IFB261: Mr Market and Margin of Safety: Our Two Favorite Mental Models

The Investing for Beginners Podcast - Your Path to Financial Freedom

Andrew Sather

Investing, Business

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🗓️ 16 February 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Welcome to the Investing for Beginners podcast! In today's episode, we will discuss two of our favorite mental models that every long term investors should have! These two concepts are undeniably not new and came from Graham's seminal book, the Intelligent Investor but these mental models are timeless and will always be apt no matter what economic cycle we are. As long as human emotions and behaviors are in play in the stock market, these concepts will stay so listen on! Timestamps in the episode: -Back to basics: What's the stock market really is. [02:30] -The Mr. Market mental concept: the stock market personified. [04:40] -How to handle the ups and downs of Mr. Market. [09:28] -The true edge of individual investors. [13:15] -Margin of safety: paying less for what's its worth! [14:14] -Patience and thinking more of the downside than the upside in investing. [20:04] Note: Timestamps may differ and are approximate, depending on your podcast player. For more insight like this into investing and stock selection for beginners, visit stockmarketpdf.com Listener survey SUBSCRIBE TO THE SHOW Apple | Spotify | Google | Stitcher | Tunein You can find the transcript of today's show below: IFB262-Mr-Market-and-Margin-of-SafetyDownload Contact sales@advertisecast.com to advertise on Investing for Beginners podcast. The Investing for Beginners podcast is part of the Airwave Media podcast network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:50.0	All right folks, welcome to Investing for Beginner's Podcast.
0:53.0	Today we have episode 261.
0:56.0	Today Andrew and I are going to talk about two of our favorite mental models as they pertain to the stock market.
1:02.0	We talked about these back in 2017 and they are still our two favorite models.
1:07.0	They surround the idea of a margin of safety and Mr. Market.
1:11.0	And we thought we would talk about this a little bit about coming up from an angle of new investors and how people just getting into the market can use these ideas to help them get started and have success early on.
1:22.0	So Andrew, I know you were talking about kind of beginning investors.
1:26.0	Do you want to kind of start there and we'll just kind of go through our conversation?
1:30.0	Yeah, sounds good.
1:31.0	I guess the first question would be what's the stock market and what does it do?
1:37.0	So how would you answer at least one of those?
1:40.0	Well, I would say that it's not a casino.
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