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June 8, 2020

Mocker Monday. June 8

Advanced manufacturing One of the major themes in the westernised countries is likely to be the return of manufacturing. Outside of Tesla, we’re not entirely sure where to position for this, but we’re currently trying to understand the industry. The role of 3D printing (additive manufacturing) in small batch, craft manufacturing, has the power to make fundamental changes in a...

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June 4, 2020

Quiet Contrarian. Ep 3: How have I done? Part 2: The USA.

Firstly, in the interests of full disclosure. This is my second attempt at making a US portfolio. My initial attempt was horrendous. I won’t go into detail, but it was a travesty. In the end I lost a big chunk of money, and totally shut down my US account. It was between Jan 2014 to Feb 2017. In the end...

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June 2, 2020

The Amateur Investor Ep.7: Wild Times

Since the last issue, things have taken an admittedly insane turn. We’ve seen a number of high profile protests occur in response to systemic racism and police brutality in the United States, with many states declaring curfews and martial law. I have my own thoughts on the whole matter, but being that everyone with a pulse is voicing their opinion,...

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June 1, 2020

Mocker Monday. June 1

V? Or U? (Or maybe W, L, or K!?) The theme of the week was definitely the post-Corona economic recovery. From the tone of the articles, most of the Mockers are quite bearish on the recovery, with recent market strength being chalked up to some wishful thinking. We’re not sure what the market is showing us marries with the underlying...

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May 27, 2020

Lesson Learned: Losing hurts

A person who has not made peace with his losses is likely to accept gambles that would be unacceptable to him otherwise. Daniel Kahneman Losing hurts. It really hurts. It hurts about twice as much as gaining the same thing. One of the ways this can manifest in investing is that we hold failures for far longer than we hold...

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May 26, 2020

The Amateur Investor Ep. 6: A look behind the curtain

In all honesty, with the ongoing pandemic, the draw-down had come faster than I’d expected. The difference was almost night and day as malls that were once filled with people turned instantly into ghost towns. On the investment front, my Portfolio was doing what Bill described as “half a W”. I wish I could give you a Ritholtz-style review of...

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May 25, 2020

Mocker Monday. 25 May.

Long term debt cycle Nucleus investments has posted a great summary of the Australian position within the long term debt cycle (described by Ray Dalio and shared by Mockingbird on May 12), and what to look for in terms of good and bad policy responses in this space. Well worth your time to watch the whole thing. Debt Deleveraging: is...

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May 21, 2020

Quiet Contrarian. Ep 2: How have I done? Part 1: The ASX.

One of the reasons I started this blog was to drive me to get better at tracking my stock picks. Over the years, I’d kind of tracked them with various software, or Commsec, or self made spreadsheets. They always seemed to have some sort of issue (e.g. only gave total return, not annualised, only tracked open positions, didn’t allow comparison...

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