for some one reason or another i was kind of drawn to markets like i just when i learned about them i found it so fascinating and i i just really wanted to put time into and i really i didn't view it as work i i was just satisfying my curiosity and i think you know i have friends who are great musicians and that sort of thing of a friend who's actually he's an economist but a phenomenal guitarist and he talks about being a teenager and that his parents couldn't get him to put down his guitar like he was driving them nuts like he wouldn't put it down he played it all day all night and that's how he got good and there's not really a shortcut to that yeah and and if you're someone who has a full-time job doing this sort of work i think most of your time is going to be spent doing that work because you're passionate about it and because you enjoy it um and and it's not something and you know it's okay that most of us aren't meant to to be day traders i even think when people choose an investment style like i you know obviously it makes sense to choose an investment style that might have some evidence of having worked for other people in the past but i sometimes think well say for example if you look at famous investors out there with really different styles like you've got say jim simons a quan trader we've got um you know kathy wood a growth investor warren buffett a value investor there's not an awful lot of overlap in what they do but but could one do the others thing probably not because i think also you're you're slightly drawn to it like you know you you're not gonna the type of person who is a value investor is always looking for like a sort of a cheap way of getting something good you know and the type of person who's a growth investor is always looking for the cool new thing and you know to a certain extent you have to look in yourself and say like what kind of person am i and is there an investment style that relates to that because if you if you took warren buffett and told him you know find all the hottest new technologies out there i mean god knows what he'd come to you with you know it'd be like well this company makes bricks but really well yeah you know um you kind of have to also uh i don't know like your your personality will matter when it uh when you're searching because because certain people would love doing what i do most people would find it awfully tedious right and and you know it's funny too because i think a lot of people uh my view has always been that there's room for multiple styles of investing and in fact there has to be really because you can't have one dominant school of investing to dominate the market because just like you mentioned earlier the arbitrage and the evening out of returns will just make that negligible well it would become so obvious that everyone would do it and then it couldn't work right makes sense um i i wanted to talk quickly about uh we discussed it briefly but kind of this retail investor boom that we've seen during the pandemic and partially because uh as a ex-hedge fund manager i was curious on youtube
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