Getting Started Guide Now Available

This week I pub­lished the first draft of our new QAV Get­ting Start­ed Guide. It’s 26 pages long and breaks down the check­list step-by-step. It con­tains a lot of the basic think­ing behind Tony’s val­ue invest­ing sys­tem. You can find it on our Club Mem­ber Resources page. The idea is to turn this into a repos­i­to­ry of expla­na­tions about how to use the invest­ing check­list to help new mem­bers get up and run­ning as quick­ly as pos­si­ble.

Hon­est­ly, though — there’s a learn­ing curve with this stuff and you should expect it will take six months or more of study and prac­tise. Tony has tak­en 30 years of study of the the­o­ry of how to be a suc­cess­ful investor, read­ing God knows how many books, doing his own exper­i­men­ta­tion and analy­sis and regres­sion test­ing, and con­densed it down into a spread­sheet. So it makes sense that it might take the rest of us some time to get up to speed.

We’ve also launched a new pri­vate Face­book group for club mem­bers to com­pare notes on stocks they have analysed. It’s tak­en off very quick­ly and it’s great to see folks will­ing to share their work with the oth­ers. It’s a great learn­ing oppor­tu­ni­ty, as we can all dis­cuss and debate the charts and fig­ures. You can find a link to the group on the club mem­ber resources page as well.

We had our first live Zoom call with club mem­bers last week as well! Tony answered ques­tions for an hour. It’s not the same as hav­ing din­ner, but it’s the best we can do in these weird times.