266- Taking a Position: Buy, Sell, or Wait?
InvestED: The Rule #1 Investing Podcast
Phil Town & Danielle Town
4.6 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2020
⏱️ 33 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody this is Phil Town and this is Phil Town and this is Danielle Town |
| 0:08.8 | welcome to the invested podcast where we are learning something very important as we go into this whole COVID pandemic. |
| 0:17.0 | We're learning how to invest the way Buffett does it. |
| 0:20.0 | As we deal with it. |
| 0:22.0 | Yeah, and since Buffett is sitting, as we just found out a week ago, sitting on top of over |
| 0:28.9 | $130 billion in cash and didn't see anything that he was interested in buying and unloaded |
| 0:35.2 | all four airlines over that time period so he was selling more than buying he |
| 0:40.5 | wasn't even buying his own stock per down when it was at 175 a share or so |
| 0:47.2 | So this is all extremely interesting and food for for thought about how to properly invest, watching, you know, arguably the best |
| 0:56.4 | investor in the world for the kind of investing we can do. Okay, there are guys out there like, |
| 1:01.6 | you know, Jim Simon and Mercer and these guys who have figured out how to do |
| 1:09.6 | quantitative investing and that's just a whole different world. |
| 1:13.0 | If you're a rocket scientist and you want to make huge rates of return, |
| 1:16.0 | then go how to learn, go learn how do they do it. |
| 1:19.0 | But for the rest of us, for all the rest of us, we don't have 190 IQs, the way to invest here is not an IQ-related |
| 1:26.2 | investment process. |
| 1:27.9 | This is not about how smart you are and how cleverly you can figure out numbers. |
| 1:33.0 | This is mostly about having a small number of things |
| 1:37.0 | that we focus on for a company that we understand. |
| 1:41.6 | And if this company has these key components to it and we |
| 1:47.1 | understand the business then we're just waiting for a good price and you |
| 1:50.7 | well and that's the as you pointed out that's the interesting part of what's going on right now is |
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