Portfolio Manager at Bastion Fiduciary. Views are my own. Not investment advice. On here mostly quoting Bruce Lee and Walt Longmire.

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Congratulations to one of the best to ever do it. One of the greatest, if not the best pitcher of his generation. @JustinVerlander you were an Ace, a World Champion, and a HOF’er.  What an incredible career and one we’ll never see again.
Justin Verlander says goodbye to his teammates And then holds his daughter’s hand as he leaves the mound 🥹
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The final numbers from Justin Verlander’s 21-year Hall of Fame career: Record: 266-159 Games started: 557 ERA: 3.33 ERA+: 128 IP: 3,575.2 H: 3,057 BB: 1,007 K: 3,560 (8th all-time) HR: 374 FIP: 3.44 Cy Young Award: 3 All-Star: 10 World Series champion: 2 American League MVP: 1
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I really wish Alonso stayed with the Mets. I don’t wanna deal with this guy in my division lol
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Fundamental Edge is looking for a Head Financial Modeling Instructor. The ideal candidate is someone who has: 1) The heart, patience and communication skills of a teacher 2) Deep lived experience in building public equity models at a top asset management firm 3) Deep fluency & curiosity around the impact AI can have on financial modeling, including the ability to convert course curriculum into a Skills Pack (customzied to enterprise clients) and contribute to modeling AI evaluations, vendor evaluations & modeling benchmarks AI is rapidly shifting the way public equity investors build financial models. But as the execution layer becomes frictionless, the comprehension layer becomes even more critical. That is the core question we aim to address: in a push-button AI world, how does the investment analyst maintain the ability to generate the deep, nuanced insights out of the financial modeling process? This person will both contribute to our forthcoming Modeling Academy, help build live AI Modeling Bootcamps, and drive our existing "Modeling Week" onsite engagements with asset management & hedge fund clients. This is a flexible/part time role. Geography is flexible (i.e. you can live in Bali if you can fly to NYC/HK/London for enterprise engagements when they arise) Please DM me if you fit this profile!
Head Modeling Instructor — Fundamental Edge Fundamental Edge is seeking an experienced buyside investor and educator to help build and lead Modeling Academy, a practical financial modeling program for early-career equity analysts and professionals transitioning from MBA programs, sell-side research, and investment banking. The program will teach analysts to build, update, and use institutional-grade financial models quickly and effectively. Students will learn the underlying modeling logic, develop sound forecasting judgment, and build repeatable workflows they can apply across sectors. Instruction will combine hands-on model building, real company case studies, and practical applications of AI modeling tools. The role You will help shape the curriculum and serve as a lead instructor, with responsibilities including: - Developing and recording lessons, model demonstrations, and practical exercises. - Teaching core modeling principles, sector-specific considerations, and the connection between operating assumptions, financial forecasts, and investment decisions. - Integrating AI tools into modeling workflows while teaching students to evaluate and validate the output. - Helping source, interview, and prepare guest speakers. - Hosting monthly office hours to answer questions and work through modeling challenges. - Collaborating with the Fundamental Edge team on program production and selected marketing activities. Required experience - Institutional experience building and updating public-equity financial models at a fundamental buyside investment firm. - Experience teaching, training, or coaching students or investment professionals. - Practical experience applying AI tools to financial modeling. - The ability to explain complex concepts clearly and translate investing experience into structured, actionable instruction. - Capacity to develop and record a rigorous curriculum on a defined production schedule. Preferred experience - Modeling public equities across multiple sectors and business models. - Creating courses, internal training programs, or other educational materials. - Helping analysts transition from academic, sell-side, or investment banking models to models designed for buyside investment decisions. - Flexible on location Compensation and structure This is a contract role with revenue-share compensation. - Revenue share from all open-enrollment participants in Modeling Academy. - Potential for additional earnings through custom enterprise training engagements. Timeline Fundamental Edge is targeting a Q4 2026 launch. DM us with your interest and we will provide next steps.
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Pete Alonso, man. He’s likely to finish the year leading the AL in HR and RBI while playing every game for the 3rd straight season. Just an ELITE run producer.
