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Book List 2 – This Book Costs Me $120,000!
By SG ThumbTack investor  •  September 16, 2016

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What’s a book about trading/trend following doing on a deep value blog?

I read this sometime last year, it’s basically a behind the scenes look at the story and the results of a group of trend following investors.

To cut a long story short, a wealthy and successful fund manager decided to do an experiment to prove that he can create super investors. He recruited people from all walks of life, with different backgrounds, educational status and seemingly completely different attitudes, yet by following his teachings, the bulk of them generated very impressive results.

The book continues to follow these “turtle investors” even after the experiment ended, and showed how some of them went on to set up successful funds in their own right.

Now, back to the title.Why did this book cost me $120,000?

After reading the book, I decided to take out $120k to experiment myself. I ...

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By SG ThumbTack investor
I am a Singaporean male in my mid-30s, and this blog chronicles my investing ideas and activities. I hope to search for and find contrarian and deep value investing ideas and will chronicle all these ideas here, both the successes and the failures. (hopefully less of the latter) ...
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