February 08, 2015

Investing in the apocalypse

Investing in the apocalypse

book by: James Altucher, Douglas Sease

3 principles of apocalypse investing -

  • Fade the fear - buy the fallen index when others are selling in panic; works for stocks too, but when drop by more than 10%
  • back door investing- buy large cap strong companies involved in solving the problem, best when crisis will end quickly
  • front door investing -buy speculative companies specifically involved in solving the problem, suitable for long-term, slowly developing crisis


E.g. pandemic
fade the fear - buy the falling markets
back-door - companies with involvement in vaccines e.g. GSK, PFE
front-door - companies focusing on specific vaccines e.g. BCRX

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