"The Millennial Consumer Index" - My picks for a DJIA style 30 stock Index with Co.'s that best serve that demographic.

Fellow Millennials, What would be some of your picks?😀
@richard_chu97 @saxena_puru @FromValue @TMFJMo @dhaval_kotecha @adventuresinfi @reshoftc @BrianFeroldi

On Seeking Alpha, "Integrator" (not sure about Twitter presence) is one of my favorite authors along with
@FromValue
@andrescardenal
@EconomyApp
Bert Hochfeld
👏👏

Few of my fav articles of his.

1⃣ The 5 Elements That Make For An Outstanding

2⃣ On Lessons from Buffett.

-Seek Economic Moats in any investment
-Having an awareness of your circle of competence
-Investing for the ultra long term
-Take advantage of a bargain hiding in plain sight
-Preservation of Capital, Above

3⃣ 5 Common Mistakes In Evaluating High-Growth Companies

-It has already gone up so much.
-Fearing short interest
-Fearing future Competition
-Fearing stock dilution due to secondary offerings
-Fearing current

4⃣ Ways Investors Cheat Themselves Out Of Long-Term Wealth Creators

-This business doesn't make any money!
-Thinking that you're too late
-Stock volatility
-High Valuation
-About Voting rights
-Aversion to 'averaging

5⃣ The 5 Important Rules For Surviving A Major Economic Downturn

-Strong cash reserves
-Low debt levels
-Good cash flow generation
-An absence of secular headwinds
-Transparent and easily understood

Excellent compilation of Forbes articles on Warren Buffet from 1969 to 2000s. h/t @valuewalk 👏

@dmuthuk @Gautam__Baid

https://t.co/V7uTYjwSrn

Reading articles from the actual period (instead of books written after he was already widely famous) provides more interesting details on how his investing process evolved over the decades..

->Pure Balancesheet & Valuation based investing(50s/60s)

-> Purchases based on Intangibles/Brands & Moats (70s)

-> Convertible Stocks (80s)

-> Acquiring overall Companies (90s onwards)....

Few interesting quotes from the document.

“Investment is most intelligent when it is most business-like”—in other words, not swayed by emotions, hopes, fads.

“I think of it in terms of buying a whole company just as if I were buying the store down the street. If I were buying the store, I’d want to know all about it."

Morningstar's "Investing Classroom" is a phenomenal (free) resource for DIY investors.👏

Covers a lot of topics from Investing basics, Financial Statement/Ratio Analysis, Behavioral Finance, lessons from great investors...

CC: @dmuthuk @Gautam__Baid

Content from the 5 course levels 👇

Note : Not sure if you need to register as a free user to access all the content. Also not sure if the content is accessible in all the countries.

✅Article at the end "20 Stock Investing Tips". Below are my fav ones.

1. Keep It Simple
2. Have the Proper Expectations.
3. Be Prepared to Hold for a Long Time.
4. Tune Out the Noise.
5. Behave Like an

7. Watch Where You Anchor.
8. Remember that Economics Usually Trumps Management Competence.
9. Be Careful of bad Management Teams.
13. Don't Be Stubborn.
17. Look for Quality.
18. Don't Buy Without Value.
20. Think Independently.

✅Section about lessons from Peter Lynch (similar sections about Buffett, Fisher, Graham & others).
✔️Stick to What You Know
✔️Do Your Research and Set Reasonable Expectations
✔️Know the Fundamentals
✔️Ignoring Mr.

Some pretty good Book summaries in here. h/t @mtmdev_ 👏

My fav ones from the list
✔️Poor Charlie's Almanack
✔️Zero to One
✔️The Millionaire Next Door
✔️Surely You're Joking, Mr.

1⃣ Poor Charlie's Almanack (on Charlie Munger).

Having the actual book and referencing it often is the best option, but checking out these tidbits doesn't

2⃣ Zero to One by Peter Thiel.

Great review of an excellent book that's very useful for anyone interested in

3⃣ The Millionaire Next Door by Thomas J. Stanley and William D. Danko.

