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Part 3: Thoughts for the Individual Investor

Self reliance at the heart of successful investing

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on August 14, 2023August 14, 2023
  • Part 3: Thoughts for the Individual Investor

If you always look to others for confirmation that you are right you will never be self-reliant.

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A special talent for converting life’s setbacks into future successes

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on June 18, 2023June 21, 2023
  • Part 3: Thoughts for the Individual Investor

The most successful sailors are those who have a particular mindset in how they deal with the setbacks.

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The best performance is produced by a person and not by a committee

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on June 11, 2023June 11, 2023
  • Part 3: Thoughts for the Individual Investor

Doing what everybody else is doing at the moment, and therefore what you have an almost irresistible urge to do, is often the wrong thing to do at all

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The bitterest way to learn investing wisdom

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on March 28, 2023March 28, 2023
  • Part 3: Thoughts for the Individual Investor

If a man is both wise and lucky, he will not make the same mistake twice. But he will make any one of the ten thousand brothers or cousins of the original.

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Superior investment performance – what it takes – part 2

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on April 17, 2022October 16, 2022
  • Part 3: Thoughts for the Individual Investor

As an individual investor I have to recognize that I am unlikely to think of something the brains of Wall Street haven’t thought of, or see things the brains of Wall Street have missed, or have insights they don’t possess.

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Superior investment performance – what it takes – part 1

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on April 10, 2022April 10, 2022
  • Part 3: Thoughts for the Individual Investor

No doubt some qualities are ‘bred in the bone’. But, it also seems some children learn how to be more confident, to have higher executive control and to be more willing to trust experimenters who offer double treats.

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Moderate risk tolerance

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on March 20, 2022March 20, 2022
  • Part 3: Thoughts for the Individual Investor

One way to be adept at avoiding failure is to avoid attempting anything you might fail at

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Loving lack of visibility

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on March 13, 2022March 15, 2022
  • Part 3: Thoughts for the Individual Investor

Things are almost never clear on Wall Street, or when they are, then it’s too late to profit from them.

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DIY investors are not the patsies at the table

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on January 30, 2022February 1, 2022
  • Part 3: Thoughts for the Individual Investor

The tech fund managers could only hold their noses and invest the money in whatever stock was available that fitted the description ‘tech stock’.

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Experience and becoming a really successful investor

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on January 16, 2022January 16, 2022
  • Part 3: Thoughts for the Individual Investor

You can continue to learn and improve your investing skills year after year.

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