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7 Lessons From 2024

Observant1
edited December 6 in Other Investing
Helping Investors Separate the Signal from the Noise...
00:00 Intro
00:43 Topics
01:14 7 Lessons From 2024
01:18 Lesson #1: Returns Are Lumpy
05:08 Lesson #2: Price Targets Are Pointless
10:48 Lesson #3: Embrace Panic
13:13 Lesson #4: Tune Out the Noise
16:32 Lesson #5: Diversification Is Simple, But Not Easy
19:58 Lesson #6: There Is No Impossible in Markets
23:37 Lesson #7 Time over Money
27:47 $36 Trillion in National Debt: Signal or Noise?

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  • catch22catch22
    Thank you again, @Observant1.
    Everyone here should be watching these presentations; and saving them for further/future reference.
    Especially important for this #39 report, IMHO; is Lesson #2 starting at the 5 minute mark, titled 'Price Targets'. A lot of time over the years and currently is spent regarding who/what to follow and/or read regarding financial thinking. The point of Lesson #2 is that those (the large, old money centers), those that one should expect to understand markets well, have problems like other 'humans', in spite of overwhelming data and 'schooling'. Somewhere here (MFO) is a write (2010 - 2012?) about about Morgan Stanley or Goldman fully getting things wrong about interest rates directions. A serious mistake.
    One must be their own best student and attempt to blend whatever/whomever you choose to follow to help form one's thinking. No easy task.
    A suitable topic area, for a future post.
  • BaluBalu
    edited December 6
    How can I make this ‘unread’ for me so I can come back to it later?
  • yogibearbullyogibearbull
    @BaluBalu, Bookmark it (Star on the right side of the title).
  • BaluBalu
    edited December 6
    I use bookmark more like archive. I look at bookmarked threads only when I am looking for something from the past I vaguely remember. I use it more as a back stop to search which is not fool proof.

    The read / unread feature allows me with not having to remember which threads I have already read or I still have to read., it seems I can not convert a read thread into an unread thread.
  • Old_JoeOld_Joe
    No, we cannot "unread" a thread. I might suggest a couple of thing, both sort of clunky-

    • Copy the post of interest to a small "TextEdit" file (on a Mac) or similar text file on Windows.

    • If you want to keep post info here on MFO, copy the post of interest to "Start New Discussion" and then save that to "My Drafts" instead of posting it.
  • BaluBalu
    edited December 6
    My Drafts will work for me. Thanks.

    I will try to draft a comment in this thread but not post and let us see if that puts the thread also in the My Drafts folder. It decreases the amount of work for the intended result!

    Edit: it worked this time.
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