This is one of the best personal finance books for a good

4⃣ Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard

While watching the GameStop stuff has been mildly hilarious (I mean who doesn't like watching the financial elite squirm?) it's pretty clear that a whole bunch of folk have convinced themselves this is ACTUALLY some kind of revolutionary activity. It isn't. 1/

Sure, it's highlighted yet another way in which the bastards profiteer but that's about it, stick it on the pile with the fifty other pro tips to keep the poor, well poor... It's todays banter and tho a few folks might have egg on their faces, literally nothing will happen. 2/

GameStop's three largest shareholders have earned £1.5bn+ during this. They sit at the top of some 200 institutions which are rolling. Meanwhile the ersatz rebels are now watching the bubble, realising there is profit to be made and having a wibble. 3/

No doubt some TRULY believe they are taking part in some kind of revolution but frankly it's utterly absurd and the vast majority are in it for the lulz and to cash in quick.

I'm sorry to tell you this, but you don't own GameStop.

4/

The reality is, the scale of the economic disparity and corruption is simply vast. Billionaires loosing a few millions means nothing. They buy one less yacht and you continue to live meal to meal.

The "Free Market" changes a few systems and the abuse continues. 5/

30 books I wish I read before Investing my hard-earned money:

1. You can be a Stock Market Genius by Joel Greenblatt
2. Common Stocks, Uncommon Profits by Phil Fisher
3. Margin of Safety by Seth Klarman
4. The Crowd by Gustave Le Bon
5. Winning the Loser's Game by Charles Ellis

6. The Zurich Axioms by Max Gunther
7. The Most Important Thing by Howard Marks
8. Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
9. The Intelligent Investor by B. Graham
10. A Zebra in Lion country by Ralph Wanger and Everett Mattlin
11. Learn to Earn by Peter Lynch

12.Poor Charlie's Almanack - The wit and wisdom of Charles T Munger
13.Speculative Contagion by Frank Martin
14. The Long and the Short of it by John Kay
15. More than you know by Michael Maubossin
16. Influence - The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert Cialdini

17. The Psychology of Judgment and Decision making by Scott Plous
18. The Real Warren Buffett by James O'Loughlin
19. Devil take the Hindmost by Edward Chancellor
20. Risk Intelligence by Dylan Evans
21. The Emotionally Intelligent Investor by Ravee Mehta

22.Accounting for Value by Stephen Penman
23. Common Stocks and Common Sense by Edgar Wachenheim III
24. Big Money Thinks Small by Joel Tillinghast
25. Memos from the Chairman by Alan C Greenberg

"90% of the traders lose money, But do they lose it all the time?"

Most of them do make money, its just that they give it all back.

Lets analyze why and how a trader makes and loses money
[Thread]:

Below is the equity curve which is most traders dream.

This is equity curve of an average trader:

Most traders do make money, but they give it back to the markets .

Because of trading errors.

What are trading errors?

Trading errors are those errors which happen because of wrong Position sizing, Leverage , etc.

I am not making this up, check your P&L, 90 % of your losses would have come from less then 10% trades.

Most of these happen because of No knowledge, No plan, bad position sizing .

Now, we know what's the problem, lets talk about the solution.

1. Learn the Basics first-

If you don’t get the basics clear then how can you make money?

Learn How to use Support and resistances
Learn How to use trend lines
Learn about trend, it will solve 90% of your problem

“In search of the holy grail”

A thread-

Holy grail- A strategy Which can make money all the time.

After going through two phases of a traders journey, the initial success phase, and Only why do i get loss phase, Traders enter the third phase -

THE SEARCH FOR THE HOLY GRAIL PHASE.

This phase has no limits, It can end in 1 month and it may not end till lifetime.

What exactly is this phase?

When a trader covers all the basics, they know how to lower their losses, they know the power of risk management.

And few of them may even develop their edges and systems over time.

But after some time, they feel that they are doing something wrong and there is more to trading than what they know.

THEN COMES THE HOLY GRAIL PART-

Few of them start to Read more books about trading,finding articles about “How to win 100% of the time” and listening to Youtube videos of few big traders who make big in trading.