I just celebrated my birthday this month. I am now a year away from officially turning 40. 20 years ago, my birthday celebrations were held at bars and usually ended in a drunken stupor somewhere after midnight. Today, I spend the evening of my birthday telling my boys that “Hey, get off the couch!”
“Don’t keep blowing out Papa’s candle!”
Over the years my investment strategy has evolved, just like my birthdays. I have been investing for 16 years. My university roommate got me into this game by lending me Benjamin Graham’s first book, The Intelligent Investor. Soon, I became addicted. I bought my first stock in 2010. At that time, I spent most of my evenings in my university hall room writing notes about investing that I had read online and in books. When I started the advice was simple: buy good companies, never overpay. But I was stubborn like a bull…
