About Evidence-Based Capital
Follow the Evidence.
Master the Market.
Hi, I’m Marc Melendez, CFA.
I help investors master the market with clarity not chaos.
➤I’ve spent the last 19+ years analyzing businesses.
➤I’ve made calls that impacted hundreds of millions in capital.
➤I built and ran my own equity research firm from scratch.
➤And I’ve studied thousands of companies to figure out what actually works in the stock market and how you can get ahead.
I’ve felt the frustration, made the mistakes, and second-guessed every move so you don’t have to.
Most investors stay stuck because they never see the full picture. I did and it changed everything.
Now I help people like you cut through the noise, think strategically, and invest with confidence using a system I call Evidence-Based Equity Analysis.
Because mastery isn’t about luck. It’s about following the right process.
Your next move could change everything.
You don’t need decades to master the market.
Now you can shortcut the path I had to figure out the hard way.
But credentials weren’t enough…
Here’s what I went through to earn them…
Built in the Trenches.
Refined by Experience. Backed by Evidence.
When Mastery Replaced Guesswork
The sleepless nights weren’t the hardest part.
It was the guessing.
I didn’t just wake up one day knowing how to master the market…
I had to go through it all.
The frustration, the second-guessing, the sleepless nights wondering if I’d ever crack the code.
I know what it’s like to feel stuck, to wonder if the market is rigged, to keep searching for that one strategy that actually works.
But everything changed when I discovered the missing piece.
Suddenly, investing wasn’t a gamble, it was a skill I could master.
And today, I want to share that with you.
Because once you see what I saw, everything clicks into place.
From that moment on, you’ll never look at the market the same way again.
You don’t need another tip.
You need the system that turns second-guessing into clarity.
I Had Everything… or So I Thought
When I first set out to master the stock market, I thought I had it all figured out…
I was ambitious, passionate about investing, and eager to make smart decisions that would build real wealth.
I followed the textbook path:
🎓 Earned my Master’s in Investment Management
💼 Landed a coveted role at a boutique Emerging Market investment firm
🚀 Stepped into the investing world ready to thrive and make my mark
But reality hit hard.
All the education, credentials, and theories couldn’t prepare me for what I was about to face.
A chaotic, noisy market with no clear process to follow.
I had the education. The job. The drive.
But the results? They weren’t there.
The Chaos That Changed Everything
Everyone had a different strategy.
But Nothing Worked.
The moment I stepped into that firm, I felt an unsettling wave of confusion.
There was no structure. No repeatable process. No clear path to success.
Every investor had their own conflicting strategy:
📉 Others swore by technical analysis. Constantly staring at charts for patterns
📊 Some obsessed over short-term earnings reports
🌍 A few fixated on macroeconomic trends. Always trying to predict the next big move
There was no cohesive process.
No roadmap.
No structured way to evaluate investments.
And I was left fumbling in the dark.
I spent hours researching late into the night, trying to make sense of it all.
But the harder I worked, the more lost I felt.
When Hard Work Wasn’t Enough
At first, I told myself:
"Just push through.
Work longer.
Study harder.
Dig deeper."
But it didn’t matter.
Every strategy I tried felt incomplete.
It was like solving a puzzle with half the pieces missing.
Every failure wasn’t just a blow to my portfolio but a blow to my confidence.
I wasn’t just losing money…
I was losing faith in myself.
I thought I had done everything “right”:
✔ I had the education
✔ I had the job
✔ I had the drive
And yet, I was failing.
I wasn’t just losing money… I was losing faith in myself.
Then, one night in 2008, sitting at my desk surrounded by reports and financial statements, I hit rock bottom.
I thought I’d done everything ‘right.’
But I was failing.
More effort wasn’t the answer.
A repeatable process was.
The Moment Hope Returned
It wasn’t guesswork. It was evidence.
I don’t even remember what made me click.
But as I scrolled through James Montier’s Postcards from the Edge reports, I felt something I hadn’t felt in months: Hope.
Montier’s approach was different:
🔍 It wasn’t about guesswork. It was about evidence.
📖 It wasn’t just about what worked. It was about why it worked.
🧩 It was a systematic, repeatable process grounded in logic and data.
For the first time, everything started making sense.
And in that moment, I made a decision:
✅ I wasn’t going to keep guessing
✅ I wasn’t going to rely on incomplete strategies
✅ I was going to build a repeatable process I could trust
Buried in Noise. Blind to the Truth.
The real problem wasn’t the market itself.
It was the noise.
