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Scatter shot estimates of fair value

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on July 3, 2022July 5, 2022
  • Part 7: Building and Managing a Portfolio

A group with a high anchor were prepared to pay three times as much for the same wine as a group with a low anchor

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Cut your losses is confused advice

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on June 26, 2022June 26, 2022
  • Part 2: Human Foibles and Investment Decision Making

Your baggage is what you already own, and it gets in the way of excellence.

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Risk when markets are down

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on June 19, 2022June 26, 2022
  • Part 1: The Field of Play

Here were financial people who could seriously consider that stocks are less safe because they have declined in price than they were after they had advanced in price

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Superior investment performance – what it takes – part 2

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on April 17, 2022April 17, 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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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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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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It doesn’t matter what high profile investors are buying or selling

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on November 29, 2021November 29, 2021
  • Part 2: Human Foibles and Investment Decision Making

“If you’ve been in the [poker] game 30 minutes and you don’t know who the patsy is, you’re the patsy.”

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The stock market as a complex adaptive system

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on November 21, 2021November 21, 2021
  • Part 1: The Field of Play

And she says, “I can see you don’t understand arithmetic.” He says, “I can see you don’t understand sheep.” 

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Most investors suffer from home bias

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on November 14, 2021November 14, 2021
  • Part 2: Human Foibles and Investment Decision Making

If you search worldwide, you will find more bargains and better bargains than by studying only one nation. Also, you gain the safety of diversification

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Fear and investing

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on October 24, 2021October 25, 2021
  • Part 2: Human Foibles and Investment Decision Making

The house of fear has many windows

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