The Buy Low Sell High Conundrum

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This week, we’re talking about:

The Buy Low Sell High Conundrum

Buy Low.  Sell High.

Simple as could be. 

And yet, it goes against human nature.

The exciting investments people want to talk about and join in on are the ones that are UP!

I see this all the time as a justification for an investment:

“Why did you buy that?”

“Because it was up 500% in the past two years!”

The media plays into this as well. Every day there’s an article:

“If you put $1 into XYZ five years ago, you’d be sailing your yacht on the Amalfi Coast right now.”

This is what was being written about MSTR stock at this time last year. 

Cryptonian God Michael Saylor ***used to*** fall back on this logic in every interview.

How is that going been going this year, Mikey?

By the laws of economics, everyone can’t be buying low and selling high.

More Buyers = Higher Price

So how do we avoid this meme?

What is the key to curb this conundrum?

If I could sum it all up in a simple sentence:

Ignore the narrative.

Many moons ago, back in… April… the narrative around GOOG was:

“Google Search is cooked. Gen Z doesn’t use ‘google’ as a verb, and ChatGPT exists.”

“The Department of Justice is going to break their monopolistic ass to pieces.”

But the narrative was purely anecdotal.

Google Search was growing 13% per year.

The Department of Justice doesn’t have unlimited power to do whatever they want.

Sometimes it takes years for the narrative to flip. Sometimes it is just a couple of months:

But I know what you’re thinking…

“Listen, egghead, just get me the cashola”

So here are some of the best buy lows heading into 2026.

1. UBER

 2. DUOL

3. VICI

4. NFLX

 5. TXN

Final Thought

I hope you sold high on your Fartcoin last year…

This year wasn’t so kind to the flatulent fiat.