The game changer is avoiding large losses I stopped: 🛑 Chasing undervalued names 🛑 Buying stocks in a downtrend 🛑 Buying stocks with weak or no earnings 🛑 Buying stocks with high debt Avoiding losses makes it easier to find stock gems 💎 ⬇️ Avoid

Why Investment Returns Matter a 🧵 $100K investment at 9% for 25 years . . = $862,308 Pretty good But What happens if you achieve 12% returns See below⬇️

What comes to mind when I mention the 2008 Financial Crisis? For many, it was a Once in a lifetime opportunity to create wealth. Indexes were down 50% and many stocks were down 80% or more. Right now, I’m looking at a similar situation ⬇️

Spoiler Alert: “Buy what you know” doesn’t work 🛑 Nike. -55% 🛑 Disney. -65% 🛑 Starbucks -42% 🛑 PayPal -68% I’ve been doing this for more than 30 Years and I’ve developed a process to protect your capital from losses 👇 $sbux $nke $dis $bros $pypl

They’ll never tell you this in business school You have to learn it the hard way Before you buy another “undervalued” stock read the next tweet ⬇️

My Process: 🧵 I Start with 8,000 Stocks. Of those 8,000 stocks, only about 300 pass the valuation test. They have to be Extremely undervalued. ✅ Low price to cash flow, low debt, high return on capital, etc That leaves about 300 Undervalued Stocks 👇

Bottoms in the investment world don’t end with four year lows. They end with ten or fifteen year lows.  Jimmy Rodgers

Dividend Investing Doesn’t have to be boring $BTI +62% AND a 6% Dividend Nothing boring about that

“There's no such thing as a worry-free investment—the trick is to separate the valid worries from the idle worries, and then check the worries against the facts.” — Peter Lynch 😉

Chances the market tops on the rate cuts 🤔

"The trick in investing is just to sit there and watch pitch after pitch go by and wait for the one right in your sweet spot, and if people are yelling, 'Swing, you bum!,' ignore them." — Warren Buffett 😉

How many rate cuts over the next two years 🤔

Social security won’t run out They’ll just print more money Which means the money you’re getting is worthLESS! 😉

Six months from now stocks will be 🤔

Will outperform the next 6 months 😉

The first draft in American History involved a clause so the rich didn’t need to fight 👇 •In 1863, during the Civil War, Congress passed the Enrollment Act, which established the first federal conscription system in U.S. history. •All male citizens (and immigrants who had

When the S&P 500 P/E is 23 or higher, the next decade’s returns have typically been in the low single digits — about 2–4% annually, versus the long-term average of ~10% Yikes 😉

Taylor Swift getting married will create a “marriage and baby boom” 🤔

“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” — Benjamin Franklin 😉

Stock Gems isn’t about finding stocks with Asymmetrical Upside. It’s about Freedom ✅ Freedom to quit your job ✅ Freedom to Travel ✅ Freedom to Enjoy your life ✅ Freedom to Retire Early