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Mark Minervini
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At some point the market makes everyone feel like a genius. That's the seduction and the trap! You eventually get rewarded for breaking a rule, and then you’ll break more rules; then the blowup! In the end, nothing more to show but a thrill ride. There's no longevity in luck.

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When to step on the gas like a pig and when to do nothing like a chicken is really what separates the greats from everyone else. You have to know your strengths, exploit them and respect your weaknesses while minimizing them.

Mark Minervini
@markminervini

Stay in your own lane and perfect what you know. Realize that every strategy has strengths and weaknesses; there is no perfect strategy. But once you know all the pros and cons you can perfectly execute your strategy... and that's the goal.

I don't know shit about 99% of the stock trading strategies out there... but I know everything about my strategy. And that's all I need to know. I realized long ago, you can't be good at everything. I'm an expert because I chose to specialize. pic.twitter.com/uG7gWwhsjs
— Mark Minervini (@markminervini) March 28, 2021

Mark Minervini
@markminervini

My strategy may not be the best there is, but I know every little thing about it.. and that's more important.. and that's why I can reap great rewards from it. You don't find a great strategy that delivers great results, you develop as the operator of a strategy.

Mark Minervini
@markminervini

You will never get huge returns with any real consistency holding a diversified portfolio of stocks through thick and thin. Big performance with little drawdown requires:
1. Timing
2. Turnover
3. Aggressive position sizing when trades are working, light or cash when they're not.

Mark Minervini
@markminervini

When you make a real commitment, you know that a successful outcome will only materialize as a result of executing the proper steps. You commit to a process—and you embrace the journey. To become a great trader you MUST get your attention off the money and on process.

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Mark Minervini
@markminervini

None of the attributes like discipline, persistence, consistency or hard work are going to do you any good if you are all over the place and haven't first defined your style and committed to mastering it at the expense of being a mediocre jack-of-all trades. #avoidstyledrift.

The word is sacrifice. You are not going to be the best at day trading, swing, value and growth investing. It will be amazing if you can master just one. And you only need one. So pick one and sacrifice the rest! There is no other way unless you want to suck at a bunch of things. https://t.co/QVI68eaNHQ
— Mark Minervini (@markminervini) April 14, 2021

Mark Minervini
@markminervini

Be careful not to get lured into stocks too soon just because the indexes are bouncing. If you recall, for months the Dow made new highs while virtually every breakout failed in just 1-3 days. Stock traders that took comfort in the Dow as a sign of market health got it wrong.

Mark Minervini
@markminervini

The grand majority of your problems trading will stem from breaking the following rules...

Mark Minervini
@markminervini

Discipline is the hallmark of greatness. Be patient. Wait for your pitch. Learn how to exercise what I call Sit Out Power. If there is nothing that meets your criteria... do nothing!

Mark Minervini
@markminervini

Regardless of strategy, THIS IS the Holy Grail!

Mark Minervini Explains the Holy Grail in Trading https://t.co/TAnmMPiSHe via @YouTube

For three years I have wanted to write an article on moral panics. I have collected anecdotes and similarities between today\u2019s moral panic and those of the past - particularly the Satanic Panic of the 80s.

This is my finished product: https://t.co/otcM1uuUDk
— Ashe Schow (@AsheSchow) September 29, 2018

The 3 big things that made the 1980's/early 1990's surreal for me.

1) Satanic Panic - satanism in the day cares ahhhh!

2) "Repressed memory" syndrome

3) Facilitated Communication [FC]

All 3 led to massive abuse.

"Therapists" -and I use the term to describe these quacks loosely - would hypnotize people & convince they they were 'reliving' past memories of Mom & Dad killing babies in Satanic rituals in the basement while they were growing up.

Other 'therapists' would badger kids until they invented stories about watching alligators eat babies dropped into a lake from a hot air balloon. Kids would deny anything happened for hours until the therapist 'broke through' and 'found' the 'truth'.

FC was a movement that started with the claim severely handicapped individuals were able to 'type' legible sentences & communicate if a 'helper' guided their hands over a keyboard.

Melissa (she/her)
@LiteraryMouse

In regards to the #CapitolCoup, I’m in a unique position. I monitored forums ahead of time and then was present for the coup itself.

These are my observations based on what I saw and the evidence that’s been collected so far. I reserve the right to adjust my analysis as needed.

