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In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Investment Strategies / Mechanical Investing
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Author: elann 🐝🐝 HONORARY
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Subject: Re: No rankings
Date: 07/03/25 9:43 PM
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I'm not actually using the data except for statistical analysis these days, having shut down my MI portfolio in March. I keep it up more just by habit, and because I paid for multiple years of subscription in advance. I'm a data pack rat.

I hear you. I'm not in exactly the same situation, living in the U.S. with my financial life anchored here for better or worse. I've been very gradually divesting from individual stocks because of the decidedly dark future I see for this country - for the duration of this presidency and possibly much longer. I've also seen no advantage for mechanical stock picking, compared to index investing, for a few years now. At my age, the thrill of trying to beat the market by 2-3% per year, and failing at it, is no longer there. So if and when the market is ever attractively priced again, I expect to redeploy my cash into index investments. Like you, I keep doing the weekly rankings altruistically by force of habit, and because I've had a monthly automatically renewing VL subscription at half price for 25 years now. And like you, I'm a data pack rat and I can't let go. :-)

Elan
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