US debt ceiling hits the AORD; Doug Tynan uses A Checklist; Brettalator problems; Apollo is now THL; Using GPT to find companies with a qualified audit; Portfolio updates; Pulled pork on FPR; a refresher on operating cashflow v free cash flow; the correlation between VEA’s share price and crude oil.
This week we discuss the rough week in the AORD, with lots of sell and not much to buy; Commodity updates; sudden drops by CLX and ALO; tips on investing from Morgan Housel, author of The Psychology of Money, and a pulled pork on FHE.
On this episode we talk about interest rate fears continuing to affect the market, PRN’s exposure to commodities, Buffett’s comments on The Intelligent Investor, thoughts about removing Josephines from the buy list, Don Bradman and investing, the Allkem (AKE) merger, a Pulled Pork on QBE, TK’s history with commodity sells, buying banks stocks, value investing article in the AFR, block/brick sizes were used in the Renko tests, does Tony ever check the stocks he holds against what their current QAV Value shows, Tony’s investment in FHE, the new Brettalator, and banks profits vis-a-vis interest rates.
On this episode we got so carried away talking about the highlights of the 2023 Berkshire Hathaway AGM, the OML drop, HotCopper pump and dumper gets prison, Light portfolios beating the benchmark, review the “The Lowest PE” rules, QAN replacing its CEO, NAB getting sold off, pulled pork on PLS, the latest RBA rate rise, the Federal budget, and reviewing the “Buy follows Sell line” and the “Latest Buy Line”, that we ran out of time for questions.
Tony is on his way back from Toronto, so I decided to have a chat about investing with the second smartest intelligence I know — ChatGPT.
Live from Toronto, we talk about the portfolio’s recent performance, steel is now a sell, pulled pork on NAB, share investing vs share trading for tax purposes, update on Renko charts, and the new Brettalator update.