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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My fav investing Teachers & what I learned from them.
✔️Long-term focus🔭
Warren Buffett
Charlie Munger
Chuck Akre
✔️Growth📈
Philip Fisher
Clayton Christensen
David Gardner
✔️Behavioral🧠
Benjamin Graham
Howard Marks
Seth Klarman
✔️Process🗒️
Peter Lynch
Pat Dorsey
Nick Sleep
Some key points on each.
✔️Long-term focus
Buffett : Business Owner mindset (as an investor) will prompt you to think/act long-term. Time is a friend of excellent Business and a foe of the mediocre ones.
Munger : Learn and practice multi-disciplinary thinking. Patience & common sense are rewarded in the long-term.
Akre : Developing a simple approach (for buying/holding) that will help you stay with the good companies for a long time.
I love this new format even more as it lists the stocks mentioned (if any in detail) in the letters.
Always good to read well researched/written long or short commentary from some smart investors on our Portfolio/Watchlist companies.
My fav pts from some new ones I read recently in the thread below.
✔️Guardian Funds on investing in
-Thriving Digitally native businesses
-Founders that focus on culture, innovation, long-term thinking
-having an owner mindset as an investor
Anyone who signs stuff - "I can't wait to get back to pen/paper signing and waste a bunch of time going around places signing stuff."
2⃣ $TWLO
Developers : I hate using easy-to-use Communication APIs in all my channels and would love to re-create the wheel myself by spending a lot of time/effort.
We went thru US and Eurozone recession fears, three US Presidential elections, Brexit, Terrorism events, many Taper tantrums, a deadly Pandemic and many more major events/headlines and here we are.
I take screenshots like these during Bear Markets and extreme volatility periods (took many during GFC, Fall 2011, Feb 2016, 4Q-2018, March 2020...) as a reminder that whatever is the news of the day will blow over and the real issues (GFC/COVID...) will get resolved with time.