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TK Journal 2020-09-07

Quick TK Jour­nal update: he told me today that GEAR has breached its sell line so he will be sell­ing his shares tomor­row (I’ll be sell­ing mine too). Just want­ed to let you know ASAP.

TK Journal 2020-09-02

Hold on to your hors­es, peo­ple! I added Gen­er­a­tion Devel­op­ment Group (GDG) to the Man­u­al­ly Entered Data tab and also to the Buy list with a QAV score of 0.24 (Cam con­curs). I came across the inter­est­ing case of Acrow Form­work and Con­struc­tion Ser­vices (ACF). Look­ing…

YEAR ONE REPORT

It’s been twelve months since we start­ed the dum­my port­fo­lio (we’re call­ing the start 1 Sept 2019, which is when we com­plet­ed invest­ing the full start­ing cap­i­tal of $20,000). So how did we do? Accord­ing to my year-end report, our return was 6.27%. That’s a long way…

QAV S03E38 — TOP OR BOTTOM

Should we buy stocks on our buy list from the Top Down or the Bot­tom Up? That’s the ques­tion we try to answer this week. Apart from that, we’re delv­ing into some ques­tions of my own about his check­list, as well as lis­ten­er ques­tions about NTD, FMG, CCP and, in over­time (that’s what I’m call­ing the QAV Club sec­tion now), Tony walks us through how he updates the check­list.

TK Journal 2020-08-27

McGrath Hold­ing Com­pa­ny (MEA) are now a Buy with a QAV score of 0.31 (Cam: 0.25 and I picked up a prob­lem in TK’s sheet — he had a SD IV but I could­n’t see one on the site — to which he replied:) — TK: Looks like anoth­er error in the SD fil­ter. The col­umn for…

TK Journal 2020-08-26

Coven­try Group (CYG) have just become a buy with a QAV score of 0.17 (Cameron: I got 0.16) If we fudge a lit­tle on the high­est peaks then Capral Alu­mini­um (CAA) has just become a buy with a QAV score of 0.33 (Cameron: I failed it on sen­ti­ment, TK seems to be Cruis­ing…

QAV S03E37 — EXTRA FUDGE

This week’s episode con­tains extra invest­ing fudge! We dis­cuss Wilshire GDP / Shiller PE / CAPE ratios, what red flags to look for in com­pa­ny reports, how to score a New 3pt Upturn, Short­man, War­ren Buf­fet­t’s secret, and Tony dis­cuss­es some of the lat­est com­pa­nies that he has eval­u­at­ed.

Warren Buffett: No Such Thing As Too Much Gravy

We’re obvi­ous­ly huge fans of War­ren Buf­fet­t’s style of val­ue invest­ing and the per­for­mance of Berk­shire Hath­away over the last fifty years. Tony’s been talk­ing to me about Buf­fett for many years, and he even bought a share in Berk­shire sev­er­al years ago so he could…

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