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Rule Breaker Investing

June Mailbag: Is Diversification Overrated? Should You Be Picking Stocks? Do You Have a Buy Discipline?

Rule Breaker Investing

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🗓️ 29 June 2016

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Are you cut out to pick stocks or should you stick to index funds? Should your first thought be your final thought? Is what to buy > when to sell? All this and more as we go over your questions and comments in today’s monthly mailbag episode!

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It's the Rule Breaker Investing Podcast

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with Motley Fool co-founder David Gardner.

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Welcome back to Rule Breaker. Gardner.

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Welcome back to Rule Breaker Investing.

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It is the final Wednesday of the month of June and therefore it is time for our June 2016 mailbag.

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And as usual, I have a wonderful motley collection

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of emails and tweets to react to.

0:48.5

Since this is the summer, and technically I'm away

0:51.3

at the time this is broadcast, I'm on summer break. This will be a little bit quicker, a little bit easier, a little bit less work on my part since it is after all the end of June, not I don't know when I'm really productive maybe the end of June, not, I don't know, when I'm really productive, maybe the end of September.

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So if you think I'm blowing it off a little bit this week by reading more of your stuff,

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rather than reacting to it myself, you might be right, but I'm really looking forward to sharing some foolishness

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that's come through the internet to us this week through your wonderful tweets and

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emails. And before I started off this month let me mention when I have more things to select from than I can choose,

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some of the factors that cause me to select this one, not that one for mailbag.

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One of them is when you're reacting to something we've done that month and that's my first few

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here this particular mailbag you sent me a couple of Buffett quotes that you like

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you also included a quote reacting to my campfire stories, one of my campfire stories

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earlier this month. So yes, I'm a little bit of a sucker for tweets reacting to

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