🔟Investing concepts that blew my mind🤯when I read them, and greatly helped my investing journey.

Would love to know about some of yours.

@saxena_puru @BrianFeroldi @GavinSBaker @7Innovator @dhaval_kotecha @Gautam__Baid @richard_chu97 @10kdiver @FromValue @investing_city
Below thread has the references to each of these 10 concepts.

Note : Many of these are my past Tweets related to these topics. Not trying to self promote them. Adding them only because they have the original links, added context and my highlights & fav pts.

Let's dive in. ⬇️⬇️
1⃣ Benjamin Graham's Mr. Market analogy.

An extremely useful concept, especially when

Market is panicking (& throwing out good Co's at bargain prices) & when

Market is too complacent (& awarding high valuations to hype and stories)

2⃣ Philip Fisher's hyper-focus on growth stocks (written 60 years ago).

Very useful and mostly still applicable stuff on how to deeply analyze Growth Co's (except Stock based Compensation & Adjusted EBITDA of course😄)

3⃣ Peter Lynch’s empowering writing on the edge of the individual investor when they invest in what they know (or can learn).



4⃣ Warren Buffet's & Pat Dorsey's explanations of Economic Moats.

5⃣ Seth Klarman's 2007 speech to MIT grads - about Investor psychology & Housing crisis (Speech given 11 days before the Market topped in ’07).

I read this in early Sep 2008, which clearly explained what was going on even as the events were unfolding.

grahamanddoddsville.net/wordpress/File…
6⃣ Clayton Christensen's writing on Disruptive Innovation (the focus of Innovators & the constraints of incumbents).

Excellent Summary ⬇️

medium.com/@duartem/summa…
7⃣ Brian Arthur's 1996 article "Increasing Returns and the New World of Business".

An extremely prescient writing on how things actually turned out in Tech in the next two decades.

8⃣ Bill Gurley's "Above the Crowd" posts from early 2000s on Software & Marketplaces.

abovethecrowd.com/archives/

9⃣ Adam Hartung’s writing on Trends & disruptive companies.

His writing helped me to observe and give more importance to strong/sustainable ongoing trends, and in identifying/analyzing the Winners.

adamhartung.com/adams-blog/
🔟 Ben Thompson's Aggregation Theory & Platform companies.

Helped me truly understand the power of Digital & how these Winners are different from past.

Defining Aggregators
stratechery.com/2017/defining-…

Moat Map
stratechery.com/2018/the-moat-…

Aggregation Theory
stratechery.com/2015/aggregati…
Good returns are what we're after (in the end) but investing is much more fun when you learn the best concepts out there (from the great investors & business thinkers), blend them in to your own process to make it better.
Strong basics/concepts, pattern recognition and keeping your process updated is the recipe for good and sustainable results.

Anyway, this is a thread I enjoyed thinking about the putting together. Hope some people find it useful.

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"Digging for Value" - Great website for Investing Book summaries. 📚👏

cc: @dmuthuk @Gautam__Baid

Some of my fav ones in the thread below.⬇️⬇️

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Happy 2⃣0⃣2⃣1⃣ to all.🎇

For any Learning machines out there, here are a list of my fav online investing resources. Feel free to add yours.

Let's dive in.
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Investing Services

✔️ @themotleyfool - @TMFStockAdvisor & @TMFRuleBreakers services

✔️ @7investing

✔️ @investing_city
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✔️ @MorningstarInc Premium

✔️ @SeekingAlpha Marketplaces (Check your area of interest, Free trials, Quality, track record...)
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My holdings going into 2⃣0⃣2⃣1⃣ (not recommendations).

No idea how their stocks will perform in 2021, but fairly confident of their strong Business performance in the next few years (well, in most cases) in the normal or social-distancing scenarios.
Before someone comments

This is a mashup of TWO portfolios (hence the higher # of Co's).

Personally, I like a mix of mostly growth Co's with some stable/high quality Co's and few dividend focused Co's.
Just like investing is a highly personal journey (based on our goals, risk tolerance, time horizons, capabilities & strategies), the optimal # holdings in each Portfolio is also very subjective.
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31 Dec 20
Great article on some important lessons from Warren Buffett. 👏

Below thread has the 15 lessons/quotes and my comments for each.

medium.com/swlh/16-lesson…
1⃣ “We want the business to be (1) one that we can understand, (2) with favorable long-term prospects, (3) operated by honest and competent people, and (4) available at a very attractive price.”

Understand the company, the industry, the team, and the price. Solid points.
2⃣ “We ordinarily make no attempt to buy equities for anticipated favorable stock price behavior in the short term.”

Filter for and buy Co's with a long-term lens. Get used to under and over valuation in the short term (and ignore when not related to Co performance).
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30 Dec 20
When people say "Valuation doesn't matter" is precisely the time we need to be more cautious and know the difference between (Intrinsic) Value & (Mkt) Price.

Excellent Site based on A. Damodaran's "The Little Book of Valuation"👏

@dmuthuk @Gautam__Baid

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✔️Intrinsic versus Relative Value
✔️Time Value of Money and concept of Discounting
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✔️Young Growth Co.'s
✔️Growth Co.'s
✔️Mature Co.'s
✔️Declining & Distressed Co.'s

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✔️Commodities & Cyclicals
✔️High Intangible Assets
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Stuff we should care even more about, when Markets and our Portfolios are at All Time Highs.

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The differences between Theory and Markets.
Classification of decision-making biases and errors in the above article.
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