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Mr. 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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Drawdowns, inefficient markets and a portfolio managed by God

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on July 9, 2025July 9, 2025
  • Part 1: The Field of Play

The concept of this research is to capture results associated with a long-term investor (we assume a 5-year holding period) that has incredible stock-picking skill

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The price of risk in equity markets

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on March 2, 2025March 7, 2025
  • Part 2: Human Foibles and Investment Decision Making

Mr. Market demands a very high expected return before he will invest in stocks. Whereas Mr. Bond suffers money illusion.

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What to make of recent market run up?

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on December 17, 2023December 17, 2023
  • Part 1: The Field of Play

Rising prices are a narcotic that affect the reasoning power up and down the line

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The Optimism Bias paradox

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on December 3, 2023December 3, 2023
  • Part 2: Human Foibles and Investment Decision Making

We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful

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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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My thoughts on second edition of The Four Pillars of Investing by William Bernstein

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on July 30, 2023July 30, 2023
  • Part 4: Principles of Operation

We think the very term ‘value investing’ is redundant. What is ‘investing’ if it is not the act of seeking value at least sufficient to justify the amount paid?

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