Jay Ciullo
493 posts







Fully exited $MA today. Sad to see it go honestly... Mastercard is still a world-class business. 60% operating margins. 175 billion transactions a year. A toll booth on the global economy. But look at this chart. $MA over the last year: -14%. S&P 500 over the last year: +25%. That's a 39% gap on a stock I was holding while the rest of my portfolio was ripping... I don't care how good a business is. If it's underperforming the index by nearly 40% over a year, that capital needs to be somewhere else. Opportunity cost is real on this one - every pound sitting in $MA was a pound not compounding in $NVDA , $AVGO or $CAT This is probably the hardest lesson in investing. Letting go of a stock you love because the numbers aren't working - Your feelings don't make you money. The data does. Never sell unless the thesis breaks? Sometimes the thesis is fine and the stock just isn't performing at all, even on a longer timeframe - That's enough. Good company, wrong timing so my capital is redeployed elsewhere. What's a stock you've held onto for too long?






Kevin O'Leary says most people waste $15,000 a year on stupid stuff like $5 coffees "Stop buying coffee for five dollars and fifty cents" "You go to work and you spend $15 bucks on a sandwich, what are you an idiot. It costs you 99 cents to make a sandwich at home and bring it with you" "Bring your own water, your own drink or your own coffee mug. You start to add that up every day it's a ton of money" "Most people starting on their job making their first $60,000 piss away about $15,000 a year"



Bezos on CNBC: "You could double the taxes I pay, and it's not gonna help that teacher in Queens. I promise you."






















