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#Research101 So I am curious to learn how the rest of the Public Community goes about doing their due diligence before investing! What is your process? I outlined mine here on my blog https://www.ctsshah.com/research101 but you can get a sense from it already in the #My5XYZ series on my YouTube channel. I recently realized that my #StockMarketChallenge might have accidentally shifted from incentivizing people to get involved with investing to incentivizing trading and riskier short term trades. As an advocate for long term investing, I would like to gently steer people to more of a long term mindset and so I decided to change up my challenge for my final month and iteration. So for December instead of a trading challenge, it will be a challenge for who can produce the best due dilligence. Before 2022 starts, I want to see the feeds filled w/ people sharing their due diligence on a company of their choosing. Then at the end of the month, I will select 4 posts and run a poll to see who gets the most votes and the winner will get the $100 via Venmo. Simple enough? Video details to follow on Tuesday. #StockMarketChallenge
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I really appreciate this! I’ve already started reading! Thank you so much!
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@vlaea2 Hope the blog helps. I wrote them in order so if new can start from the very beginning. The book in the first post is one I recommend to every new investor
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Tracy Taylor@BuAnuk4130
Thank you for this information🤗
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Thank you
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Dope. You always giving back. God going to bless you 100 folds just keep believing. Hope you having a dope day bro
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@BuAnuk4130 and @RoyaD you are most welcome
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@GetSlade Always trying to give back! And it has been a wonderful week vacation for me. I feel refreshed and now just a slight dread at the idea of going back to work tomorrow. Hope you had a great time!
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@Tdennis329 😁ty! Hope you had a good Thanksgiving weekend
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Telicia D@Tdennis329
@ctsshah, thank you. Spending time with family was truly amazing and a blessing. My daughter had this same conversation with me last night on how you know which companies to invest in, so this info is right on time.
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@Tdennis329 Awesome to hear and cool that you and your daughter are talking about this!
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That’s why they call you the Doc boss @ctsshah ✌️😎🤙🍺🍻
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@Souja 😂 just a random guy!
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Yessssir 🤷‍♂️😂💯✅✊
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The research is the hard part for me. I have next to no free time to do it.
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@Tuffpickles Investing can be active or passive. There is nothing wrong with sticking to dollar cost averaging into index funds especially if you are too busy for doing the nitty gritty research into individual companies. For me the research is fun and my hobby. So instead of watching TV I do this ... but if it wasn't fun I would just DCA ETFs and call it a day. Some even automate or have roboadvisSee more
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I don’t understand the challenge
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@yaredh300 The challenge is simply that you pick a company and then put together your analysis of the company. I think looking at @Xander882214 's for #ManicMonday posts are a great example of awesome due diligence on a company
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@ctsshah oh so you want us to do a research on a company of our choosing? gotcha!
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@yaredh300 yup! For one lucky winner it will be a paid homework assignment
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This is awesome 👏🏼 Thank you ✨
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Like @GetSlade said.. you're so generous with your knowledge.. thank you and kind!! 💜🦋
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@MicahMcK and @Mani_acMechanic - I look forward to seeing what y’all write up
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You pay the richest & the smartest stock tech in the world, that's how
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This is not some gussing game, you must do all your homework first, if you want to make some real money, and you have to start with like 5 to 10 thousand dollars to get it rolling, and buy the right stocks, it's not easy trust me, it's all hard work, and a lot of research 24/7...!!!
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And sometimes you have to wait, it may take 5 to 10 years to make "big money"
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I JUST DO INVEST BECAUSE IT HAS BETTER ODDS THEN CRAPS. A HIGH RISK INVESTMENT IS BETTEE THEN A LONG NIGHT LOSING AT THE DICE TABLE.
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Finding Greatness@fatheadg6801
My process is #simple as I can possibly get. I just stick to the #facts and a little bit of #intuitiveness the best way I can describe it is that #Number’s don’t lie people #speak lies. To sum it up keep it simple stick to the facts numbers don’t lie and last but not least what does your gut feeling tell you buy or walk away
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