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A systematic 5-year path from "I've lost money before" to "I have a durable system that survives cycles." Built specifically for investors who've been burned by oversizing, leveraged products, or borrowed conviction.
Not someone who picks winners. Someone who: knows what they own and why; has rules they wrote when calm and follow when emotional; can articulate their edge — or honestly admit they don't have one and act accordingly; is unimpressed by their own wins and unbroken by their own losses; doesn't need markets to be exciting; and has been through at least one full cycle without blowing up.
That last one is unfakeable. You cannot speedrun cycle experience — which is why this is a 5-year track, not a 5-week one.
The meta-rule that prevents most retail blowups. Decide allocation before any individual trade.
Read this first — two evenings, reframes everything.
The baseline truth on indexing.
Practical risk thinking from a working investor.
Kills the overconfidence that produces leveraged-ETF trades.
Best single book on portfolio construction for individuals.
Loss aversion, anchoring, overconfidence — the cognitive biases that move accounts.
Most accessible book on stock-picking ever written.
Mental models. Read slowly over weeks.
Books, courses, paper trading, even real positions — none of it sticks without the journal. The journal is the difference between experiencing the market and learning from it.
For every position, log at entry: thesis, size, exit plan, source. At exit: what actually happened, was the thesis right or wrong, did you follow your plan, what would you do differently. Read all entries quarterly. Patterns will emerge.
If you only do one thing from this entire track tomorrow morning: open a doc titled "Investing Journal," write down every position you currently hold, why you hold it, what would make you sell, and how you feel about it. That document is the seed of everything else.
The investors profiled on this site — Buffett, Wood, Dalio, Aschenbrenner — are interesting case studies, not role models. Copying their positions imports their constraints, time horizons, leverage, and tax situation, none of which are yours.
The skill to steal from them is method, not content: how they structure a thesis, how they size, how they exit, what they refuse to do. The 5-year track above is how you build the discipline to actually use what you learn from them, instead of just copying tickers.