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🔎 Deep‑Dive Stock Analyses

Full archive → here.

• PAID: A Hidden Infrastructure Winner With +50% Upside

• MLI 0.00%↑: Mueller Industries: Why 28% Margins Won’t Last Forever

• GM 0.00%↑: Why I Took Profits and the One Risk I Couldn’t Ignore

• PAID: This Financial Stock Doubled Quietly, But It’s Still Cheap

• OPFI 0.00%↑: The Fintech Lender That’s Beating the Odds

• PAID: When a 13 % ROE Bank Trades for <0.8x Book: Why the ‘Zip-Code Discount’ Won’t Last

• PAID: Why I’m Rotating Out of IAMGOLD Into a Leaner, Faster-Growing Gold Miner

• AGX 0.00%↑: Argan Deep Dive: Why I’m Still Bullish After a 87% Run

• PAID: This AI-Driven Lending Powerhouse Is Hiding in Plain Sight

• LRN 0.00%↑: Stride Inc.: Why It’s Up 59%—And Still Has 57% Upside From Here

• PAID: A Beaten-Down Stock With a Hidden Gem Business and 4x–9x Upside

• URI 0.00%↑: United Rentals: Why I’m Taking Profits on This Equipment Rental Giant

• RCL 0.00%↑: Why I Just Locked a 90% Gain on Royal Caribbean — And Why I’m Stepping Off the Ship

• PAID: This Overlooked BPO Stock Is Quietly Becoming an AI Winner

• KINS 0.00%↑: Kingstone Companies: Hold or Fold After the +80% Surge?

• PAID: The Dirt on a Quiet Compounder Hiding in Plain Sight

• CLS 0.00%↑: Celestica: The Most Important AI Stock You’re Probably Not Aware Of

• TSM 0.00%↑: TSMC: Why This Semiconductor Giant is My Highest-Conviction Buy

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📚 Investment Philosophy

• Let’s invest like professional poker players

• Storytelling is a double-edged sword, so be careful

• Invest in What You Understand

• Why Ignoring Market Noise Pays Off

• Thinking, Fast and Slow

• Why you should aim to make a living rather than making a killing

• No Place for Emotions in Stock Investing

• What Does It Mean for a Market to Be Efficient? (And Why It Matters for Stock Investing)

• Why Most Investors Fail: The One Skill You Need to Succeed

• Connecting the Dots in Stock Investing: Sharpening Your Mosaic Thinking

• Cheat Codes for Life Monopoly

• 10 Timeless Investing Lessons from Warren Buffett (That Still Work Today)

• How My BS Detector Made Me a Better Investor — and Less Fun at Parties

• The 100-Year Fund: Building a Legacy for Future Generations

• The Art of Knowing When to Sell a Stock (And When to Sit Tight)

• How I earn $3,000-$7,000 a Month While Waiting to Buy Great Stocks Cheaper

• Push vs. Pull — Why Reacting to Market News Is a Losing Game

• Am I a Good Stock Picker? Let the Numbers Speak.

• Ideas Are Borrowed, Not Born in Isolation

• Fundamental Analysis Isn’t What You Think

• Why I Think Investing Will Be One of the Final Jobs Taken Over by AI

• Sequels Tend to Suck

• Design Your Life Around Your Nature

• Principals, Agents — and Why the Repairs at My Corner Got Done on Time

• The Walls You Put Up to Protect Yourself Can Imprison You

• All Choices Have an Opportunity Cost

• The 80/20 Rule in Investing

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🛠️ Monthly Investment Fundamentals

A technical companion newsletter on LinkedIn, “Monthly Investing Fundamentals,” covering the how of investing

• DuPont 2.0: Reverse-Engineering ROE to Expose Leverage Tricks

• Footnote Finance: How Pensions, Leases & AROs Trick Valuations

• The Ultimate Primer on Capital Allocation: A Shareholder’s Guide to Spotting Great CEOs

• Spin-offs, Split-offs & Carve-outs: Where Structural Alpha Hides

• Why Buffett Ignores EPS — And You Should Too

• The Power of Base Rates: How Bayesian Thinking Beats Gut Feel

• The Catalyst Primer: How to Turn Events Into Alpha

• Earnings Calls Decoded: Spotting the Tell‑Tale Signs of Management Spin

• Scuttlebutt 2.0: The Modern Art of Channel Checks

• Moats 101: The Ultimate Guide to Competitive Advantages in Investing

• Free‑Cash‑Flow Yield: How to Spot Real Bargains (and Dodge Value Traps) in Any Market

• Connecting the Dots: How the Best Investors See Patterns Others Miss

• 10 Timeless Investing Lessons from Warren Buffett (That Still Work Today)

• The Cash Flow Statement Primer: Your Stock’s Financial Lifeblood Revealed

• The Balance Sheet Primer: Your Stock’s Financial X-Ray and Hidden Safety Net

• How to Spot Red Flags in Stocks — An Ounce of Skepticism is Worth a Pound of Future Regret

• The Art (and Science) of Reading 10-Ks and Proxy Statements - A Primer

• The Most Important Metric You’re Probably Not Using

• How the Stock Market Really Works—Master the Rules or Get Outplayed

• The Secret to Outsmarting the Market: Leverage Your Competitive Advantage in Investing

• Why Most Investors Fail: The One Skill You Need to Succeed

• Unpopular But Profitable: Why Contrarian Investors Outsmart the Herd

• Why Your Reading List Is More Important Than Your Watchlist

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🗓️ Weeklies

Weekly recaps that separate signal from noise and explain how events move our open positions. Browse the full archive → here.

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