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Monday Dirty Dozen [CHART PACK] #6
People need to have a perceptual filter that matches the way they think. The appropriate perceptual filter for a trader has more to do with how well it fits a trader’s mental strategy, his mode of thinking and decision making, than how well it accounts for market activity. When a person gets to know any…
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Episode 22: Mid-Caps & More with George Livadas, Upslope Capital
Episode 22 is live!This week we’ve got George Livadas on the show. George is the founder and portfolio manager of Upslope Capital. George graduated with a Russian degree, but found his way into investment banking at Citigroup. He worked in IB covering the brokerage and can producer industries (to name a couple).George loves investing, but…
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Another Round of Q1 Investor Letters: New Ideas & Fresh Perspectives
We had a lot go down in the value space last week. Remember when I got all excited for Michael Burry being on Twitter? Yeah, that’s gone. Get a load of this:Damnit, Twitter! For once we couldn’t play nice. We drove the death-metal-listening investor to the hills. There goes my chance of getting him on…
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Monday Dirty Dozen [CHART PACK] #5
While amateurs go broke by taking large losses, professionals go broke by taking small profits. The problem, in a nutshell, is that human nature does not operate to maximize gain but rather to maximize the chance of a gain. ~ William Eckhardt In this week’s Dirty Dozen [CHART PACK] we look at BAD earnings revisions,…
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Episode 21: How To Fix A Business In 100 Days w/ Jeff Sands, Dorset Partners
What better time to have a turnaround expert on the show, right? Jeff Sands is a 3x winner of the Turnaround Of The Year award (2017-2019), and he’s got a good shot at 2020. He spent his early career working in his family business. When outside pressures rattled the company, Jeff realized two…
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Q1 Letters Are Here: The Latest Ideas From Our Favorite Investors
Do you know what time it is? It’s Q1 Investor Letter time! That’s right. My four favorite market times of the year. The time where I read letters from investors much smarter than myself. Each time I come away with new ideas, new models of thought and insight into a different part of the market.Before…
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Monday Dirty Dozen [CHART PACK] #4
Years of experience eventually teach you that your main battle, always, is with yourself — your propensity for errors, for rationalizing marginal hands into good hands, lack of concentration, misreading other players, emotional eruptions, impatience, and so on. Your opponents are merely dim outlines that come and go. Few of them ever reach the exalted …
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Episode 20: Survival of The Permanent w/ Brent Beshore, Permanent Equity
We’ve made it to a huge milestone: 20 podcast episodes.We couldn’t have done it without you, our listener base. Y’all keep the lights on and help spread the word about what we’re doing.For our 20th episode, we chat with Brent Beshore, CEO and Founder of Permanent Equity.We’re living in unprecedented times. COVID-19 is wreaking havoc…
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The “Out Front” Maneuver
You have to recognize that every “out-front” maneuver is going to be lonely. But if you feel entirely comfortable, then you’re not far enough ahead to do any good. That warm sense of everything going well is usually the body temperature at the center of the herd. Only if you’re far enough ahead to be…
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Burry Finds Twitter, Japanese Net-Nets and How To Invest in Distress
We made it past Q1 2020. Are you still alive? Times like these remind us that one thing (truly) matters: Staying Alive. Outsized returns are nice, of course. But what really matters is not losing your money. If you can keep some poker chips with you, you’ll always have a seat at the table. That’s…