Category: Research
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Short Selling Isn’t Dead, You’re Just Doing It Wrong
“Short sellers are the market’s police officers. If short selling were to go away, the market would levitate even more than it currently does.” – Seth Klarman Seth Klarman’s positive take stands in stark contrast to the current zeitgeist…So are we seeing the end of short selling? The answer is a definitive no. It’s just…
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Gold is Starting its Next Bull Leg…
“Remember, in life, time rather than money is the most important currency, and we all have only a finite amount of time (at least until they figure out life extension). You can win money, lose money, and earn it back again. But time is something that you can never get back, so making good decisions…
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Consumer Picks & Shovels: How Companies Help Customers Find Gold
“When everyone is looking for gold, it’s a good time to be in the pick and shovel business.” – Mark Twain. We’re in the midst of another gold rush. It doesn’t look or feel like the first one. No, today’s gold rush lives inside every consumer e-commerce purchase.The 1847 gold rush taught us something. Actual wealth creation didn’t…
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Equity Positioning at RECORD Levels
“Whoever wishes to foresee the future must consult the past; for human events ever resemble those of preceding times…this arises from the fact that they are produced by men who have been, and ever will be, animated by the same passions.” ~ Niccolò Machiavelli Good morning!In this week’s Dirty Dozen [CHART PACK] we look at…
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5 Investing Lessons From A Year of Podcasting
A year ago, I launched the Macro Ops investing podcast, Value Hive. I wrestled with starting such a venture. Who would listen to me? How would I snag guests for the show? Am I a good interviewer? Not to mention I hate how I sound and tend to wrestle with a slight stutter.Yet record I…
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A Bull Market In Wheat
When you develop a desire for trading, you must realize that the desire originates from the greed for profit and that it is only a feeling that has little to do with the possibility of making actual profits. Therefore, you need to identify and control the greed when it grows in you. Meticulous analysis of…
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Notes on Q1 Performance, Gold, Ethereum, EURUSD…
He also taught me one other thing that is absolutely critical: You have to be willing to make mistakes regularly; there is nothing wrong with it. Michael taught me about making your best judgment, being wrong, making your next best judgment, being wrong, making your third best judgment, and then doubling your money. That’s from…
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Crossing The Chasm: Deep Dive Book Review
Crossing The Chasm is one of the most transformative books in technology entrepreneurship. By Geoffrey Moore, the book helps tech companies make the leap between convincing early adopters and selling to the mainstream market. The “chasm,” of course, is the middle ground between those early adopters and the mainstream market. Companies that successfully cross the…
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A Buy Climax is Coming…
“In the United States problems of economic understanding have been compounded by the effect of economic prosperity. The Japanese in World War II spike ruefully of shoribyo or “victory disease.” The Greeks called it hubris, and thought that it always ended in the intervention of the goddess Nemesis. That lady makes her appearance when wave-riders…
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Ben Gordon: The Hunt For Extraordinary Returns
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