Welcome to The LT3000 Blog.
I have recently left a decade-long occupation as a
professional securities analyst to pursue my passion as a full time investor,
and perhaps eventually found and run my own fund. Owing to the now onerously-burdensome
(and hence costly) regulatory requirements involved in establishing a fund these days, barriers to entry have risen for small-time punters such as myself.
As a waystation, I am managing a small pool my own and friend & family money, and in the meantime, am enjoying being able to dedicate all of my energies to improving my capabilities as an investor.
I have no grand ambitions for this blog – it just seemed
like a fun thing to experiment with. I enjoy writing, and putting ones thoughts
into writing is also a useful discipline. It quickly reveals any gaps in the chain
of logic; missing facts; or insufficiently-scrutinized assumptions that may
have crept into ones though process undetected. I do not wish for this blog to
become a chore, however, so I intend to only post as frequently as a I feel inclined.
Aside from satisfying my inability to keep my thoughts to
myself, my goals with this blog are to connect with
other like-minded individuals; plug myself into the global value investor community; and to have my thinking tested by other
competent investors. I primarily work alone at present so such testing is valuable. Please
feel free to be as brutal as you wish in the comments (although please keep discussions with others civil) – I enjoy intellectual sparing and I am
not easily offended.
The “LT3000” reference is a combination of my initials/nickname, and also a second nickname I acquired early in my career, “3000”, a
jestful part-insult part-complement coined by a senior trader, which stuck.
Enjoy.
LT3000
