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One of my favorite Investing books is The Most Important Thing by Howard Marks.
Here are the 10 most important things in investing:
The Most Important Thing is...
1. ... a Solidly Based, Strongly Held Estimate of Intrinsic Value - Intelligent investing must be based on intrinsic value.
Have an estimate and pay significantly less.
2. ... Investing Defensively - Avoid the losers, and the winners will take care of themselves.
"Defensive investing" sounds erudite. I can simplify it: Invest scared!
3. ... Avoiding Bad Years - Match bull markets and set the seed for outperformance in bear markets.
4. ... Facing up to the Limits of your Knowledge of the Macro Future - There's an "I know" School and an "I don't know" School.
The former believes in their ability to forecast what's coming. The latter doesn't.
5. ... Being Mindful of cycles - Ignoring cycles and extrapolating recent trends will lead to mistakes.
6. ... Contrarian Behavior - Only unpopular assets can be truly cheap.
Mainstream opinions create mainstream performance.
7. ... Patient Opportunism - You only need one or two good ideas a year.
So choose them wisely and be patient and thorough.
8. ... Preserving Investment Flexibility -
Things to be flexible with:
- Specific Strategies and Tactics
Things not to be flexible with:
- Philosophy
- Investment Goals
- Investment Strategy
9. ... Understanding the Implications of Market Efficiency - The biggest opportunities are found outside the mainstream.
(Microcaps, Special Situations, Neglected/Unpopular Stocks)
10. ... Acknowledging the Impact of Uncontrollable Factors - Some things are just out of your control.
The best protection against that is playing the long game.
What's your favorite Learning from Howard Marks?
🏆 This portfolio massively outperformed the S&P500
It probably will continue to outperform over the next decade too
Here are 15 Quality stocks you've never heard of:
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Here's a new @FT report on how the Biden State Dept, the CIA and the Pentagon engaged in "very unusual" efforts to shape Brazil's 2022 presidential election, and specifically to undermine Bolsonaro's narrative about election integrity and fraud:
https://t.co/kuXGG5uvXv
Have you ever noticed that the save icon is a floppy disk, even though they became obsolete twenty years ago?
That's called a "skeuomorph" - when something new takes on the appearance of what it replaced.
And once you start to look, they're everywhere...
Bernard Arnault displaced Elon Musk as the world's wealthiest person.
But there's more.
His company is now worth more than Tesla.
He's the CEO of LVMH (Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy).
Here's a look at the company and how they make money.
$LVMUY $TSLA
https://t.co/QD6KGwolM1
Cloud market - AWS has the biggest market share
Will Azure and Google Cloud one day catch up and surpass AWS?
Microsoft Google Amazon $MSFT $GOOG $AMZN
Apple Services made $19.2 billion last quarter.
It was more than:
🔴 Netflix $NFLX
🟠 Mastercard $MA
🟢 Spotify $SPOT
🟣 HBO Max & Discovery+ $WBD
Combined.
$AAPL