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beating the market

Market (In)Efficiency and beating the market

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on January 25, 2026January 27, 2026
  • Part 7: Building and Managing a Portfolio

Behavioral inefficiencies are likely the most enduring because human nature has not changed much over time and is unlikely to change much in the future.

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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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My investment performance and how I invest my money

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on January 7, 2024February 7, 2024
  • Part 7: Building and Managing a Portfolio

It is value investing pure and simple with a concentrated portfolio, but the companies must have really good growth prospects.

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Managing yourself

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on October 8, 2023October 8, 2023
  • Part 2: Human Foibles and Investment Decision Making

Each post has a list of what Daniel Kahneman, a Nobel Prize winning psychologist, calls risk policies and I call gap-to-edge rules.

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The market can be beaten

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on July 23, 2023February 4, 2024
  • Part 1: The Field of Play

He will risk half his fortune in the stock market with less reflection than he devoted to the selection of a medium-price automobile

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Fifty years – Beaten the market

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on January 8, 2023January 23, 2023
  • Part 7: Building and Managing a Portfolio

It’s amazing that 2% makes such a big difference

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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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What we can learn from my annual investment performance

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on January 9, 2022January 10, 2022
  • Part 7: Building and Managing a Portfolio

Beating the market can be dangerous psychologically

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Do investors need to identify and invest in future FAAMGN stocks?

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on February 28, 2021December 19, 2021
  • Part 4: Principles of Operation

Today’s FAAMGNs, that is today’s ‘vital few’, will not be the ‘vital few’ 20 years from now

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Thoughts on beating the market

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on January 5, 2020November 22, 2020
  • Part 1: The Field of Play

No investment decision should ever be motivated by trying to beat the market. The moment this impulse creeps in, the investor is liable to risk seeking behavior.

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