Do Your Research

This is an episode that we dissect the anatomy of a long-term investment using Stamps.com's case study. Most long-term investments share a few characteristics. Some are logical, and some are counter-intuitive. But, knowing what's common among the companies worthy of a spot in your long-term portfolio will help you avoid panic-selling when the stock market and the companies in your portfolio experience a price-fall. Talking about a stock price-fall, Stamps.com is such a company.

In this episode, we again have the pleasure of hosting Jeffrey Leichenger whom you may remember from the earlier episodes. We also appreciate Scott M. Wright, who is a long-time Stamps.com's customer and we found him on the company's Facebook page. He agreed to share his experience with Stamps.com's products and services. We also used the public video interview with Stamps.com's employee, Carlos, on the company's YouTube channel. Here is a detail list of the sources we used to produce this episode: 

• Stamps.com's YouTube channel


• Wikipedia's Stamp.com's page


• Interview with Carlos, one of Stamps.com's customer care agents


• the fan YouTube channel


• Stamps.com's Q3 Quarterly Earnings call from the company's investor relations page


• Interview with Warren Buffet on CNBC's YouTube Channel


• All Soundbite are downloaded from Freesound.org

This episode of Renegade Investors podcast is our Halloween edition. It's the day after the Halloween, and we put together a spooky episode with the help of our guest, Jeffrey Leichenger. He is one of the moderators of our Intelligent Stock Market Investors Facebook Group, and he shares the story of the dark side of trading commission-free with apps such as Robinhood. As usual, there are several aha moments in the conversation with Jeffrey that you don't want to miss. Hearing the real investing stories of fellow stock market investors helps all of us avoid mistakes and stay on course. If you are wondering, I've also played the Buy/Sell/Hold game with Jeffrey. Don't miss out! 

P.S., Apologies to Jeffrey for talking about his hobby of fantasy hockey at around minute 4:20 of the show, but calling it fantasy football. Not sure what my Canadian friends and family have to say about that! A Canadian mixing up hockey and football! Shame on me! ;)

The introduction to Robinhood and the conversation with Robinhood's co-founder is sourced from CNBC's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwpQpFqzoAE

This episode of Renegade Investors podcast is a part of our 2018 Top 30 Successful Investors series. We are featuring a guest renegade investor who is going against the prevailing wisdom of investing in his unique way. Nitin Pachisia is a professional investor, a venture capitalist, and an investor with investments across a broad spectrum of assets. As a founding partner, his work at Unshackled Ventures is admirable. His venture fund invests in early-stage immigrant founders, and his depth of knowledge and insights into how to become a successful investor is one of a kind. There are several aha moments in the conversation with Nitin that you should not miss a single second of this episode of Renegade Investors podcast. Happy listening!