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Pete Alonso wears shirt shading David Stearns for 'f-king formulas' - then homers twice trib.al/yGasHi7
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Trevor Rogers on Pete Alonso: "He's one of the best teammates ever. ... It's probably the best second half performance I've ever seen from a hitter. He could very well be a Hall of Famer when it's all said and done. The fact that I played with him, it's special."
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If the Orioles had 85 wins right now, Pete Alonso might be the frontrunner for AL MVP.
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Pete Alonso is absolutely UNCONSCIOUS! His second homer of the game goes 471 FT 🤯
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Pete Alonso takes the AL home run lead with his 42nd home run!
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"many couldn’t even lift as much as Sumrall, who is now 44 years old." "With a focus on four cornerstone exercises, it improved its previous “max” lifts by a combined 14,443 pounds—enough muscle to pick up an African elephant." @joshstrength @StrengthDebates wsj.com/sports/football/flor…
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Just finished narrating The Investing Mind with the wonderful folks at Factory Underground @fustudios. It was a grind but fun to go back through the material: theinvestingmind.com/ Order now if you you like to listen to books - it will release at the same time as the physical book!
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A lot of you on here never traded during the 1870s and it’s telling.
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“If pressed, we would say that the recent spike in Treasury yields is the greatest threat to the bull case for stocks.” - @DataTrekMB Sept 24, 2026 (Not investment advice).
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@JRogrow I would bet my views here are different than most. I think depth has to be measured longitudinally and latitudinally. How long have you spent following the sector and how much time did you spend going in depth. I view being a serial expert as the way to balance breadth and depth. AI can help manage that balance but not accelerate it imo. But in the same way you can go deep into a sector and then hire an analyst to maintain that sector for you, you can now use AI to help with maintenance so you need fewer analysts. But overall I think there are no shortcuts and people who rely on AI to achieve depth will make more mistakes and provide opportunities for those who earn depth and then use AI to maintain.
I loved this interview with @PitchThePM and Chandler Bocklage (former PM at Point72 that sat directly next to Steve for a decade and current Head of Business Development at Point72 in charge of hiring analysts and PMs)... “Usually, you have to be narrower to try to get deeper. But [Ai] might actually allow people to be as deep but broaden out, which means that you can have a wider universe of potential alphas. It’s pretty exciting.” “Everything can’t be a two-year idea based on compounded earnings growth…Those are great ideas and the thing you can anchor your book on, but you have to have other things that might work in the intervening two years. Very few places are only looking at the P&L over a two-year block.” “You can’t have the same type of ideas…you have to have different themes, different durations, different catalysts…” “To be a long-term successful PM, you can’t be a one-trick pony.” "Alpha decay is compressing. There are more and more people chasing the same alphas.” “Can you teach what you do and what makes you special to somebody else and are you willing to teach what makes you special to somebody else? There are a lot of people that aren’t.” “When a war breaks out, things change, and the PM might have to think about that a little more holistically than the individual analyst.” Thoughts @pmje73, @DanielSLoeb1, @davidein? 🙏💙 (Not investment advice).
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Valuing the intangibles is key…
There is a seismic culture shift for the Orioles. There would be for anyone who had Pete Alonso in their clubhouse.
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I do it for the science ☕️☕️☕️
People who drank more coffee had less body fat, less visceral fat, and more lean mass than less-frequent or non-drinkers. The biggest benefit was seen at 5 or more cups per day. And for men, every extra cup per day was associated with a ~10 ng/dL higher total testosterone. Higher coffee intake was also associated with better glucose and insulin regulation in men. This was an observational study, but mechanistic and experimental evidence actually supports coffee's benefits on metabolic and hormonal health. I'm willing to believe there's a real link here rather than draw a conclusion such as "coffee drinkers live healthier lives in general."
