Still remember the GameStop saga? Some investors successfully rode the trend and reaped considerable profits out of it, while others experienced significant losses. Are the details of the incident still vivid in your memory?
Do you like meme stocks? Why?
$AMC Entertainment (AMC.US)$ $GameStop (GME.US)$ $BlackBerry (BB.US)$

Dear mooers,
We are coming to the end of a very unusual year full of uncertainty. Whether good or bad, we all witnessed the history.
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A good company can continuously use incremental capital to obtain a high rate of return in an extended period. On the contrary, a bad company will require a continuous large amount of capital investment but has a low rate of return. How to judge the subsequent rate of return of the purchasing company?
Buffett said that 2 points are essential:
1. Buy the company that you know
It can predict future cash flow, do the right thing in the ability circle, and avoid major mistakes.
2. Ensure sufficient margin of safety
Good companies that meet the conditions must be bought in heavy positions because few good companies exist. $Berkshire Hathaway-A (BRK.A.US)$  $Berkshire Hathaway-B (BRK.B.US)$ 
The industries and companies that Buffett likes almost certainly still have a competitive advantage in the next 10 or 20 years, and the environment is unlikely to undergo significant changes. $AMC Entertainment (AMC.US)$ 
For example, for a blue-chip such as  $Apple (AAPL.US)$ , if you take a stop loss and do a long-term trend in a large cycle, it will not be stopped until now. From the end of 2008 to now, it has been a trend of rising lows. Even the market with four circuit breakers at the beginning of 2020 not stop. This is the so-called large-period broad stop loss and does not hinder long-term investment.
There is also a survivor's in addition to non-stop loss and payback. Sometimes you see a trader using a specific high-risk method and earning wealthy profits in a year, and the profit margin far exceeds Buffett.
Is it possible? 
Of course possible;
Can it be replicated? 
It may not be possible;
Can it last? 
Of course not;
Otherwise, the top master in the market would not be Buffett.
Don't be messed up by all sorts of large profit orders and information pushes of various stocks. Under the iceberg, more large loss orders unreleased. If you always maintain fully leveraged transactions and do not protect the profits you have already made, you will soon return to the market in most cases. $NVIDIA (NVDA.US)$  $Lucid Group (LCID.US)$  $NIO Inc (NIO.US)$ 
Trading requires a high degree of self-discipline, persistence, and hard work. It's not that you make money in trading; it's that you have to do these to make money.

Musk — who was named Time's Person of the Year this week — spoke about Bezos during an interview with the Financial Times published on Wednesday.
Musk said in the interview that while his fellow billionaire has "reasonably good engineering aptitude," he feels Bezos "does not seem to be willing to spend mental energy getting into the details of engineering."
"[He] does take himself a bit too seriously," he added of Bezos. "In some ways, I'm trying to goad him into spending more time at Blue Origin so they make more progress. As a friend of mine says, he should spend more time at Blue Origin and less time in the hot tub."
Musk's comments are just the latest in a 15-year feud between the two centibillionaires, which has intensified amid a growing rivalry between their rocket companies, SpaceX and Blue Origin. "Turns out Besos [sic] retired in order to pursue a full-time job filing lawsuits against SpaceX," Musk tweeted in August. Bezos as Amazon CEO in July.
Musk has repeatedly and publicly called Bezos a "copycat" — once after Amazon announced its plan to launch internet-beaming satellites, and again when Amazon acquired self-driving-taxi company Zoox.
While Bezos has stopped short of calling out Musk directly, he has taken aim at Musk's biggest ambition: colonizing Mars, the main goal of SpaceX. Bezos' focus is on getting humans to the moon, and he's described the idea of reaching Mars as "un-motivating." "Go live on the top of Mount Everest for a year first and see if you like it, because it's a garden paradise compared to Mars," Bezos said in 2019.
Musk may lead the most valuable carmaker on the planet but he doesn't act like it in the traditional sense. Unlike top executives as other firms, Musk regularly tweets out memes, juvenile jokes, and the occasional company update to his 66.5 million followers. He frequently engages with fans online and gets into spats with critics.
Bezos' public image, by comparison, is highly curated. He has3 million followers on Twitter and isn't prone to the same unfiltered musings and casual banter as Musk.
Mooers, do you like Musk more or Bezos? Prefer Mars more or the moon?
$Amazon (AMZN.US)$ $Tesla (TSLA.US)$
Source: Business Insider, People

$Marin Software (MRIN.US)$ 4.35-4.5 I will buy up

$Apple (AAPL.US)$ $Microsoft (MSFT.US)$ $NVIDIA (NVDA.US)$ The metasverse market is likely to be very large, with a combined estimated annual operation of $2,000bn. Apple's years of investment in consumer hardware, consumer love for the brand, and expertise in nearby areas are likely to pay off in the metacverse in some way. FAANG stocks as well as Microsoft and Nvidia could also benefit.

$Meta Platforms (FB.US)$ $Microsoft (MSFT.US)$ $Apple (AAPL.US)$ The dream of the metaverse is beautiful. However, users must wear virtual reality headsets or glasses to do this. Bill Gates acknowledged the need for expensive technology, like VR headsets and even motion-capture gloves, in order to accurately capture expressions, body language and voice quality. So what do you think? Are you all looking forward to the metaverse?

$Apple (AAPL.US)$ Of course, Apple rushed up!

$Apple (AAPL.US)$ Apple sees its car-building plans hit again by executive departures. Apple's self-driving car project recently lost three key technicians in recent weeks. The spate of executive departures shows the challenges Apple faces in the driverless space. While self-driving cars have great potential, and Apple sees them as key to the company's future, perfecting the technology has baffled Apple engineers for years.

$Apple (AAPL.US)$ Go Apple, you're the best