coming round to the obvious conclusion that to achieve good investment outcomes, there are 2 parts

to make a good meal, it's good ingredients and a skilled chef

too many people focus on sourcing A5 wagami beef, but dont realize that their own skill caps out at instant cup ramen
i think my biggest ascension as an investor is accepting that volatility is essential for returns (as long as the asset is positively skewed) and submitting myself to the ebb and flow of the markets, rather than trying to achieve low/no drawdowns and a 45 degree equity curve
im not saying that market timing is futile, in fact, it works very well in crypto

rather im saying that generally, even beyond the crypto asset class, fearing any sort of drawdowns is a mental drag on returns

ppl are just not comfortable with variance and overpay for stability
not to scale (since +ve and -ve should NOT be equal, but rather positively skewed), but its what im roughly visualizing

idk if its more helpful or more confusing but whatever lmeow

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Mar 1
if i start a public fund the reason is 100% to give myself or related entities exit liquidity as i sell my steaming sacks of shit to the new fund to buy and baghold while i also grift off management fees

double penetration
as of now G's Retirement Fund is doing well and has no plans to shut down or to launch a new fund (yet)
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Feb 28
recently been deployed for a few overseas missions, so here's what i do:

i just charge everything to a miles card
i have a wise debit card too

pre departure, swap cash <1% fees at #1 NK money changer 🇰🇵
if more cash is needed at destination (usually not), i withdraw from ATMs
not sure how it's like outside glorious great nation, but if you only fly business or better, miles is the best type of "rebate" to earn back

i would guess that if you dont fly often, or if you would NOT pay cash for a business ticket, it is not worth it to play the miles game
another idea is to have a multiple currency bank account and use IBKR to swap FX cheaply, then draw down the currency with your debit card

big assumption that your bank has such accounts + can hold niche currencies

it is not as clean of a universal solution compared to wise imo
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Feb 24
it is a great point tbh

from a r/r perspective, it is better to own bonds than stonks imo, especially if you want to buy cash flow

but if you want higher total returns, gotta trust in the equity risk premium

coinbase bond off the lows: +25%
coinbase stonk off the lows: +97%
i would argue that almost nobody needs to buy cash flow unless they are nearing retirement, or have certain recurring obligations that give them a lot of mental stress if they are unmatched (also solved by simply having a larger cash buffer)
big big disbeliever of passive income, especially when you are in the revanchist dynastic epochal generational wealth accumulation phase of your life

it's a hedge / stabilizer, but there's nothing wrong with that, esp if it help you play the game better

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Feb 24
interesting stats

i think survival rates rapidly drops after the top 100

the moonshot strategy skews towards small players where they wont be throttled by taking up a position in microcaps

i dont think its a good strategy for most people
i do not blv in the concept of moon bags

defined as holding a small position just in case it moons really hard

i think for the sake of a clean mental workspace, you should 100% eliminate expired positions

the use of small positions should be for testing for sizing up later imo
i think people MASSIVELY underestimate the importance of the mental aspect when it comes to investing

there might be an objectively better way to do things, but that doesnt really matter at all

an okay plan that you can actually execute is better than a great plan that you cant
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Feb 22
my current thonks as well

it sounds crazy but i have friends with residential RE that are just breaking even from renting them out, probably negative post maint + taxes, on a cash flow basis

depending when they bought, yea theres cap gains, but theres also friction for disposal
if you can rationalize that all you need to do is spot long and not get liquidated for at least another 2-5x in the majors

it then becomes hard to rationalize real estate as an investment

as a lifestyle purchase for non-financial returns? sure

for pure returns? not possible
im sure ppl will disagree with me cos everyone loves the idea of buying additional houses and renting them out for passive in cum

to be clear, because of leverage, i think its a good choice for ppl with spare bandwidth to 2nd job it

it becomes less suitable the richer you get
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Feb 22
i think a great test of ability to break down pre programmed societal psyops and reconstruct a thesis on your own is whether you honestly truly blv that "rentoids are lesser humans" or if you are able to see that renting can be (not always is) a superior solution in circumstances
i feel that there's an information fidelity transmission AND receiving problem when passing along wisdom across generations

imagine being able to only pass along information constrained by 280 character tweets

you cant go higher or else the format is incompatible to be received
if we were forced to be reductionists and "information minimalists" because "brane smol, simpler is betterer"

then yes, in a simplified binary world, i would agree that buying is better than renting

but we dont have to view everything that way, we can be more complex than that
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