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I completely agree with this AI allows depth of research at scale and hyper-efficient idea generation to reduce time spent on bad ideas. Both can contribute to real acceleration in idea velocity. I think a few things will start to happen: 1) At tight coverage firms, coverage will expand. It is typical for a multi-manager to cap analyst coverage at 50 names. The manual steps required to be deep on 50 names: models built, updated, data work done, sell-side check ins, IR check ins, earnings previews, etc, necessitated these tight coverage areas. When I covered 300 healthcare stocks, I did so with a team of 9, because each analyst had infrastructure and coverage on 30-50 names and we were ready to pounce on any idea at any time (this low latency reaction time has been a key advantage of the multi-manager model...it doesn't take 3 weeks go go through IC to react to a stock dislocation). That 50 stock cap could *easily* today move to 60-80 and I could see it going higher without a lot of comprehension drift. 2) At sectorized but less tight strict coverage firms, the best investors on the team will pick up new coverage areas. At a Tiger Cub and your Consumer Sector Head leaves? Give that coverage to your highly talented Industrials Sector Head, and now he covers both. Would have been very hard to do, and now that combined team definitionally spends more time on the road (BOTH industrials and consumer conferences and HQ visits), but it's possible because there is less infrastructure maintenance to do. 3) Quant firms will, finally, start to build successful Systematic Fundamental businesses, tapping into the same alpha pools that human teams reach today. Many have tried and failed over the last two decades (it's much harder than it seems, having been a part of a few of these), but the technology is finally close enough to attempt this. This will still require a human team, but it's not inconceivable that you will be able to recreate the $ alpha impact of a multi-manager L/S equity business line with one tenth of the headcount. In typical AI parlance, moats everywhere are melting, which, as Chandler points out, is better for idea velocity for humans. But this moat of talent & friction kept machines out of these alpha pools, and that moat is going away. I believe multi's who don't adapt will have a really hard time over the next 3-5 years (and also observe that multi's and the talented, incentivized individual pod teams are some of the most adaptive, creative, hard working people in public markets).
I loved this interview with @PitchThePM and Chandler Bocklage (former PM at Point72 that sat directly next to Steve for a decade and current Head of Business Development at Point72 in charge of hiring analysts and PMs)... “Usually, you have to be narrower to try to get deeper. But [Ai] might actually allow people to be as deep but broaden out, which means that you can have a wider universe of potential alphas. It’s pretty exciting.” “Everything can’t be a two-year idea based on compounded earnings growth…Those are great ideas and the thing you can anchor your book on, but you have to have other things that might work in the intervening two years. Very few places are only looking at the P&L over a two-year block.” “You can’t have the same type of ideas…you have to have different themes, different durations, different catalysts…” “To be a long-term successful PM, you can’t be a one-trick pony.” "Alpha decay is compressing. There are more and more people chasing the same alphas.” “Can you teach what you do and what makes you special to somebody else and are you willing to teach what makes you special to somebody else? There are a lot of people that aren’t.” “When a war breaks out, things change, and the PM might have to think about that a little more holistically than the individual analyst.” Thoughts @pmje73, @DanielSLoeb1, @davidein? 🙏💙 (Not investment advice).
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I loved this interview with @PitchThePM and Chandler Bocklage (former PM at Point72 that sat directly next to Steve for a decade and current Head of Business Development at Point72 in charge of hiring analysts and PMs)... “Usually, you have to be narrower to try to get deeper. But [Ai] might actually allow people to be as deep but broaden out, which means that you can have a wider universe of potential alphas. It’s pretty exciting.” “Everything can’t be a two-year idea based on compounded earnings growth…Those are great ideas and the thing you can anchor your book on, but you have to have other things that might work in the intervening two years. Very few places are only looking at the P&L over a two-year block.” “You can’t have the same type of ideas…you have to have different themes, different durations, different catalysts…” “To be a long-term successful PM, you can’t be a one-trick pony.” "Alpha decay is compressing. There are more and more people chasing the same alphas.” “Can you teach what you do and what makes you special to somebody else and are you willing to teach what makes you special to somebody else? There are a lot of people that aren’t.” “When a war breaks out, things change, and the PM might have to think about that a little more holistically than the individual analyst.” Thoughts @pmje73, @DanielSLoeb1, @davidein? 🙏💙 (Not investment advice).
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