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Rule Breaker Investing

Meet the World’s Worst Investor

Rule Breaker Investing

The Motley Fool

Investing, Business

4.5928 Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2015

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

We all feel like the world's worst investor sometimes. David coaches on how to handle yourself - and your portfolio - when the market is down and your confidence in your investing abilities has been dragged down with it.

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's the Rule Breaker Investing Podcast with Motley Full Co-founder David Gardner.

0:07.0

And welcome back to Rule Breaker Investing. I'm so glad you're with me this week.

0:13.8

And happy pre- Thanksgiving to all US Americans

0:18.6

and to all the rest of you.

0:19.8

I hope you're enjoying late November.

0:22.9

So this week I'm reflecting a little bit

0:26.0

on the earnings season that has been.

0:28.5

We're mostly through earnings at this point,

0:30.0

companies that

0:33.7

is typically report on September 30th as a quarter end,

0:34.6

whether it's a year end or a quarter end,

0:36.8

they're reporting earnings.

0:37.7

And you have to wait several weeks, usually four weeks or so.

0:41.3

And by the sixth week or so past that time we've seen all the earnings

0:45.2

so late November we've seen the September earnings and I have to say it felt like a minefield

0:50.6

out there for me I don't know about you, but it seemed many a morning I would wake up and see one of my stocks,

0:56.8

sometimes one of my favorite stocks, down 10% or more. In fact, I asked our numbers guys here at

1:02.4

the Fool to run which stocks have moved and I have to tell you I'm surprised that we've had some good positive movements

1:10.9

Because I was thinking it was just all stuff blowing up down 20%, but we've actually had, we did have some nice gains.

1:17.0

We've had some nice performance by Netgear, one of my stock recommendations in stock advisor.

1:22.0

Amazon.com seems to do well.

1:25.0

All year long Amazon.com's done well.

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