Value Investing

From -52% to +63%: avoid my investing mistakes Thumbnail: -52% → +63% “how to invest,” “how to start investing,” “investing mistakes,” 🎬 Hook In 2022, my portfolio dropped 52.6% — it hurt deeply. but every failure is a lesson in disguise. so i turned my biggest fall into my greatest teacher. after that loss, I gained 59%, 31%, and 63% in the following years. In this video, I’ll share how I turned the worst year of my investing life into my greatest life lesson. That lesson began with a question I didn’t want to face — why did I lose so much? Year My Return SPY Gap 2017 13.02% 20.89% -7.87% 2018 -10.76% -4.92% -5.84% 2019 29.62% 33.33% -3.71% 2020 25.62% 17.72% 7.90% 2021 -3.67% 28.24% -31.91% 🔴 2022 🔴 -52.60% 🔴 -18.41% 🔴 -34.19% 2023 59.75% 25.54% 34.21% 2024 31.27% 25.72% 5.55% 🟢 2025 🟢 63.52% 14.03% 🟢 49.49% Why I Lost Over 50% It wasn’t the market that defeated me — it was the noise in my own mind. There are three reasons why I lost. ...

My Journey to the First 100K in Stocks: What I Learned from My Mistakes Reaching my first 100K in the stock market wasn’t a straight path. It was a journey of trial and error, guided by curiosity, humbled by losses, and eventually anchored in timeless wisdom from Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger. 📊 This Is the History This chart shows the slow and steady journey toward my first 100K in the stock market. An overview of the key stages—from blind buying, to trial and error, to value investing rooted in Buffett and Munger’s principles. Three Stages of My Investing Jounery 1. Buy and Hold—Blindly I started by simply buying stocks and holding them, following a guru on Seeking Alpha called buyandhold2012. I bought many of the stocks he recommended, allocating about 5% to each. ...