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17 Nov, 18 tweets, 1 min read
1/ Homeowners can get guaranteed high returns through energy savings projects (thread)

I've done many of them myself and now have ridiculously low energy bills, which PERMANENTLY lowers a fixed-cost

Here are 15 ideas

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2/ Install LED lightbulbs everywhere

A few hundred dollars cover the whole house

Easy and ROI well over 100%
3/ Programmable thermostat

ROI 25% to 100%+ depending on how advanced you go
4/ Seal door/window/basement/attic air leaks w/ caulk or Great Stuff

ROI 50%+
5/ Water-saving faucet/showerhead

ROI 50%+ depending on model
6/ Insulate water heater

ROI 100%+
7/ Weatherstrip windows/doors

ROI 33%+
8/ Tune-up heating/cooling equipment

ROI 33%+, plus extends the life of the unit
9/ Extra ceiling insulation

ROI 20%+
10/ Extra floor insulation

ROI 20%+
11/ Storm door/windows

ROI 10%+
12/ Upgrade heating/cooling system

ROI 5%+
13/ Add wall insulation

ROI 8%+
14/ Window/door replacement

ROI 3%+
15/ Solar panels

ROI 8%+
16/ Lots of utilities offer rebates/incentives of projects, which can massively increase the ROI

Check on your utilities' website for current promotions
17/ Hire an energy auditor

Some utilities cover them for free

Otherwise, it's just a few hundred dollars

Well worth the cost, especially if you home is 10+ years old
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11 Nov
1/ How to find insider ownership (thread)

Go to the SEC EDGAR database sec.gov/edgar/searched…

Enter the stock symbol in "fast search"

Let's use Mark Zuckerberg from $FB as an example

Click "Insider transactions for this issuer" (see image)
2/ Click on the insider's name

In this case, Zuckerberg Mark

You can also search for "CEO" if you don't know their name
3/ Click on the most recent Form 4 for the insider
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10 Nov
1/ When to sell (thread)

Selling is harder than buying

I rarely sell, but that doesn't mean I don't ever

Here are the 11 reasons I will sell

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2/ Thesis Busted

If I was wrong about the company, I will sell

In the past, I've been wrong about:
+Brand deteriorates $UA
+Moat $GRUB
+Outside forces $KMI

Other reasons:
+Company being disrupted
+Management can't execute
+Legal rulings

I was wrong = sell
3/ Account Irregulatires

If I can't trust the numbers, how can I make ANY decisions?

There's NOTHING that $LK can do to convince me to buy now. That company is dead to me forever.
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7 Nov
1/ YouTube is an AMAZING resource when used properly (Thread)

Here are my favorite YouTube channels:

Top 5:

Mark Rober - @MarkRober
Real Engineering
Smarter Every Day - @smartereveryday
Stuff Made Here - @stuffmadehere
Wintegartan - @wintergatan

More 👇👇👇👇👇
2/ Building:

Adam Savage's Tested
April Wilkerson
I Like To Make Stuff
Laura Kampf
Make Something
Matt Risinger
Modern Home Project
Primitive Technology
This Old House
What's Inside
Wintegartan
3/ Chess:

Agadmator's Chess Channel
Chess with Suren
Ginger GM
GJ Chess
GMBenjamin Feingold
GMHikaru
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6 Nov
1/ What is the 'Dow Jones Industrial Average'? (Thread)

In 1896, Charles Dow was an editor at The Wall Street Journal

There wasn’t an easy way for Dow to recap the market’s daily moves. Some stocks were up, others were down

He asked his business associate Edward Jones for help
2/ Edward Jones was a statistician. He helped Dow invent a solution.

Dow and Jones added up the share price of the 12 most popular companies, many of which were industrial stocks.

The total was then divided by 12 -- or averaged

The 'Dow Jones Industrial Average' was born
3/ On May 26, 1896, the average price of the original 12 Dow Jones Industrial Average stocks was $40.94.

Using price as a measuring stick made calculating the average easy (no computers at the time)

This is why the Dow is called a 'price-weighted index'
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5 Nov
1/ Part 2 - Is this company high quality?

Take score from part 1:

Then we subtract scores for big risks in the 'gauntlet'

Max gauntlet score -54

Here's the step-by-step process

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2/ Gauntlet

Accounting Irregularities

-10

(maybe it should be -50)
3/ Gauntlet

Customer concentration

(pull up annual report and search "concentration")

-5: >20% of revenue from 1/few customers

-3: >10% of revenue from 1/few customers

0: No customers >10% of revenue
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5 Nov
1/ Is this company high-quality? (Thread)

Many factors to consider -- why checklists are amazing!

Here's my step-by-step process for figuring that out

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2/ Score overview:

2 step process

Step 1: 100 points total, weighed by importance

Categories & max score:
Financials: 17
Moat: 20
Potential: 18
Customers: 10
Revenue: 10
Mgmt/Culture: 14
Stock: 11

Step 2 will be covered in another thread (I ran out of tweets)
3/ Financial:

Q: All things equal, would you rather have a cash-heavy balance sheet or debt-heavy?

A: Cash-heavy

0 - 5 possible

0 - tons of debt, 0 cash
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5 - tons of cash, 0 debt
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