Stock selection is to keep going through the sieve, from big holes to small holes, from coarse mesh to fine mesh, over and over again. Until the finest and highest quality stocks are screened out.In the early stage of investment, few but fine are passive and need your control. Although you don't know what's right yet, you already know what's wrong, so it will be hard to control your behavior with willpower, which is certain and insurmountable.At the beginning, the granularity research is coarse, it doesn't matter, and it is slowly eliminated. For example, you can screen by industry, then remove some according to business model, and then remove some according to assets and liabilities, etc. In each round of screening, only the best ones are retained and the poor ones are removed.
Some people will ask, how much is less? Personally, if your capital does not exceed 1 million and you hold up to 5 or 6 stocks at the same time, that's enough. Even if you average the score, each stock will have nearly 200,000 funds, and 20% of the positions will be enough, regardless of the profit value of a single stock or the contribution to the portfolio.If you want to control the smoothness of the overall account, the position can be appropriately small, such as a medium position, and some funds can be reserved for better opportunities. In this way, you can attack and defend. You expect to go up, but you are not afraid of going down, because you are still a potential buyer, and you can do it more easily.The logic of profiteering is less but better.
The logic of profiteering is less but better.At the late stage of investment, when your understanding of investment and the logic of stock market operation are very clear, you will take the initiative if you are few but fine, and you no longer need to forcibly control your behavior. At that time, you will naturally choose only those pearls in the crown.In the early stage of investment, few but fine are passive and need your control. Although you don't know what's right yet, you already know what's wrong, so it will be hard to control your behavior with willpower, which is certain and insurmountable.