TLI's RULES:
I Never:
- I never use leverage
- I never short
- I never use options
- I never use margin
- I never think short term
- I never use emotions to invest.
I Always:
- I always do a full analysis, both technically and fundamentally before I buy.
- I always DCA into a position (usually 5 buys of my total allocation)
- I have never rushed a buy, I usually take days, even weeks to finally buy.
- I would sooner rather let a stock run instead of chasing to buy (we always catch the pull back)
- I know that opportunities are available every day - I know that discipline and execution is the difference between successful and unsuccessful investing.
The uncomfortable truth about opportunity is that it never comes with guarantees. By the time you have permission, perfect information, and a
"risk-free" path forward, the opportunity is gone. Every meaningful reward in life sits on the other side of uncertainty. The business everyone said would fail. The move to a new city without a safety net. The conversation you've been avoiding. The career pivot that makes no sense on paper. But while you're waiting for permission, the opportunity is slipping away. The window is smaller than you think. Take the leap.
Sometimes I really think 2019 was the last normal year of our lives and ever since, it feels like we've slipped into some alternate reality where nothing makes sense, everyone is on edge, time moves too fast yet too slow, and the world we knew just doesn't exist anymore.
I am sure I am not the only one who feels this way!
The best revenge is none.
Time exposes, karma corrects, and God humbles.
You don't have to match energy. You don't have to prove a point. Life has a way of revealing truth without your help. Let people talk, let them doubt, let them walk away. Your growth will do the explaining.
Stay focused on your lane. Protect your peace.
Elevate in silence. Because the most powerful move you can make is choosing healing over hate, and purpose over pettiness.
Let them watch. Let them wonder. And when they realize what they lost, it'll be too late. You didn't get even. You got better.
Being too humble will have you overlooked and underpaid. Closed mouths do not get fed and playing small does not open big doors.
You can be grateful and still demand what you are worth.
You can be respectful and still take up space.
The world does not reward the ones who shrink themselves to be liked. It rewards the ones who know their value and move like it.
📈 $SPY Powell > Trump?
• Much needed dip!
• Powell Came in with the grinch for Xmas.
• If in the next couple of days we can fill the island bottom it will act as a strong support and I will be looking to long there.
• This was definitely a very hard dump. Big drop.
• Dead cat bounce to 600 and then we head back lower? This was a long awaited correction and I am ready for the bottom snipe again.
• Bottom snipe comes in at 577-575 range.
FLOW UPDATE: $NVDA calls picked up on the dip into lows. $TSLA longer dated positions still positioned with IV dipping on them heavily.
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My financial success stems from 2 very important things 👇
1. My ability to observe. I've made millions of dollars from being able to observe Patterns/Trends and recognize when to act on these setups to make money. Patterns/Trends exist in all industries- Real estate, retail, fashion, stocks etc. Learn to develop the habit of seeing trends and it will eventually come natural when observing stocks
2. The patience to wait. Having the patience to observe the market for day to weeks at a time and executing with conviction is what can and will make you rich.
I'm not a master of technical analysis. I'm not great at reading financial reports or understanding the core fundamentals of a company and YOU DON'T NEED TO BE A GENIUS IN ORDER TO BECOME FINANCIALLY WEALTHY. You just need to master yourself and be disciplined
Most of you underestimate what you can do in a year.
1 year of consistent exercise will transform your health.
1 year of meditation will make you more patient than 99% of the world.
1 year of reading self help books will strengthen your mindset.
Do all of these things and everyone around you won't recognize who you are in one year. Hard work beats talent. It always will. If you have both, you will be unstoppable. It's your time to level up. You owe it to yourself.
$NVDA $INTC
In September 2020, two CNBC analysts had a bet. One of the analysts said that in a year, Intel would outperform Nvidia.
A year later, $NVDA was +77% & $INTC was +7%.
One of the analysts, Josh Brown, said something that really resonated with me around investing in technology companies:
“I don't disagree that valuation doesn't matter. But honestly, if it were that easy to look at EBITDA/EV or P/E ratios, everybody would be rich. What's required, especially in technology and maybe more so than any other sector, is an imagination. So there's all these guys walking around Wall Street and they're like "Oh I'm a numbers guy." Sure, that's great but every number you could locate, I could find too with a google search. There's no edge. Anybody could see that $INTC was cheaper than $NVDA on every metric, what's required is imagination, creativity. Many of the types of people on Wall Street don't have that."
Couple takeaways from this since it's the first time I heard this characterization of technology investing:
- The argument around numbers giving no competitive edge is something I heard before but I needed to hear it again. EVERYONE has the numbers. They are public and anyone can find them. If that's the case, there is no number that Wall Street doesn't know that you may no (outside of rare circumstances) which means you cannot develop a thesis on a technology/growth stock purely on numbers. The numbers and expected numbers are usually always priced in.
- The idea around imagination was really important to me. Having an imagination will allow you to see beyond the horizon, expand the traditional concepts of TAM, try to find where the demand exists, and then build a thesis on how large the business could be. If you could see that Nvidia was moving beyond CPUs into GPUs and then ALSO saw what the GPUs could be used for (LLMs) and then ALSO see the paradigm shift large language models would usher in, you could have had the imagination to see that $NVDA could grow into a $3T company. The numbers didn't show that at all, but understanding the possibilities and potential of the business did.
Imagination isn't the only thing needed to invest in tech, but to have ANY competitive alpha against what is already known, there needs to be some level of imagining what a company could turn into vs. what the street expects it to turn into in order to place a bet and see that thesis play out in a way that could provide asymmetric upside.
Contrary to what most people probably think I don’t actually make money every single day trading…If I did, I probably be a billionaire by now. Seriously though.. Without losses, you CAN’T be a winner.
Win or loss I make sure I maintain the same routine every day.
Every day I show up and give it my all, no matter the market conditions
Every day I strive to learn something new every day.
Every day I try my best to follow my trading rules. This is what keeps me in the game.
Every day I stay patient when the setups aren’t there, and act decisively when the time is right
Every day I Keep a positive mindset focused on long-term success, not daily wins
Consistency isn’t about winning every day.. it’s about showing up, staying disciplined, and learning both WINS and LOSSES.