If your first exposure to the stock market was $GME,

please know that I lost a lot of money when I first started "investing."

I bought penny stocks and tried to strike it rich FAST.

Spoiler: I didn't

The problem wasn't the stock market,

the problem was me.
The only thing I focused on was share price

I didn't know ANYTHING about the company or investing

I got my teeth kicked in.

I learn the hard way that investing isn't easy

Slowly, I got better

Those early losses shape how I invest today

But boy did it feel awful at the time
Thankfully, I didn't know ANYTHING about options at the time

If I did, I can nearly guarantee I would have been interested in them

Which mould have made the lessons much, much more painful
If you want a blow by blow for how bad I was when I started.....

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4 Feb
1/ Every now and then I read an article or paper that is SO good that I save it for future reference

It could be about investing, happiness, or life

Here's are links to my top 24 favorites 👇
2/ @morganhousel article on cash deployment strategy for when the market crashes

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3/ 7 life lesson from @jonmorrow

A guy who can't move

it's incredible

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3 Feb
1/ An ode to @JeffBezos

Jeff is stepping down from CEO and moving on to Executive Chairman

He's one of the greatest owner/operators of all time

$10,000 invested in $AMZN at IPO is currently worth

$17.3 million!

Here's a list of my favorite Bezos facts and quotes 👇 Image
2/ "We don’t celebrate a 10% increase in the stock price like

we celebrate excellent customer experience.

We aren’t 10% smarter when that happens

and conversely

aren’t 10% dumber when the stock goes the other way." Image
3/ Bezos invested $250,000 in Google in 1998

That's worth several BILLION dollars today Image
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1 Feb
1/ $NNOX FDA update:

FDA asked for more info related to:

"certain deficiencies and questions, including requests that the company provides additional support regarding the intended use of the Nanox.ARC and the comparability of the Nanox.ARC to the predicate device."
2/ $NNOX "plans to respond to these requests promptly."

$NNOX also "plans to submit an additional 510(k) premarket notification to the FDA with respect to the multiple-source Nanox.ARC and the Nanox.CLOUD during 2021."
3/ **IF** cleared, management now targeting "1,000 Nanox Systems by the end of the first quarter of 2022"

The original goal was 1,000 systems installed by the end of 2021, so the goalpost got moved back 90 days
Read 6 tweets
28 Jan
1/ My Q4 2020 $TSLA earnings notes:

Revenue +46% to $10.74 billion
Wall Street $10.38 billion - BEAT ✅

GAAP Net income +157% to $270 million
Non-GAAP net income +134% to $903 million

EPS $0.80
Wall Street $1.03 - MISS🛑

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2/ Operations

✅500k vehicles delivered in 2020
✅ Supercharge stations +41%
✅ Supercharge connectors +45%
✅ Service locations +21%
✅ Mobile fleet +11%
3/ Operations

✅Model 3/Y Shanghai
✅ Model S/X Refresh
✅ Solar deployed +59%
✅ Storage deployed +199%

Lots of products/factories in development
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26 Jan
1/ The 15 books about money that changed my life

and the key lessons from each of them (with graphics)

Who's up for a 🧵 about improving your money mindset?

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2/ Rich Dad, Poor Dad

1⃣Acquire assets, not liabilities
2⃣A house is a liability
3⃣You are in business for yourself
4⃣Work to learn
5⃣Failure inspires winners
6⃣Network
7⃣Pay yourself first
8⃣The rich don't work for money; money works for them
9⃣You get rich at home, not at work
3/ The Wealthy Barber by @wealthy_barber

1⃣Pay yourself first
2⃣One dollar saved is two dollars earned
3⃣Common sense + discipline is all you need
4⃣Society doesn't want you to save
5⃣Your "wants" will never be satisfied
6⃣6 month emergency fund = must
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1/ Today is Peter Lynch's birthday

He's one of the greatest investors of all time

Retuning 29.2% annually from 1977-1990

Here are my favorite quotes from this fountain of investing wisdom

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2/ "Everyone has the brainpower

to make money in stocks.

Not everyone has the stomach."
3/ “Nothing has occurred to shake my conviction that the

typical amateur has advantages over the typical

pro­fes­sional fund jockey."
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