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In March 2025, in the thread "Re: OT, out", Umm asked the members: "Do you think it is because America is made up of magical soil that makes businesses based in America magically profitable?" 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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Author: weatherman ✹  😊 😞
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Subject: tune coarsely
Date: 09/21/26 4:11 PM
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for individual stocks, there has been some compelling chat around doing a rapid screen with just 2-3 public high conviction ratios.(justifying which would be an interesting discussion)
then spend minimum time reading on the biz, specifically looking for discard points. use AI last for pre-defined redflag checks, not for positive bias.
any further time spent assumes one has much greater skill at future forecasting than the best at such craft.

(the idea is that natural species adapt to changes coarsely, not finely. may be stretching the analogy here.)

note this is very different from a quant factor zoo approach working via large numbers in a portfolio.

anyone been using this a standard approach when in the bargain bin?
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