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How crazy the market was back then! Before 2000, everyone was crazy about buying high-tech stocks, but I still held most of Starbucks. One morning I arrived at the company and found that all the engineers in the company had already arrived. I asked them why they arrived at the company so early today. They said they were going to grab an IPO. At that time, I was confused. What companies could I grab? So this was the starting point of the 2000-year bubble. When a group of people were rushing to buy an IPO, a group of engineers never invested in the IPO.


【The Pain of Investing Comes from Form, Indices Have No Form】 Easy Investment Talk CLEC Investment and Financial Education Academy Blog Date: February 9, 2022 As long as there is a 'one', it gives rise to all beings, it gives rise to problems, it gives rise to worries, it gives rise to the suffering of the world. The QQQ index is nothing; it gives rise to no beings. This is the ultimate bliss of investing, the paradise of investing. Only then can people 'buy, hold, and never sell.' Any investment beyond an index fund is one, giving rise to two, three, five.

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The first stock in my life The first time I held a stock in my life was Acer's stock. At that time, Acer's stock had just been listed. As long as you worked for one year, you could be allotted two stocks, each with 1,000 shares of Acer stock. At that time, I had no idea about the significance of stocks. I only knew that I could exchange them for cash by selling them. Finally, because I was young and had just started working, I wanted to buy a car, so I sold two Acer stocks (they were still selling at a relatively high point at the time), exchanged them for nearly 230,000 in cash, and bought a Yulon Su

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Returning to Taiwan - At the end of 1999, a week before Halloween in the United States, the Taiwanese general manager flew to the United States and made a special trip to the United States to meet me. The first thing he said was to ask me if he could return to Taiwan to help for a year.

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【The Market Will Rise to New Highs!】Easy Investment Talk CLEC Investment and Financial Education Academy Blog Post Date: January 21, 2022 When the market is falling and everyone is more panicked, I suggest that everyone look at longer-term stock charts. Click on the chart below, and you will find that the market is always experiencing tremors. Every time market fluctuations occur, everyone seems to feel that it is very big and scary, as if entering a bear market immediately, as if a 70% bubble is about to burst. In the end, it quickly rises again.

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【Oak Management Howard 2022 Memo】Casual Talk on Investing CLEC Investment and Financial Education Academy Blog Post Date: January 21, 2022 A Worthwhile Investment Memo to Read! The attachment below is my translation into Chinese from 'Howard 2022 Memo': 【Sell Everything】 - Since I am now in the fourth decade of writing memos, sometimes I strongly want to conclude that I should exit, because I have already covered everything
