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Part 4: Principles of Operation

Strategic thinking, plans and a punch in the mouth

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on June 17, 2025June 17, 2025
  • Part 4: Principles of Operation

And here’s the difference between the bursting of true stock market bubbles and other stock market routs. When the Dot Com bubble burst it took many many, years for the fallen to recover.

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Owning an equal part of every business in town

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on March 16, 2025March 16, 2025
  • Part 4: Principles of Operation

Buffett is right for an actively managed portfolio and Greenblatt is right for a passive portfolio

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Howard Marks bad advice or misunderstood

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on March 9, 2025March 9, 2025
  • Part 4: Principles of Operation

Now we are looking for good companies, not just cheap companies.

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Value investing in the age of the Magnificent Seven, networks, intangibles, AI and all that

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on October 13, 2024October 21, 2024
  • Part 4: Principles of Operation

A high ratio of price to book value, a high price-earnings ratio, and a low dividend yield – are in no way inconsistent with a ‘value’ purchase.

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What investors can learn from professional gamblers

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on October 6, 2024October 6, 2024
  • Part 4: Principles of Operation

Now, real games are not like that at all. Real life is not like that. Real life consists of bluffing, of little tactics of deception, of asking yourself what is the other man going to think I mean to do. And that is what games are about in my theory.

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Investment strategy – the best defense is a good offense

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on September 29, 2024September 29, 2024
  • Part 4: Principles of Operation

And if a person sets out to make profits from security purchases and sales, he is embarking on a business venture of his own, which must be run in accordance with accepted business principles if it is to have a chance of success.

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Rise of passive investing good or bad for active investors?

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on August 25, 2024August 25, 2024
  • Part 4: Principles of Operation

The stock market and individual stocks still seem capable of swinging from euphoria to fear, from fear to euphoria, from bull to bear and from bear to bull, as they have over stock market history.

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The investment styles of three great investors: Keynes, Templeton and Buffett

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on July 7, 2024July 7, 2024
  • Part 4: Principles of Operation

A careful selection of a few investments (or a few types of investment) having regard to their cheapness in relation to their probable actual and potential intrinsic value over a period of years ahead and in relation to alternative investments at the time.

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Buying at average prices vs buying at very attractive prices

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on April 14, 2024April 14, 2024
  • Part 4: Principles of Operation

Distill the secrets of sound investment into three words

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The ABCs through XYZ of common stock investing

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on February 4, 2024February 4, 2024
  • Part 4: Principles of Operation

There are three ways to go at it with today’s post

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