# \*\* Notes • Most of my analysis was about the how the business is positioned to succeed, how effective the management is setting and acheiving its goals, how the business is performing, and what factors will influence whether or not the company succeeds over time. • I tend to invest like a venture capitalist but with public companies. I prefer to invest in smaller companies that have great potential and I understand that some, if not many, of my investment theses will fail completely because the company in question went bankrupt. Even if a few of the companies in which I invest become fantastically profitable companies, I will do very well over time. • My style of investing is something I developed that works for me. Compying my style will probably cause you to lose all of the money you invested. • The most important thing for you to do as an investor is to know yourself. You must know your tollerance for risk, how you will behave when markets are volatile and wildly irrational. • You must know what you are willing to risk for what return. Investing is distinct from gambling but there is a certan amount of luck involved in doing well. • Patience, Dollar Cost Averaging (DCA), and position sizing and portfolio management are skills that every investor should learn. • I believe in investing in asymmetrical oportunities where the risk has limited downside but very promosing potential upside. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://xponentialfinance.gitbook.io/xponential-finance/strategies/notes.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.