Category: Research
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Let The Investor Letters Roll In
It’s my favorite time of the year … Hedge Fund Annual Letters! We’ll spend the next few weeks reviewing our favorite value managers’ letters. We talk about broad market concepts, specific investment ideas and what companies they love most.Before we dive in, make sure to listen to our latest podcast episodes: Episode 6: Joe Boskovich…
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Question From Readers: Systematizing Idea Generation
Last week I received an email from a reader, David. Here’s the text: I’ve found what you have been doing to be interesting. I’m wondering if you follow any funds to get ideas from. Quite honestly, I haven’t been able to think of any good ideas on stocks in awhile, and it has lead me…
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Your Monday Dirty Dozen [CHART PACK] #16
Since the mid-1980s, my mantra for this process is ‘strong opinions, weakly held.’ Allow your intuition to guide you to a conclusion, no matter how imperfect — this is the ‘strong opinion’ part. Then — and this is the ‘weakly held’ part — prove yourself wrong. Engage in creative doubt…Eventually, your intuition will kick in…
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The MOST Important Fundamental: The Global Shortage of Safe Assets
Let’s talk about this tweet from the very astute Mark Dow.Asset shortages are something I’ve been writing about for the past 3-years now (Collective members can find a report I put together on it back in early 2018 titled “A Persistent Bid”).They’ve been the primary driver of this bull market, which is now the longest…
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Musings: Only 50% up! What are you doing?
Alex here with your latest Friday Macro Musings…As always, if you come across something cool during the week, shoot an email to alex@macro-ops.com and we’ll share it with the group.Latest Articles/Podcasts/Videos — Your Monday Dirty Dozen [CHART PACK] — I play devil’s advocate to my bearish bonds thesis is still valid and then discuss what…
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My Three Stock Picks For The 2020 MO Stock Picking Competition
Before I get to my three picks I want to remind all fellow Collective members that our 2020 Stock Picking Competition officially kicks off next Monday. The deadline to get your three picks in is by end of day Friday. If you want to play just shoot me an email at alex@macro-ops.com or post your…
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Akre’s Take on Selling, Market Delusions and Float
I went 3-for-4 in my weekend football picks. Not bad. Now if only I put some money on those convictions! As a Redskins fan, I’m a big Kirk Cousins guy. Would love to see him win a Superbowl.Let’s get to a housekeeping note. I’ll be in Charlotte, NC until Jan. 24th. If you’re a Value…
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Your Monday Dirty Dozen [CHART PACK] #15
…the poker world is so competitive that if you don’t fully capitalize on every advantage, you’re not going to survive. I absolutely understood that concept by the time I got down to the options floor. I learned more about options trading strategy by playing poker than I did in all my college economics courses combined. …