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• Everything in nature goes through a cycle whether it is a living organism or weather. Like
living organism passes through different phases of birth, growth, maturity, decline and
lastly death or rebirth.
• In the same way, the stock market also follows a cycle. After a bear phase, there will be a
bullish phase but however, no one knows how much time it’s going to take. If someone
wants to enjoy the fruits when the situations are conducive, it’s important to adapt to
the harsh phase by being adaptive to the environment. The key here is patience.
• It may help you in identifying that where a stock is in its lifecycle. However, in real life, it’s
very difficult to identify the actual position in its lifecycle.
Is the life cycle of business similar to the 4 stages of the
stock market?
Bottomline
• The investors often look at the solid fundamental reason before investing in a company.
But one drawback of this approach is that by the time they have supportive evidence, it’s
already priced in and accordingly the stock has already moved by 300-400% i.e. the
market has already discounted the positive news.
• Look to buy a stock when the stock is surrounded by bad news and nobody wants to buy
it. The weak hands will try to exit their position on such news.
• On the other hand, after a good uptrend when the picture looks rosy, the smart investor
exits their position and offloads their stake to weak and news-driven investors.
50 Cognitive Biases to be Aware of so You
Can be the Very Best Version of You.
4. Every product that changed the world was once belittled by the crowd.
7. Nothing’s free, so figure out the cost of investment returns – emotional, analytical, whatever
– and be prepared to pay every cent of it.
8. Most great companies focus on the intersection of customer empathy and competitive
paranoia.
12. Solving a customer’s problem is the most lucrative and enduring, especially as access to
information proliferates.
13. The biggest risks are things that aren’t in the news, as people aren’t preparing for them
because they’re not in the news.
14. Reducing your desires has the same effect as leveraging your assets, but with no downside
risk.
15. Spreadsheets cannot model trust and honesty, so due diligence always has to have a soft,
subjective side.
Investing Rules
16. Read fewer forecasts and more history.
18. Reject existing beliefs as easily as you are persuaded by new ones.
19. No amount of intelligence can counteract the influence of extremely strong political beliefs.
22. Solutions should usually be ten times simpler than they are.
23. The cure to overconfidence is constantly reminding yourself that you’ve experienced maybe
0.00001% of the world.
25. Highly underrated: Options, systems, and getting along with people you disagree with.
26 Short Investing Rules for the Indian Stock market
• https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/personal-finance/26-
short-investing-rules-for-the-indian-stock-market-7902851.html
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