Everyone in a genius when it comes to a bull market, I recently came across this line on YouTube and I thought it was quite interesting because it made me a little bit angry. And a lot of people think that, you know, when someone achieves good results, they would just say, well, did you know, everyone is a genius in a bull market? And I understand where they're coming from. When you're looking at a bull markets, it is technically easier to make money because the market is up. And in this video, I'm going to talk about how to think about this single sentence, this dogma per se, created by the crowd, because they are afraid of losing money and to create this trust in other people's results.

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So first off, let's think about this sentence. Everyone is a genius in a bull market. How do people with defined other people as genius? Well, the fact that they're making money, basically, you know, maybe I'm making 15, 20% in a bull market and then counter argument would be, well, of course you're making money because it's a bull market. And as if that has justified their success and such that their success is nothing special, and this is a very important mistake to avoid. Because when you think about the markets for the last 20 years, you have to 2020 market crash, right? We're just experiencing the 2008 market crash for real estate. You also had the.com crash in 2000. Now, when you think about all three crashes in the last 20 years, so we just keep that simple picture in mind and you flip it around. It means that out of 20 years, 17 years are going up.

If you call everyone is a genius. When it is a bull market, then essentially the entire market is a genius. There's no distinction. Well, 17 years are going up. And the truth is, if you are not investing, you're not a genius, right? When someone say to you, everyone is a genius at a bull market, you gotta be very careful and you need to think deeply about what they're saying. If everyone is a genius in a bull markets, and that's your justification for other people's success, and you're only looking at the surface. Now, let me give you one example. Cathy wood from arc in 2020, she made 124% from RK, which one of the fund. And if you don't want to believe in her success, then you can simply say, everyone is a genius in Nepal markets, right? Your brain shuts off. You don't need to look further.

There's no further reason for our success because obviously everyone is a genius in the bull market. Another example, 2020 bill Ackman made 80 something percent for his portfolio. Well, 2020 is a good year. Everyone is a genius in a bull market. And you see how that kind of thinking is actually limiting your mind to seeing beyond the results. For example, Cassie would focuses on investing in innovative companies that are loss-making, which means higher risks and would be profit-making in the future. Now, as of today, she's investing in the company, it's making a loss. Is there any guarantee that's the company will make a profit in the future? No. So what's the secret. The secret is that she does her research. That kind of hard work is what you don't see on screen. When you go to the website for Ark, they kind of explain a little bit about their investing strategy and it gives you their return for the last five years.

And that's pretty much it. And for bill Ackman, he made 80 something percent this year. And what you don't see is again, his ability to time to market. So the ability to short before the COVID crash, such that he made billions dollar on the way down and also made billions of dollars on the way up. When you think about other people posting their success, there is something for you to learn from them. And each hedge fund manager, investment manager, YouTube GRU has their own investing strategy. And your goal as the viewer is to learn what that secret is, is to study them is to take the lessons from them and not develop hate. Because when you think about investing and you're on this journey to learning, investing, what's really, really important is that you master investing, it's not important for Kathy would myself, bill Ackman, Warren buffet do master investing because we have already done that is your job to make sure your self is successful.

And the way I see it is that if someone is telling me, everyone is a genius in a bull market, they're simply hurts because they have experienced some losses before, which I also have. And they have been burned by another course and not a guru or something else. When you are learning something new, there is a chance of failure. And for myself, I have placed over 3000 trades. So I can confidently say I failed three dozen times. Most of them are losers before I figure out the strategy. And the difference between someone who has mastered investing versus someone who has not it's knowledge. And you can acquire knowledge in two ways. First, you tried yourself and I've done that route. And I can simply tell you, you need to try a lot of strategies. I tried 300 strategies, and I only came up with a handful that work, and I only personally use a single strategy.

So when you think about investing, think about everyone as a genius in a bull market, think all of this together, there is a certain amount of hard work you need to put in. And the truth is no one has a crystal ball to tell you what's going to happen going forward. So you need to do all your own research. And if you do your own research and you invest in the markets over time, you will make money. Because when you look at the S and P 500, it goes up by around 8% a year. And when you say everyone is a genius and the bull market is simply not helpful to yourself, because it's just your mind off from seeing what is truly important. What's truly important is given the market is going 8% a year. Are you faster or slower than the markets? And that's, what's important.

If you are making the same as what everyone else is making, then technically your boat is just rising along with the tide. You're not really going faster than everyone else. You're just going the same pace as everyone else. Now that is not a bad strategy. If you don't know anything about investing, if you are going to put in the effort to master investing, then you want to go faster than the general public. And you know, the general public is 8%, right? They tell you already. So you know that. So if you are able to achieve 15% when the market is making 10%, I want to say, congratulations, because you are a genius. If you're not able to achieve 8% and you're making 5%, maybe you're even losing money during the bull market that I want to say, don't give up because chances are, you are somewhere along your investing journey before you are enlightened, per se.

I can share a little bit about my personal story. When I started investing 13 years ago, now I spend the first eight years trying different strategies. Now, what people don't really understand is what trying different strategies really mean. It means you're failing. It means you're losing. It means you're making bad decisions and you're losing money. You're frustrated because you spent all night waking up till 2:00 AM in the morning, testing out different parameters within a single strategy to figure out whether it works or not. It means a lot of failure. It's not like you're going up this staircase. And every step you go up along the way, most of the time you're going down. If not most of the time, it's all the time you're going down until you figure it out. And this is something very interesting about investing is that until you have all the pieces together, working for you, your car for a vehicle, it's basically broken because you can imagine you have a car, you have no gas.

Well, it wouldn't start. Even though it as a perfect car, imagine you have a car without the engine. Well, it wouldn't start to because it's missing the engine. Even though you have four wheels, even though you have gas, even though you have all the little outer components, and that's why learning, investing by yourself takes such a long time. You need to have all the components for the car. And if you're missing one component, that car can break down. Imagine you have one wheel instead of three wheels. See, I think you get the analogy by now. So when someone tells you in the future, that everyone is a genius in a bull market, stop give yourself some time to think, try to understand why that person is successful. There's a secret to it. There's a formula to it. And it is possibly repeatable as well. And if something can be repeatable, then you can learn from that person such that you can replicate the results for yourself.

Because when it comes to your investing journey, what's important is not that Warren buffet is making 30% a year or bill Ackman or Cathy wood or myself. What's important. It's you are making a better return is that you become more confident when it comes to investing is that you have faith in your investing strategy or the mutual funds you choose. And that's, you are able to sleep at night and make a higher return than the market. And if you decide to invest in ETF funds and get 8% and you sleep at night, fantastic, that's great. And it's a decision. And as long as you are fully aware of that, and you are making that conscious decision, you'll be in a good shape. I made the CDO just for you. So then it gives you some inspiration to move forward and not get bogged down by all the noise on YouTube. Because obviously there are a lot of YouTubers there. I know some of them have great pension and they make these kinds of videos where to tell you, everyone is a genius in a bull market. When in fact you need to look a little bit deeper than that. So

When it comes to investing, my goal is really to make 30% a year. And when I first started, this definitely seemed like a stretch goal to me is like going to Mars. And after I've mastered investing, I actually help a lot of other people to master investing as well. For example, Serena, where she made 32% from Altrix in two months, and this is the 117 case study in investing accelerator. So if you want to learn more, then I would strongly suggest you to grab the four hour free training on my website. And this is perfect for you. If you are a full-time professional retiree with no financial background, and you want to manage your own portfolio with confidence, and you want to learn how to get 30% per year. So this training is a beast. And if you have never attended it, a lot of people are very impressed by the content I put within there.

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