False beliefs had kept me trapped in confusion for years:
❌ “Investing is about reading charts”
❌ “You have to predict next quarter’s earnings”
❌ “Macroeconomic trends will tell you which stocks to buy”
Everywhere I turned, someone was shouting a different strategy.
I was drowning in conflicting advice.
But I knew what was at stake…
If I didn’t figure this out, the consequences weren’t just financial, they were life-changing.
The louder the noise got, the more I lost sight of the truth.
You don’t need more opinions.
You need a clear, repeatable process you can trust.
You Don’t Find Mastery. You Build It.
Every failure gave me data.
Every win confirmed the path.
So I did what most won’t. I went all in!
📚 I devoured everything I could find: books, research, real-world case studies
🔍 I tore apart hundreds of businesses to see what made them tick
🛠 I tested. I failed. I refined. Until it all clicked.
And slowly, piece by piece, the puzzle came together.
Each mistake was a clue.
Each win, a piece of the puzzle
And after years of testing, refining, and optimizing…
And what I found was more than a strategy.
It was the system I’d been chasing.
From Confusion to Clarity
This wasn’t just another strategy.
It was the missing link.
It wasn’t just a process.
It was the blueprint to master the market.
It transformed speculation into investing.
What once felt like gambling...
Now felt like science.
For the first time:
✔ Investing wasn’t overwhelming anymore. It was clear!
✔ I wasn’t second-guessing myself. I was confident!
✔ This wasn’t strategy. It was a transformation.
This isn’t a tactic.
It’s a transformation.
Master the Market. Build Wealth on Your Terms.
The stock market no longer controls me.
I control my results.
The stock market doesn’t control me anymore.
I control my results.
Now it’s your move.
It’s time to become a Stock Market Grandmaster.
✔ Leave the noise behind
✔ Invest with clarity
✔ Build real wealth with a system that works
One decision. One system. Everything changes.
The next move is yours.
No more second-guessing.
It’s time to move like a Stock Market Grandmaster.
That was the struggle that shaped everything.
Now here’s what inspired the system and how it can change the way you invest forever.
💡 The Moment That Inspired Evidence-Based Stock Market Mastery
You just saw the moment that sparked everything.
Now let me show you the system it inspired and how it can change the way you invest forever.
A few years ago, my wife made a bold career move.
She jumped from the finance department into equity research at a major investment bank.
She was crushing it in her role. When the bank launched a pilot program for top performers to join the research team, she jumped at the opportunity.
This was her shot. A career-defining leap.
But within weeks, she was drowning. No training. No roadmap. Just pressure.
👉 The bank gave her zero training.
One day she was thriving in finance…
the next, she was dropped into a high-pressure role with no roadmap.
She had no system for cutting through the noise.
No clarity on what made a business great.
No way to judge management.
No idea how to tell if a company was under- or overvalued.
She wasn’t alone.
Most investors are stuck in that same fog.
She was drowning in charts, numbers, and jargon...
But had no map, no compass, no way forward.
Just noise.
Maybe you’ve been there too.
Staring at your screen, overloaded with data…
But no clue where to begin.
She came to me for help. And while I could guide her here and there…
I knew what she really needed wasn’t quick answers.
She needed a repeatable process.
And watching her go through that stress
the late nights,
the doubt,
the second-guessing;
It took me right back.
Back to my own early days…
Where I was trying to piece it all together with no clear path.
Feeling like everyone else had some secret I’d never been told.
It was frustrating.
It was overwhelming.
And it was completely avoidable.
That’s when it hit me:
“If I had a real system back then, everything would’ve been different.”
Because if I did?
I would’ve skipped years of frustration
I would’ve had the confidence to invest without second-guessing
I would’ve had a massive edge over my peers
You’ve felt the struggle.
Now skip the confusion and invest with confidence.
🎯 That’s why I built Evidence-Based Stock Market Mastery
Not for theory.
Not for ego.
It’s about using the right system and playing the long game like a Stock Market Grandmaster.
This is the exact system I wish I’d had on Day 1.
The system that would’ve saved me years of frustration.
✔ It gives you structure
✔ It gives you clarity
✔ It gives you confidence
A clear, repeatable process to master the market and build wealth with confidence.
Now, I’m handing it to you, so you don’t have to struggle like we did.
Because mastery isn’t about luck.
It’s about using the right system to think like a Stock Market Grandmaster, act with precision, and win big.
👉 It’s not just your roadmap. It’s your edge.
You don’t need more noise.
You need a system.
