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Pure value investor | 15.77% CAGR | One high-conviction move at a time | Margin of safety first. Building financial freedom through discipline.

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🧵 A History of Hysteria

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History is full of markets that convinced themselves “this time is different.”
The pattern rarely is.

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Another day where strong prior expectations met softer current numbers.

Some businesses delivered growth that still disappointed the price the market had already assigned to them.

Others simply reset the trajectory lower.

Price adjusts in hours.

Normalized earning power adjusts more slowly.

The useful question remains the same:

At the new price, with the new information, does a genuine margin of safety now exist, or is the market still pricing a future that has not yet been earned?

Process over reaction.

$FISV $MFC

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Market open.

Some names reacting to earnings.

Others reacting to expectations that had already run ahead of the numbers.

Price discovers opinions quickly.

Intrinsic value moves much more slowly.

The gap between the two is where the work remains.

$FLUT $PLTR $NVDA

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$FISV after earnings:

🔴 Organic revenue −5% in the quarter

🔴 Adjusted EPS $1.84 (missed expectations)

🔴 Full-year organic revenue outlook cut to −1% to 0%

🔴 Adjusted EPS guidance lowered to $7.20–$7.40 (from $8.00–$8.30)

The business is still generating substantial free cash flow and remains a scaled player in payments and financial technology.

The question for a value investor is straightforward:

Does the new, lower trajectory of earning power, at today’s reduced price, now embed a meaningful margin of safety, or is further deterioration still required before the gap is wide enough?

Process first. Price second.

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@galacticbae__ Aren’t we all

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@MarketBubble High hit rates are rare in any field that involves uncertainty.
Position sizing and the willingness to be wrong without permanent damage matter more than the highlight reel.

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@AnonxWeb3 Record highs are not a valuation method. They are simply the latest price the market was willing to pay.

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@MebFaber Perspective is underrated…

Most modern portfolio anxiety looks almost luxurious once you stack it against actual historical hardship

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@BrianFeroldi The blindness is usually temporary

The damage from paying prices that assume perfection tends to last longer

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A margin of safety does not require predicting the top.

It only requires refusing to pay prices that assume perfection.

History has been consistent on what happens when that standard is abandoned.

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🧵 A History of Hysteria

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History is full of markets that convinced themselves “this time is different.”
The pattern rarely is.

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The useful lesson is not that bubbles are unpredictable.

It is that the gap between price and intrinsic value is measurable,

and when that gap disappears,

risk is no longer theoretical.

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New highs.

Falling oil on deal hopes.

Another round of “this changes everything.”

The market is excellent at pricing the latest headline.

It is far less reliable at pricing the durable earning power of a business.

When prices run hard on narrative, the margin of safety usually shrinks.

That is the moment process matters more than participation.

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Most people spend the weekend looking for the next trade.

The better question is whether anything material changed in the businesses you already own.

Price moved.
Narratives shifted.
Opinions multiplied.

Intrinsic value usually did none of those things.

That’s the quiet advantage of requiring a margin of safety before you act and the discipline not to act when it isn’t there.

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@michaeljburry Helps clarify a lot of questions, thanks for the insight once again Dr. Burry !

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@DDelishus4627 Too bad he doesn’t have telegram, nice try though “Deanna”

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No matter the outcome at market open to
tomorrow,

as time goes by,

Equity prices align with Fair Value