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Joined May 2021
We're excited to share we are joining Y Combinator's W23 batch! Our goal is to make it easy for financial companies and individual with an audience to launch an investment fund to their audience
Welcome to YC W23, @som_mohapatra, @calderwoodra, @_thomasstewart_, and team @quantbase_! Quantbase makes it simple for financial companies and individuals with an audience to turn their investment research/data into an investing strategy: producthunt.com/posts/quantb…
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“Do your own research” shouldn’t mean scrolling until you find confirmation. It should mean: • Understanding the data • Knowing what you don’t know • Being honest about your risk tolerance.
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You cannot control markets. You can control: • What data you see • How fast you see it • The rules you follow when acting on it
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Some losses are tuition. Some losses are avoidable. The difference is whether you wrote a plan or improvised.
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Diversification is humility in disguise. It says I do not know the future. So I will not bet everything on one story.
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Education is free right now. Regret is not. Learning how risk really works is cheaper than pretending you already know.
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The market rewards persistence with a sane process.
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Diversification is admitting you might be wrong in more than one way. That admission is a strength.
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Every trade is a hypothesis. The stop loss, sizing, and time horizon are the actual research design.
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There is no such thing as risk-free. There is only risk you do not see yet.
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Every investor reads price. Fewer investors read their own behavior. Your reactions to fear and greed matter more than any chart.
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One way to think about risk “What happens to me if I am early” is usually more important than “What happens if I am right.”
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Information has a cost even when it is free. The cost is your time and attention. Choose datasets that genuinely improve your understanding instead of ones that simply create more alerts.
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Volatility is the price of participating in something uncertain. The question is whether you sized for that price.
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Judging every decision only by its outcome is dangerous. Sometimes a good process leads to a bad result. Fix the process, not the last coin flip.
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The most dangerous phrase in markets is everybody knows this. If everybody truly knew and agreed, the price would already reflect it. Treat crowded certainty as a signal to slow down.
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If your investment strategy requires you to check your portfolio every day, it’s not a strategy.
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You will never see all the information. You can still make good decisions with partial information if your process is consistent. Consistency is more important than perfection.
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Being early and being wrong feel exactly the same in your brokerage account. That is why risk management matters more than being “right” on the story.
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A 20-year-old investing $200/month will have more at 65 than a 30-year-old investing $500/month. That's how powerful 10 extra years is. Time > money. Every time.
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Clusters matter. Five insiders buying meaningful size in one month deserve more attention than one small trade on a random Tuesday.
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