Delayed Gratification: The Investor's Superpower

Delayed Gratification: The Investor's Superpower

There is a peculiar paradox at the heart of investing. The financial markets offer, in theory, an open competition: every participant sees the same price data, reads the same earnings releases, and may act on the same information at the same moment. Yet outcomes diverge so dramatically — between the institutional fund manager and the … Read more

Howard Marks and the Discipline of Second-Order Thinking: What Most Investors Get Wrong

Second-order thinking in investing is the practice of looking beyond your own analysis of an asset’s fundamentals to consider what the market consensus already believes, and whether that consensus is wrong in a way that creates a mispricing opportunity. Source: Wikimedia Commons Second-order thinking in investing is the practice of asking not merely “what will … Read more

Benjamin Graham's Mr. Market: The Most Useful Fictional Character in Finance

Mr. Market is a fictional business partner invented by Benjamin Graham to represent the stock market’s daily pricing mechanism, characterized by manic-depressive mood swings that create irrational prices from which a disciplined investor can profit or ignore. Source: Wikimedia Commons Mr. Market is a fictional business partner invented by Benjamin Graham in 1949 to represent … Read more