Understanding the Market cycles and the factors that impact them (Capital availability, attitudes towards risk, optimism/pessimism taken to extremes) can be really helpful for long-term investors.
✔️On what causes Cycles and why trends go to excess
✔️The role of optimism and how it feeds on itself and is taken to extremes
✔️Beautiful explanation of how the attitude towards Risk changes thru the cycle
✔️How Capital availability chases and changes Asset prices
✔️My fav slides. How the market cycles unfold and crowd psychology changes
✔️Good pts on contrarianism and long-term focus.
✔️Summary and some of my fav pts.
Few ways awareness of Market cycles helps LT investors is in
1) not getting carried away by the current sentiment and to stay on the long-term course.
2) being on the lookout for excesses in the Market and changing posture between offense & defense (at least around the edges)
3) identify when the stock prices are being taken too far away from the reasonable intrinsic values of the business (in both directions) and slowly take advantage of the opportunities being provided to buy/sell.
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Happy to share that Intuitive Surgical $ISRG finally became a 5⃣0⃣ bagger for me as of today (first tranche bought at the depths of GFC in March'09). The next two tranches from Nov'10 and May'14 also did their thing being 10+ baggers.
After $LULU did it's 100 bagger for me back in 2021 this is the next one to hit 50+ milestone.
Peter Lynch was right. Regular folks can achieve (but can't plan) for these, with some common sense investing + lot of patience when thesis is on track + even bigger amounts of luck.
@DavidGFool I gotta thank whoever was writing the free articles about $ISRG back during GFC on @themotleyfool 👏, as I would not have known about the company so early otherwise.
Small adds to existing pos
$META (Social is done)
$NOW (Who needs IT monitoring anyway?)
$ALGN (Everyone from now one will have perfectly aligned teeth)
$SQ (hey guys, focus plz, actually)
$MDB (Recession will kill need for DBs).
Kidding aside, the next few qtrs are highly uncertain from a lot of aspects, but not all Cos are the same when it comes to credit dependence for capital stack/customer demand...
..cyclicality and severity of business impact during an actual recession, runway for core growth post any recession, ability to use this period to acquire smaller competitors etc.