Everyone likes high organic growth, but I like figuring out the broader trends because nobody ever takes the time to verify if organic growth is sustainable – they just extrapolate upwards until a bad quarter forces them to extrapolate downwards and that’s how you lose money.

Great microcaps are like lightning in bottle. They are the most powerful force in the public markets. All this stored up energy within a tiny public company ready to be unleashed.

New Post In 1752, Benjamin Franklin flew a kite during a thunderstorm and used the Leyden jar to capture and store the electric charge from lightning, showing its connection to electricity. The ability to capture lightning in a bottle lead to multiple discoveries.

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New Post -⚡️Lightning in a Bottle⚡️ Lightning in a Bottle Characteristics: ✅Micro/Small Market Cap ✅High Organic Growth and/or Operating Leverage ✅A small outstanding share count

New Post Great microcaps are lightning in bottle. They are the most powerful force in the public markets. All this power held within a tiny public company ready to be unleashed.

Fun conversation today with @Greenbackd and @farnamjake1 We talked microcaps, lightening in a bottle stocks, the gap between good and great, baseball, golf, smallcap value, trees, @JournalyticApp is looking for a front end engineer who loves investing.

We started these member spotlights last week. Everyone in microcap loves to talk $XPEL but Jason is one of the only non-insiders to buy early in size and actually hold it for life changing returns. He’s on the Mt Rushmore of Conviction.

Volatility and lumpy are only used to describe "a big move down" never "a big move up".😂

Most of the best stock pickers of all time were very active under the surface. It takes the best investors in the world a few decades of OWNING hundreds of stocks to find a handful that are worthy of holding long-term.

Holding a winner is the best, but dumping a loser is a close second. It’s the losers that steal all your mindshare - those countless hours you spend justifying their mediocrity.

Don’t ever assume larger money is smarter money.

When building your capital base keep your fixed costs low and variable costs variable. Learn to live on a dime so you can turn on one. The first step to becoming financially independent is realizing money is about freedom not consumption.

I announce a day trip to Hershey Park. Kids rejoice like I saved them from a lifetime of misery. $400 later and 30 minutes in - “I’m tired. It’s too hot. I want to go home.” Me - “I will unproduce you.” 😆

The difference between trading and investing: Investing - your intention with every purchase is to hold. Trading - your intention with every purchase is to sell.

"You are born looking like your parents, but you die looking like your decisions." - Kevin DeYoung

The nice thing about @MicroCapClub is we have an incredible amount of talent within our community. I’m looking forward to the next decade. We have a lot to accomplish.

Conviction is like building any relationship. It takes time to develop. It’s impossible to have the same conviction at the beginning of a new investment that you had at the end of a successful investment. Every new investment is a new relationship.

People believe being "halfway committed" is freedom of choice. You are keeping your options open - the ability to change course. It's quite the opposite. Halfway committed is misery because no one ever experiences our full potential.

If you want to be miserable, be halfway committed to things. Halfway committed to your process, halfway committed to your principles, halfway committed to your business, halfway committed to your relationships, halfway committed to your faith, halfway committed to your family.

Stock picking is personal. It takes time to develop your temperament (views on risk, time horizon, volatility) and principles (the attributes of business/people you find attractive). You go from being a sponge to a filter. The ability to disregard 99% of the investing universe.