In a couple of years, while the business is still at its nascent stages, you want to bring someone to be the CEO (essentially a late co-founder). That person has the following demands.
1. 40% stake in the business, immediately vested. 2. 5% of all net profits (on a monthly net profit basis) paid out as salary. 3. No cap on (2).
This person hasn't proven themselves yet to be a great capital allocator or a CEO, hasn't executed and brought in profits. But they are asking all this to do that. What do you do?
Once you answer the poll option, comment with WHY or WHY NOT you'd do that. Solid reasoning is appreciated.
Sorry for the confusion. The third option is - "All 3 if it is my spouse".
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Almost all the decisions in life that I regret were taken under strong emotional influence.
Looking back, this is the one thing that stands out. Whether it's greed, anger, hatred, vengeance, or just exuberance, every regretful decision has been made with emotions.
We only think that it's an emotional decision if we are overtly angry or overtly happy. But that need not be the case. Hope is an emotion. Greed is an emotion. Fear, even slightly is an emotion. When you're standing on a fence, a small emotion can nudge you to either side.
So, when making decisions that usually require a lot of changes in your life, think it through and see if any hope, desire, greed, fear, etc., have crept into the decision making process.
Different kind of systems you can build for trading & investing - a broad categorization:
1. Market Neutral:
Ex: Finding overvalued and undervalued securities, shorting the overvalued ones, and buying the undervalued ones. The idea is to create a portfolio of zero beta.
This way, you operate independent of market risk, and profit from the movement of individual securities.
2. Fundamental Growth:
Fundamentally identifying companies that are expected to grow and appreciate capital. You go long with these securities.
3. Fundamental Value:
Using fundamental analysis to go long in undervalued (and sometimes even deep value distressed securities).
4. Quantitative directional:
Using quantitative analysis to identify overvalued/undervalued companies, going long on latter, short on former.
Journaling is a very important thing to do if you're a trader. It serves the following purposes:
- Helps identify patterns in your trading behavior
- Helps identify high-impact mistakes to fix
- Helps to understand where you're losing most money
- Helps in refining your edge.
Journaling your way to success isn't a new concept. It's been done for years now and has been practiced and advised by many millionaires, billionaires too.
Different kinds of journaling serve different purposes. There are two major ones that I follow I'd like to suggest here.
The first one is the one that I learnt from @GrantCardone.
Just before going to bed, and immediately after waking up - write down 10-15 things that you want to have achieved for yourself and your life in the future.
Write them in the present tense as if you already have them.
If I remember correctly, about 40-45% of the trading days in a year start at or near day's low/high and close at or near day's high/low respectively.
This means, if your system can reasonably get the direction right, a fixed stop loss system will end up making you the most.
This is applicable for intraday trend following systems. For trailing stop losses to work really well, you need a much bigger room, and that has to be driven by volatility of the instrument you trade.
No matter what you trade, TEST the SL methods before implementing.
Apple is by now only milking whatever brand value they have left, from their customers, with only superior OS experience.
This is moat of the biggest form. Apple spends 120-150$ on iPhone cost. Makes 3-4x in profits. They keep raising prices and dropping parts to reduce their cost and maximize profit in the name of "reducing environmental impact".
And no matter what kind of shenanigans Apple pulls, their loyal braindead fanbase is going to buy their gadgets coz you only show iPhone as status symbol, not a OnePlus or a Samsung or a Pixel.