Ivaylo Ivanov > Quotes

“Това е самотата да тъгуваш
по онзи свят, във който всъщност ти
не си живял - и затова го чуваш
как на кръвта в пейзажите цъфти.”
― Ivaylo Ivanov

“Small float, a bull market and a good story are an explosive combination of catalysts. When thousands of institutions compete to own a small number of stocks, we could see gigantic moves in short periods of time.”
― Ivaylo Ivanov, The Next Apple: How To Own The Best Performing Stocks In Any Given Year

“The allure of future earnings is what often drives investors’ decision making, not the reality.”
― Ivaylo Ivanov, The Next Apple: How To Own The Best Performing Stocks In Any Given Year

“Only 71 companies from the original 1955 Fortune 500 list remain today.”
― Ivaylo Ivanov, The Next Apple: How To Own The Best Performing Stocks In Any Given Year

“Frankly, I’ve never been able to predict which stocks will go up tenfold, or which will go up fivefold. I try to stick with them as long as the story’s intact, hoping to be pleasantly surprised. The success of a company isn’t the surprise, but what the shares bring often is.”     Prices”
― Ivaylo Ivanov, The Next Apple: How To Own The Best Performing Stocks In Any Given Year

“Never love anything that cannot love you back. The market doesn’t love anyone. It doesn’t care about your personal agenda.”
― Ivaylo Ivanov, The Next Apple: How To Own The Best Performing Stocks In Any Given Year

“Baidu gained 350% on its first trading day,”
― Ivaylo Ivanov, The Next Apple: How To Own The Best Performing Stocks In Any Given Year

“Financial markets strive to be forward-looking, but not when it comes to underfollowed small cap stocks in obscure industries. Such stocks remain under the radar of most investors until they report huge acceleration in earnings growth. When a company that used to grow at 5 to 10% suddenly reports a 300% increase in earnings and a 100% increase in sales, it will grab the attention of many investors.”
― Ivaylo Ivanov, The Next Apple: How To Own The Best Performing Stocks In Any Given Year

“Prices don’t change when fundamentals change. Prices change when expectations change, and the latter could change for various irrational reasons.”
― Ivaylo Ivanov, The Next Apple: How To Own The Best Performing Stocks In Any Given Year

“It is the anticipation of future earnings that excites people, not the reality.” - Darvas     Apple’s”
― Ivaylo Ivanov, The Next Apple: How To Own The Best Performing Stocks In Any Given Year

“There are times when the fear of missing out trumps the fear of losing. People start to chase, price momentum becomes its own catalyst and short-sellers are mercilessly squeezed, sending prices higher with unimaginable velocity.”
― Ivaylo Ivanov, The Next Apple: How To Own The Best Performing Stocks In Any Given Year

“1) Start with price. This approach will give you ideas in areas you don’t necessarily understand, but you don’t have to in order to make money – or at least you could quickly educate yourself.”
― Ivaylo Ivanov, The Next Apple: How To Own The Best Performing Stocks In Any Given Year

“High growth is rare, and financial markets reward it generously.”
― Ivaylo Ivanov, The Next Apple: How To Own The Best Performing Stocks In Any Given Year

“Nike, Microsoft Amazon and similar companies went public relatively early in their growth cycles. As a result, public investors had the opportunity to participate in 95 to 99% of their overall price appreciation. Founders, early employees and VCs took all the risk. Most of the reward was left for grabbing – anyone could’ve bought those stocks on the secondary markets.   As the Federal Reserve prints more money and interest rates remain low, an increasing percentage of capital is flowing into risky asset classes like venture capital and “angel investing.” This capital has chased up valuations in the pipeline preceding IPOs, making the IPOs feel more like the end of the journey, not the beginning. Thus,”
― Ivaylo Ivanov, The Next Apple: How To Own The Best Performing Stocks In Any Given Year

“They say that the biggest opportunities are often outside of most people’s comfort zones. The juiciest market returns are where very few are willing to go. Momentum investing is the ultimate contrarian approach. How many investors would venture to buy a stock that is already up 50% in the past six months? Psychologically, it is a lot harder to buy in this situation than to sell, isn’t it?   How ridiculous does it sound that stocks that went up 50% in the past six months are likely to outperform in the next six months? Stock picking cannot be that easy, right? There has to be some complicated formula that takes into account hundreds of different criteria in order to have a chance at outperforming the market. Sometimes the most effective methods are the simplest. Most people stay away from them exactly because they seem too simple to work. There is nothing magic about using past performance to select future winners. It is all about simple math.   What”
― Ivaylo Ivanov, The Next Apple: How To Own The Best Performing Stocks In Any Given Year

“Why is it that the very same company sometimes gets valued at 25 times earnings and sometimes it gets valued at 100 times earnings? It all depends on people’s expectations. Not so much expectations about earnings growth, but expectations about making money in that stock. When”
― Ivaylo Ivanov, The Next Apple: How To Own The Best Performing Stocks In Any Given Year