DEEP RESEARCH · INVESTMENT PHILOSOPHY
You Cannot Capture Every Opportunity
A short investment memo on separating discipline from greed.
0. Bottom line first
I am recording what my teacher said. You cannot capture every opportunity. Trying to capture every opportunity is greed, and it can become the fastest path to damaging the account.
1. Source memo
Official fact: The source is a short investment-philosophy memo written to remember the teacher's words.
The desire to catch every opportunity becomes risk, not opportunity. In any market, chasing even the opportunities I cannot handle weakens both position sizing and judgment.
2. Principle I will keep
Missing out is also investing
Choosing not to participate can be an account-preserving decision.
Chasing every opportunity
Once I rush in without criteria, it becomes greed and loss control becomes harder.
Account survival
The ability to keep investing matters more than any single opportunity.