🦅 Value Investing
Warren Buffett · Benjamin Graham
Find great businesses trading below their intrinsic value. Buy and hold for years — let compounding do the work. The "boring" approach that historically outperforms.
📌 Real examples: Coca-Cola (KO), Apple (AAPL), Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.B), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) — durable brands with wide moats, held for decades.
⚡ 8/8 AIs — unanimous verdict
📊 Index / Passive Investing
John Bogle
Don't try to beat the market — own the whole market cheaply. Dollar-cost average into index funds. Beat most professionals by doing almost nothing.
📌 Real examples: SPY / VOO (S&P 500), VTI (total US market), QQQ (Nasdaq 100), VT (global). Set up auto-invest and ignore the noise.
🌱 Growth Investing
Philip Fisher
Find companies growing revenues and market share rapidly. Pay a premium for future dominance. Higher upside, higher volatility — patience required.
📌 Real examples: NVIDIA (NVDA) before AI boom, Amazon (AMZN) in 2010s, Shopify (SHOP) — high P/E, high growth, requires conviction through drawdowns.
📈 Trend Trading
Jesse Livermore
Follow price momentum. Buy what's going up, sell what's going down, cut losses fast. Demands iron discipline — most practitioners eventually lose.
📌 Real examples: Bitcoin & crypto cycles, NVDA breakout in 2023, momentum ETFs like MTUM. Success depends entirely on when you enter and exit.
High risk
🌐 Macro Hedge
George Soros · Ray Dalio
Trade across asset classes based on macroeconomic cycles: currencies, bonds, commodities, equities. Extremely high bar for entry.
📌 Real examples: Gold (GLD) as inflation hedge, TLT (long bonds) on rate cuts, oil (USO) on supply shocks, USD/JPY on Fed divergence. Soros shorted the British pound. Dalio uses All Weather.
Expert level