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Stan Druckenmiller just explained the one rule that separates great investors from everyone else.
"If the reason I bought a stock is no longer the case, I don't care what I paid for it."
No anchoring to your cost basis. No waiting to break even. Clean slate.
He bought at $60. It drops to $50. Most investors sit paralyzed waiting to get back to where they started. Druckenmiller has zero emotion about it and sells immediately.
"I just don't care what I paid for a stock. It's absolutely irrelevant to my investment process going forward."
This is actually what support and resistance on a chart is measuring. Resistance at $60 means a crowd of people bought at $60, watched it fall, and have been waiting three or four years just to break even. While they waited, they missed everything that was going up the whole time.
Anchoring to your cost basis is one of the most expensive habits in investing.
But Druckenmiller pairs this with something most people struggle to do at the same time: concentration.
"Not being afraid of concentration is a big reason for my success."
He plays across five buckets: equities, bonds, currencies, commodities, and credit. When one market has no clear edge, he finds one that does and sizes up there instead. Bear market in equities? The real action moves to bonds and currencies. He just follows it.
Unemotional about losses. Concentrated when he has conviction. Flexible across markets.
That combination is what kept him from ever having a down year.
Our analysts use the same discipline sizing into high conviction positions across sectors.
They were early to $AMD, $MU, $BE and $CRDO before their big run ups.
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