconductors, aviation, beverages and consumer staples, restaurants, sports betting, communications software, travel, and Apple 🍎. His current individual stock holdings include PANW, XYZ, CBOE, SHOP, NVDA, BA, PEP, CAVA, DKNG, ZM, ABNB, and AAPL, while accepting that all individual stock positions carry idiosyncratic risk, meaning these holdings may underperform or outperform broader market and index ETF exposure over any given year.
Following his graduation, Mr. Solórzano is advancing his career in private equity, joining Elementa Partners for a summer internship. At Elementa, he aligns with a Texas-rooted private markets platform dedicated to bridging Latin American capital with legacy Texas family-investment access for long-term wealth preservation. Deeply family-oriented, his professional ambitions are fundamentally anchored in building a lasting legacy for your loved ones. This core focus is directly inspired by his parents’ strategic acquisition of rental properties in the Houston suburbs beginning in 2008—a real-world model of generational wealth creation and compounding growth through disciplined reinvestment that ultimately shapes his long-term vision.
Luis’ background includes relocation from Mexico City to The Woodlands, Texas in 2005, following his father’s retirement as a general surgeon. The values instilled through his upbringing—discipline, strategic thinking, and a commitment to building lasting wealth—remain central to both his professional ambitions and his approach to investing.
Engagement within the Finom Group community remains a source of excitement for Mr. Solorzano. He seeks to be a valuable resource for fellow “FINOMINALS,” fostering reciprocity and support. He encourages robust participation, open inquiry, and shared learning—qualities that enabled his own connection to Seth Golden and continue to underpin his philosophy that collective experience, encompassing both victories and setbacks, is central to progress.
“There’s a BIG difference between being informed and being fearful.
Especially when it comes to investing, one should have healthy discipline, not a fear-driven mindset!”
– Seth Golden at Finom Group
