Spekulatius

The Fall of the House of Usher is a very well made miniseries amalgamated from Edgar Allen Poe themes.

The Sands Gang (Rob Sands) at Constellation brands is very underrated and you rarely hear or read anything about them. They have done very well for shareholders and themselves.

The risk management part of shorting makes it unsuitable for most investors, imo.

Like negotiate with the realtor. Not too hard to pay 5% and less.

I think AAPL went into the coffee can, just like KO and AXP did decades ago. I don’t think they will sell.

This is the same than these CFRA recos and target prices They tend to trail stock prices. Here is an example- BAC. You wont make money following this advice…

I knew an accountant at my former workplace who was basically financially illiterate. That assessment was based on how bought cars or dealt with expenses. He also seemed constantly broke and had significant credit card balances. Amazing.

It's just one guy doing his job, possibly poorly. Who cares.... Morningstar isn't exactly the pinnacle of investment research, although i do sometimes like to read what they say as a primer. Comes free with a $50 brokerage account so you get what you pay for.

You are probably correct. What I do is just a quick measure to compare insurance cos quickly for the length of their tail. I think generally speaking, management should have the right answer using proper discounting.

@longlake95 Looks like an impressive track record. Put this one on my watch list. I know you posted about TFII before but now you finally got at least my attention.

You are not holding the magnificent seven, so you are doing it wrong. Small and medium caps were close to the 2022 September bottom before the recent rally.

V and MA are an entirely different business model, so it's not comparable to DFS. I think DFS has a better business model than COF with their branches, auto lending and commercial lending. I think they do a pretty good job in credit cards but not so much in the other two business which consume considerable resources. That said, I don't like DFS student loan business which they acquired in 2010. it's a diversion from DFS core credit card business and I hope they get rid of it: https://www.pymnts.com/acquisitions/2023/report-discover-financial-services-weighs-sale-of-student-loan-business/

Yes, lousy guidance. Growth went from 22% to forecasted 10-12%. That growth is not enough to sustain the valuation. Had a small position in this because I liked the company, but the valuation was high. No margin of safety in that one. Sold it when I skimmed the press release yesterday AH. That said, I will evaluate in a month after the wash sale period is over.

I have done one small add in CNHI at $11.5 but not buying more although the price seems tempting. I am going to check the Q3 report first.

We have had this discussion before but QE is not "money printing". It's just an asset exchange of a longer duration treasury for reserves (or essentially a shorter duration asset). It seems to have accomplished very little other than damage the banking system. Only deficits are money printing and we do plenty of this. Deficits are inflationary. The treasury drives the bus much more so than the Fed.

I use insurance liabilites / Premiums as a quick measure. I get $57B (2022 insurance liabilites) /22.6B (2022 net premiums) = 2.6 years roughly. It's probably not totally correct but in the correct ballpark.

The Palestine conflict stole the eyeballs. FWIW, there are probably more Russians dying each day than Palestinians right now.

Sold $PAYC yesterday AH after earnings were announced. Huge downwards guidance. Painful. Was a small position since I liked the company, but valuation was a stretch and needed growth to continue at good clip and it didn't.

Sarepta Risk and the FDA (Drugs that don’t work but get approved anyways due to pressure from orchestrated patient advocacy groups) https://open.substack.com/pub/johnhempton/p/sarepta-risk-and-the-fda?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

SFX is fraud regardless if they bet 10% or 100%. Betting it all on black is sort of logical because they would have been Ok if it had worked out regardless of fraud, the way SillyCon valley works.

The black see is a side theater. Russia tries to choke off Ukraine from sea access, so it is important in a sense that they don't succeed. On the counteroffensive, it seems like Ukraine does very little lately and Russia is burning tremendous amount of material and manpower to take the Avdiivka salient. The videos that come from there are really something to check out (most NSFW). I think at some point things on the Ukrainian attack are going to pick up again, but right now, it seems relatively quiet.

He is jealous of Israel's special operation and the fact that they are actually hitting their targets.

What is the right bet size if you bet with other peoples money per Kelly formula? I think it's 100%.

Looks like he gave it exactly 10 years and then calls it quits.

Don't do drugs and trade.