Let’s talk about the organization of the coup first. Seeing some people insist that the coup must have been highly planned and coordinated.

Yes and no. This was a #StochasticCoup. We’ll see little evidence of direct communication between Trump and the insurrectionists.

Within the insurrectionists, there was not one group that executed the storming of the Capitol.

Rather, there were a number of smaller groups working independently towards the same goal. I expect you’ll see little evidence that these various groups communicated with each other.

What you will see is detailed planning and coordination within these small groups.

Then there were the joyriders, those Trump supporters who weren’t directly involved in any plotting but who were more than happy to go along for the ride once the coup was in motion.

After four years, the insurrectionists were carefully attuned to Trump’s messaging.

Every tweet and statement of his was treated as marching orders and carefully dissected for meaning.

It’s why shutting down Trump’s Twitter account was so important.

Noah Smith
@Noahpinion

1/OK, data mystery time.

This New York Times feature shows China with a Gini Index of less than 30, which would make it more equal than Canada, France, or the Netherlands. https://t.co/g3Sv6DZTDE

That's weird. Income inequality in China is legendary.

Let's check this number.

2/The New York Times cites the World Bank's recent report, "Fair Progress? Economic Mobility across Generations Around the World".

The report is available here:

3/The World Bank report has a graph in which it appears to show the same value for China's Gini - under 0.3.

The graph cites the World Development Indicators as its source for the income inequality data.

4/The World Development Indicators are available at the World Bank's website.

Here's the Gini index: https://t.co/MvylQzpX6A

It looks as if the latest estimate for China's Gini is 42.2.

That estimate is from 2012.

5/A Gini of 42.2 would put China in the same neighborhood as the U.S., whose Gini was estimated at 41 in 2013.

I can't find the <30 number anywhere. The only other estimate in the tables for China is from 2008, when it was estimated at 42.8.

$Gal Gur \U0001f1ee\U0001f1f1$

Gal Gur 🇮🇱...
@GalGur_

1/
Hello, my name is Gal,
I am an Israeli citizen, and I want to convey this urgent message to the world: Contrary to what you are told, Israel has not "returned to normal" in any way >>

2/ Moreover, despite the desire to create a setting as if there was a full and normal routine here - the Israeli Ministry of Health JUST RECOMMENDED TODAY TO EXTENT THE DECLARATION OF A “STATE OF EMERGENCY” in Israel >>

3/ to which is the foundation for coercion, violation of basic rights, severe discrimination under a "green mark (pass)", prolonged closure (Of about 5 months overall) and a lot of undemocratic and not “routine" restrictions. >

4/ If the situation in Israel had "returned to routine thanks to the astounding success of vaccines" then the "state of emergency" would not have continued.

5/ In fact, since the beginning of the "vaccination project" there has been only more intimidation and in many ways - even though the closure has been lifted, much more coercion.

Erik Torenberg
@eriktorenberg

1/“What would need to be true for you to….X”

Why is this the most powerful question you can ask when attempting to reach an agreement with another human being or organization?

A thread, co-written by @deanmbrody:

Next level tactic when closing a sale, candidate, or investment:

Ask: \u201cWhat needs to be true for you to be all in?\u201d

You'll usually get an explicit answer that you might not get otherwise. It also holds them accountable once the thing they need becomes true.
— Erik Torenberg (@eriktorenberg) February 27, 2018

2/ First, “X” could be lots of things. Examples: What would need to be true for you to

- “Feel it's in our best interest for me to be CMO"
- “Feel that we’re in a good place as a company”
- “Feel that we’re on the same page”
- “Feel that we both got what we wanted from this deal

3/ Normally, we aren’t that direct. Example from startup/VC land:

Founders leave VC meetings thinking that every VC will invest, but they rarely do.

Worse over, the founders don’t know what they need to do in order to be fundable.

4/ So why should you ask the magic Q?

To get clarity.

You want to know where you stand, and what it takes to get what you want in a way that also gets them what they want.

It also holds them (mentally) accountable once the thing they need becomes true.

5/ Staying in the context of soliciting investors, the question is “what would need to be true for you to want to invest (or partner with us on this journey, etc)?”

Multiple responses to this question are likely to deliver a positive result.

At some point the market makes everyone feel like a genius. That's the seduction and the trap! You eventually get rewarded for breaking a rule, and then you’ll break more rules; then the blowup! In the end, nothing more to show but a thrill ride. There's no longevity in luck.

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