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<blockquote data-quote="kel" data-source="post: 1272476" data-attributes="member: 17197">That was basically my strategy. But &quot;strategy&quot; is overstating it, I was just going on my gut with what seemed like a successful company. And I had the benefit of the market going nuts the past ten years. I wish I'd gotten in on Shopify, I used them at a past job even.But other stuff, like &quot;Here's some tiny pharmaceutical research company in Latvia that's applying for a patent on x and there are rumors of them acquiring/being acquired by y, might pop 1000%&quot; that seems like a full time job finding all that stuff. They say advisors are bullshit, you're better off just tracking the market, but people here seem to be outperforming, so I dunno. Should I give my money to some dude and tell him to add a zero to the end? Or just do what I used to do, have a portfolio of 3-6 things that either I think are &quot;good&quot; knowing their products and commodity (like water, O&amp;G, etc) that smarter people than me (or maybe just morons with a column on Motley Fool) say are solid?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="kel, post: 1272476, member: 17197"] That was basically my strategy. But "strategy" is overstating it, I was just going on my gut with what seemed like a successful company. And I had the benefit of the market going nuts the past ten years. I wish I'd gotten in on Shopify, I used them at a past job even. But other stuff, like "Here's some tiny pharmaceutical research company in Latvia that's applying for a patent on x and there are rumors of them acquiring/being acquired by y, might pop 1000%" that seems like a full time job finding all that stuff. They say advisors are bullshit, you're better off just tracking the market, but people here seem to be outperforming, so I dunno. Should I give my money to some dude and tell him to add a zero to the end? Or just do what I used to do, have a portfolio of 3-6 things that either I think are "good" knowing their products and commodity (like water, O&G, etc) that smarter people than me (or maybe just morons with a column on Motley Fool) say are solid? [/QUOTE]

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