The 100th podcast of my show releases this week! That’s 100 experts sharing their macro and investment wisdom with our listeners. Thank you all for the amazing support!
To celebrate, I've collated some of the best tips for investors shared by our exceptional guests🐝👇
[1] First up, @agurevich23: Aggressive ≠ Underdisciplined
“The sky is the limit. Being aggressive does not mean being undisciplined. You can be disciplined, but you should not set your targets low in financial markets”
[2] Ari Paul: Position Sizing
“Risk is only sizing. If you think #Bitcoin is too risky, you could size it at 0.01% of your portfolio. Too risky isn’t a reason not to own an asset. If something is positive expected value, risk adjusted, & relatively low correlation, own it.”
“Know enough to have conviction… know enough to build a thesis that no one else or maybe not a lot of people have. And that will also actually carry you through the investment and have you hold it through the ups and down.”
[4] Myself 🙂: Patience is Key
“Patience is really important to do well when investing. So, don’t feel bad if you’re just making five or six percent a year. If you do that year in and year out, you’ll do really, really well”.
[5] Todd Edgar: Buckle Up
“It’s always hard, this is never going to be easy, so either quit or man up, to a certain extent. But also, just know that there’s going to be ups & downs, & have a robust process & a robust self-belief, which, frankly, is a lot easier said than done.”
“You don’t have to do it. So a pass is as good as getting into it. And so don’t ever feel that pressure of I’ve got to chase this and I’ve got to get into it now.”
“Every value #investor does a different thing and distinguishes themselves in a different way...you have to find your own style, not just your own genre, but really your own flair."
“Don’t be driven by tax. I’ve seen many personal investors, retail investors make mistakes, including myself historically, by making a decision that was driven by tax rather than by the underlying investment rationale.”
“If you find a product that you really love, don’t just buy the product, buy some of the shares of the company behind that product. Because if you love it, then probably a lot of other people are going to as well.”
“Losers, average losers and winners press winners. I’ve been very lucky. I had a mentor, Julian Robertson for a couple decades. He had an uncanny ability to double up. He would never double down....
[11b] ... If something went in against him, he would say, “We’re wrong, admit, you’re wrong. Take the loss and live to fight another day”. When he was right and things were going his way, he had an uncanny ability to double up to press the winner."
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I’ve just got to 2,000 followers on Twitter. Not 200K, not 20K but 2K. Not a great result for six years. But at least I have expertise on how to fail at building a Twitter following! Here's a thread on how to FAIL at the Twitter game:
1/7 Don’t check Twitter that often. For the first five years, I barely checked my Twitter account and more recently I only check it once a day. Low-frequency usage means less engagement which means less profile.
2/7 Avoid attacking others. ‘’Any fool can criticize, condemn, or complain” said Dale Carnegie and I tend to follow that advice. It’s much much easier to tweet a criticism than a compliment. And nobody gets bothered if you are not attacking someone, so less engagement.