spartansaver

Outside of Banks and Insurance, is there ever a useful time to look at the Statement of Comprehensive Income? I almost always skip it, and just wondering if anyone has found any use to it.

Amazon has done it several times, but that's a very different animal. Apple in 2021. Google in 2021.

Has there ever been a manufacturing company in history (or any company) that added $60B of revenues in a single year? I'm just curious because that is wild, don't really care about the stock.

I don't have any skin in this game but man am I cheering for Fairfax to put on a short squeeze. Good luck! Diamond Hands!

I read it, very fun read. I haven't read the other bitcoin book out there from what I understand makes FTX looks very bad. The Lewis portrayal makes it looks like the dumbest fraud in history. Enormous value and incentives aligned to FTX and not much value to Alameda and they let Alameda blow up FTX. It just seemed dumb and unnecessary.

Gotta pull out Twain here "History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes”. I get it, it's got a lot of stuff going for it, presenting both sides of the coin. Also for you quote snobs, its not certain Twain actually said this.

I can see the pros and cons of bitcoin. Cons are it could be the next Tulipomania. Pros are its supply is fixed, decentralized, governments destroy their currencies, and if this continues to survive it could be a currency that is used in everyday transactions worldwide. I don't really lean either way, but I do think that even if it is a giant ponzi scheme its somewhat interesting that a lot of people are about to get invited to the ponzi party. Supply is essentially fixed, and demand might go up a bunch as it becomes much less of a hassle to throw a few sheckles at BTC. I don't directly own any but am participating through a position in FRMO.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/12/27/analysis-in-the-red-sea-the-us-has-no-good-options-against-the-houthis

It's always nice to know why something is falling. Do any of you have a good framework for knowing when tax loss harvesting is driving down a share price (other than its near year end and the stock is down on the year)?

https://dcs.megaphone.fm/CLS7328362599.mp3?key=b0b0433f893f6ae8ab6d13100e55a786&request_event_id=e1869b0d-8ab2-4455-82e8-6f7c17973372&source=3 Interview from last year just released. Funny stuff about transdigm. He’s in his prime here

One of my worst areas of investing has to be building a position. I mainly deal in the micro space and can move prices with small orders. Does anyone have any recommendations of things to read to help in this area? Is it worth just finding a full service broker and letting them deal with it?

I'd say the opposite, lean into big ideas. You'll learn what works and what doesn't. I learned very early on about leverage and operational issues because I had a big position (at the time) in a company I followed someone else into. If I'd done 30 different small ideas I don't think lessons would've been taken. You can stand to learn at this point without mistakes costing you a lot. Books are good but experience is best.

O’reilly, autozone, and advance auto?

We had success with a program "Taking Cara Babies." Our now 10 month old has been sleeping 7-6:30 since 5 months or so. The biggest thing was letting her cry a little bit those first few times to let them put themselves to sleep. I think the program maxes the crying to 7 minutes then you sooth and start over. I felt it was some of the best money we've spent. Feels like the secret is to get out of the way and the baby will figure it out.

Both businesses grow in-line with GDP - assume Invested Capital is $100. Business A averages a 10% ROIC and earns that every year without fail. Business B averages a 10% ROIC but earns -10% some years and +30% other years. What are these two earnings streams worth?

I've seen this stated before but does it have to be true? Could the Yuan just continue to appreciate relative to other currencies? I can split a Yuan up into smaller pieces and still transact in Yuan. Have any of the previous reserve currencies been countries that were net exporters?

According to NASA there are ~300M potentially habitable planets in the milky way. That's a lot of chances for smart life to pop up. I've always been doubtful that aliens have crashed on earth. They have good enough technology to travel from a planet light years away but they crash? Maybe we've spotted UFO's, I'm less certain around that. If physics holds up as we understand it today (can't travel faster than speed of light), we likely won't ever meet any other intelligent life.

Have you given the ATG Program a try? He's a bit promotional (knees over toes guy), but I've been working through his program and I've never been as explosive. The gist of the program is strengthening and lengthening (stretching) joint areas. I've lifted very heavy in the past but it never felt functional to me. This feels like a much more athletically minded program with a focus on improving durability. I've got no relationship other than paying a monthly fee. I'd be curious if anyone else on this forum has any familiarity with the program.

Lol this just feels like a troll wanting to pick a fight.

It’s not until next weekend.

I think it's important to keep an open mind. I remember when Muscleman first described the situation in Wuhan. Those initial posts allowed me to formulate a pretty unique view that helped make 2020 one of my best investment years. I would say that while I viewed the posts to some degree with skepticism (it sounded like the world could end) they were actually quite accurate and no mainstream media outlet was ready to say just how bad it could get.

This is my strategy, nothing gets the mind working like real dollars at risk.

Cool find. I'd be curious to see this on a dollar basis. I would guess holding longer naturally makes the ones he's held longest the highest dollar basis. I also think it shows a strategy of buying and killing. As in start to buy something and then kill it so it leaves the portfolio quickly.

I’m not a tech person and usually can’t use most of that stuff, but I’ve been playing around with gpt4 since Friday. It’s one of the most amazing things I’ve ever seen. It just hits me over the head. I’m usually skeptical of tech stuff being revolutionary, but if I had to wager it seems like the odds are good. The speed is also wild. We are on gpt4, what does gpt10 look like?

https://www.amazon.com/Flameout-Rise-Fall-Burger-Chef/dp/1456418637 It's a decent read about a failed burger chain.