The central narrative of my investment narrative has never been and will never be :

a) Catching stocks at the bottom
b) Catching potential multibaggers
c) Being obsessed with the chosen few 'potential multibaggers'
d) Buying 'safe' stocks and avoiding errors at any cost.

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a) Never caught these at the bottom :

b) Never treated this as a 'potential multibagger' when I bought it, just a better-than-average candidate among others.
c) In a good economy, there are more than 50-70 stocks that do well. Being obsessed with half a dozen chosen few never bodes well.

d) Made quite a bit of mistakes on the way and ended up making a higher yield than if I had stayed put in the 'safe' i.e stagnating stocks.

Taking risks and then taking corrective measures is better than not taking risks as a core philosophy.

You don't need 'the perfect stock' to hit home run; Just need a good process

Make a watchlist of 70 'good-enough' stocks. Buy the top 35 among them, keep the remaining 35 on watchlist. Keep a revolving door policy to swap those that deserve to be on the other side of the divide

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Let's say the long term earnings yield was growing at 9%. If you bought at

(A), your returns = 5%.
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