List of Books. Subscriptions. Newsletters. Websites. Stock Picking Patterns. Fund Managers, Businesses I Invested heavily, etc.
Books i love to re-read irrespective of market cycles:
1) The Snowball.
(compounding) 2) You can be a stock market genius.
(Special situation) 3) The Little book that builds wealth.
(Moats) 4) Margin of Safety.
(Valuation) 5) Black Swan.
(High Improbable Events)
6) Zebra in the lion country.
(Smallcap investing) 7) The investment checklist.
(Imp of checklist) 8) Value Migration.
(Mega Shifts in business landscape) 9) The Outsiders.
(Capital Allocation) 10) Megatrends.
(Trends of new world) 11) Poor Charlie's Almanack.
(Mental Models)
Books on Indian Investing:
1) Masterclass with Super Investors.
(Collection of India's best stock market investors) 2) Bulls Bears & other Beasts.
(Brief history of Indian stock market) 3) India's Money Monarchs.
(Collection of India's best stock market veterans)
Reading Material from Global Investors:
1) BRK Annual Meetings Transcripts & Letters to shareholders. 2) Prem Watsa's Newsletters. 3) Howard Marks Memos. 4) LiLu Himalaya Capital. 5) Jeff Bezos Amazon. 6) Nomad Investment & Terry Smith's Newsletters. (Recently started reading)
What is your reason for not investing in stock market.
1982 - Worst recession in 40 years, debt crisis.
1983 - Market hits record - "Market too high".
1984 - Record U.S. Federal deficits.
1985 - Economic growth slows.
1986 - Dow nears 2000 - "Market too high"
1987 - The Crash -Black Monday.
1988 - Fear of Recession.
1989 - Junk Bond collapse.
1990 - Gulf War, worst market decline in 16 years.
1991 - Recession - "Market too high"
1992 - Elections, market flat.
1993 - Businesses continue restructuring.
1994 - Interest rates are going up
1995 - The market is too high.
1996 - Fear of Inflation.
1997 - Irrational Exuberance.
1998 - Asia Crisis.
1999 - Y2K.
2000 - Technology Correction.
2001 - Recession, WTC Attack.
2002 - Corporate Accounting Scandals.
2003 - Iraq War.
2004 - US has massive trade & budget deficits.
2) If you can't find any companies that you think are attractive, put your money in the bank until you discover some.
3) All you need for a lifetime of successful investing is a few big winners, and the pluses from those will overwhelm the minuses from the stocks that don’t work out.
7 takeaways from 7 of the best books on stock market ever written.
~ One up on wallstreet.
~ Common stocks uncommon profits.
~ Poor charlie's almanack.
~ The intelligent investor.
~ Security analysis.
~ The most important thing.
~ The snowball.
One up on wall street by Peter Lynch.
1) Know what you own, and know why you own it.
2) Selling your winners and holding your losers is like cutting the flowers and watering the weeds.
3) Owning stocks is like having children - don't get involved with more than you handle.
4) In dieting and in stocks, it is the gut and not the head that determines the results.
5) Remember, things are never clear until it's too late.
6) Big companies have small moves, small companies have big moves.
7) When you sell in desperation, you always sell cheap.