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Welcome back to Rule Breaker Investing, a delight to have you with me as we begin

February of 2017. We're going to spend some time this week looking back at February 2016. A year ago this week I picked

five stocks I want to reflect on those stock picks and think back to where we were

with the market back then and what's happened since.

That's going to be a lot of fun and part of the reason it's going to be fun to foreshadow

is that these stock picks did pretty well.

So we're going to learn a little bit about what's happened. I did

listen to last year's podcast and I would highly recommend it by the way if you are

learning investing or you're motivated to do so. I would highly recommend

listening to last year's five stocks to feed the bear. That is the one that we're

reflecting on from February 10th of 2016 because I think in addition to putting out those stocks I

provide some general investing principles around each one of them and I think those

are really helpful and whether we're looking backward to what has

happened or thinking forward about general investing principles to drive

our decision-making I think you might find it interesting but before we get

into that a couple bookkeeping notes first

of all it is helpful from time to time to review where we've been and I just want to

do that briefly because part of making things stick and I'm

alluding to a book title a book I'm reading right now my friend Evan de

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