Another Angle to Noise

Sounds simple, right?

The sheer numbers ( , baby) strategy outlined in the last post?

Well, hmmmm.

What’s simple to someone need not be so to another.

In fact, no one’s going to do it this way, perhaps, almost.

Why so?

For starters, it is the toughest thing in the world to let go of a loser.

Takes years, maybe decades, to become comfortable doing so.

For something like this to actualize, one needs to rewire completely.

Without many hits and knocks on the head, rewiring is not possible.

No one rewires just like that. Only after full tuition fees. Losses. Beatings. Lessons.

Learnt.

And then, on top, we’re being told to add the proceeds to our highest winner.

All lessons in valuation are screaming. Our normal wiring is screaming. Our fingers refuse to punch in the orders. Until we understand the logic.

Something growing rapidly proves so by being your best performer.

No one knows how much growth is left to happen.

All one has is a conjecture, an estimate, a prognosis.

At best.

Nothing more.

You do know one thing though.

This champion grower is allowed max runway in your folio, because it needs to traverse the most distance to becoming the worst performer, who is the kick-out candidate.

So your champion is given the most time to show more spurts of growth. Since you don’t know when these come, owing to the non-linear nature of high growth, you are allowed the privilege to being there the longest in your champion, in an effort to harness multiple spurts. The chances of the champ being kicked out are the lowest at this time.

Then you load up. Buying average goes down. Top guy is now number 2 or 3. No more loading next proceeds into. New number 1 gets new proceeds. Fund accumulators rotate thus. These are good enough candidates too, hovering around the top of your folio. Funds flow into strength. Thus.

After some years, certain holdings continue to perform, and reach multibagger status. You’re represented maximally as per your capacity — the strategy has seen to it. Others got some loads and started to lag. Well above exit level though. Then they catch a spurt and start topping again.

A few head below.

Some even manage an exit.

It’s ok.

You lose 60-70% on the losers exited initially. Over the years, the exit baseline moves up and up. After some years, exits are winning, not losing, since the worst performer in the folio is itself a thin winner. Trajectory is ok.

What are you winning in your top 10 after 10 years?

Are all of your top 10 multibaggers? Likely.

What’s the upside?

In a growth market?

A potentially future high-growth market?

Who claims to know?

Exactly.

Upside…

…can be anything.

Think of a number. A reasonable one seeing the nature of the market.

What’s the 60-70% lost in some holdings?

Noise, right?

Winning the Hand with 2/7

For the first time in life…

…being fully invested…

…seems a better idea.

Dangerous?

Sure.

Can halve in no time.

That’s something we carry with ourselves into the markets.

If we are afraid of something halving, we should look at other pastures.

Why aren’t we afraid of our investments halving fast?

Ever heard of upside?

Well, what is it?

The upside. How much?

Any limits?

In a growth market?

Potential future high-growth market?

Can’t give a number. Except that, over the long term, upside is perhaps nx, with n being a big number.

That’s enough reason to be fully invested.

Full benefit of upticks.

Big uptick days, perhaps 80% of them, are closely embedded with big downtick days.

Reason to stay invested all the time.

Expenses?

Sell the worst weed standing. Spend the proceeds on expenses. The biggest loser finances expenses.

Income?

Top up the winners.

Why?

Why not the losers?

This is a shift in Magic Bull thinking.

Winners have the longest runway before potentially becoming the worst weed standing.

In that long runway, they can double, treble, n-ble. Runway then becomes ultralong.

That’s why add to the winners.

Worst weed standing pivot philosophy allows winners much time to become even bigger winners, adding to the positive loop.

What about the negative loop?

Winner stops performing.

Down.

Down.

Down.

5 notches away from being the worst weed standing.

4 notches.

3.

Starts performing.

Up.

Up.

Up.

Above buying average.

Adding to.

2 bagger.

4 bagger.

Huge runway again.

10 bagger.

Adding to, runway is phenomenal.

100 bagger.

Kachinnnnng.

Some other winner stops winning.

Below buying average.

Down.

Down.

Down.

3 notches to worst weed standing (WWS).

2.

1.

WWS status.

Expense comes up.

Out.

That’s the exit route.

One route to expunge.

The entire philosophy pivots on WWS exit status – on the small trapdoor portal provided for cleaning up the portfolio.

Emotion?

No emotion.

With regard to exit, market dictates what to do.

We just elevated the status of the biggest loser to house-cleaner-in-chief.

That’s turning our biggest loser into a winning strategy pivot.

That’s like winning the hand in Texas Hold’em with a 2/7.

Paying the Price

Hey.

In the markets…

…our convictions fight against each other.

Cut to the ongoing core IT vs AI standoff.

With mega spends on standoff propaganda alone, currently, the AI lobby is winning.

Not…

…comprehensively.

I fight from the core IT lobby side, which, btw, is evolving, obviously not fast enough in the eyes of almost all, and the image badgering continues.

One admits to being wrong for a while.

Admission means action.

Low-conviction SaaS names bow out. Losses taken. From what remains, stronger names bought, in innovative arenas. Ballast. Bought. Clean balance sheets. Vision. Bought.

Coming to the high-conviction names, they will remain.

However, taking on the humiliation of admitting, accepting and dealing with low-conviction losers is something I am deliberately doing.

I’d much rather discuss my losers with you.

It doesn’t mean I’m not holding winners.

It’s just that I’m choosing to discuss my losers with you.

On purpose.

A little bit of humiliation everyday, admitted, acted upon, and gotten rid of, goes a very long way. One wakes up to holding multibaggers, one fine day, sooner than later, in this manner.

And on that day, some of my high-conviction IT names, if still around in portfolio when they beat the propaganda machines of the AI brigade by posting unexpectedly great results, will then also count amongst the multibaggers held.

On the other hand, if this doesn’t happen for a longish enough time, high convictions will turn lower, ultimately underceding a minimal threshold. Since I finance my expenses by selling losers, and put my income into fresh potential winners, underceders will eventually exit. That’s the price one pays for pursuing multibagger accumulation.

Point is, ultimately, losers find the exit door. Before they become losers, they get ample leeway, measured both in time, and in notional losses, since conviction is, for that long time period, high enough to not identify them as weeds. However, once mentality flips, the weed is born in the mind. Once the mind makes up its mind that something is a weed…

…that something needs to be weeded out, …

…only to be replaced with potential flowers, …

…again, and again and again.