by elmads Probabilistic Thinking “If you don’t get this elementary, but mildly unnatural, mathematics of elementary probability into your repertoire, then you go through a long life like a one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest.” -Charlie Munger Everyone of us has been doing probabilistic thinking since we were young, and Read more…
by elmads “The more models we have, the better able we are to solve problems. But if we don’t have the models, we become the proverbial man with a hammer. To the man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail. If you only have one model, you will fit Read more…
by elmads Introduction There is this perception in equity investing that companies who pay dividends are one of the best investments, while the ones who doesn’t are mediocre businesses. These two statements are both right and wrong, because a good company can either pay dividends or not. A wonderful business Read more…
by elmads Investing our hard-earned money in the stock market via owning shares of publicly traded companies, are one of the ways to make our hard-earned money work for us. There are two ways to get those returns in the equity markets, it is through capital gains (the increase of Read more…
by elmads Introduction It might seem weird to see such a title for an article, because how can investing money teach us about life? when it mostly correlates with numbers, finances, money strategies, capital allocation and economics? Yet, there’s this one factor that most of us forget about this endeavour. Read more…
by elmads Introduction Knowing how a company makes money, is also understanding generally what it does. On an individual employee level, when somebody ask us what we do for a living, we usually answer such question in a generalized manner, either by saying what we do at work and/or our Read more…
by elmads I do not own shares of Meta platforms. This article is for informational purposes only and not a Financial Recommendation Introduction I started my value investing journey in 2019, an investment strategy that focuses on the fundamentals of a company. On how to understand how the company makes Read more…
by elmads Introduction I started investing when I was 23-years-old, this was back in 2013. It was all thanks to my dad and uncle, they told me that instead of just saving my money and putting it in a bank, I should invest it instead in companies that will grow Read more…
by elmads Introduction All endeavours that relates to committing money with the expectation of it to grow in the future is called investing. Either, it’ll be for starting our own business, or just exchanging money for an asset that we deem will appreciate overtime. The question here is, how will Read more…
by elmads This is the second part of the Liquidity & Debt Metric series. If you have not read the 1st part yet, I’ve provided the link down below. “Fundamental Analysis – Liquidity Metrics Part 1” A company’s survivability is based on how secure their financials are. The one who Read more…