Ann: 2016 AGM Presentation, page-63

You need to understand EVERY aspect of investing, not just the fundamentals....I've yet to have a decent meal that only included meat and bread.

Yes, except trading volumes do not form part of the set of "investing aspects that need to be understood". Demonstrably this is the case.

By way of proof, here are a just a few examples of great "meals" (actually, not just great meals, but sensationally delectable meals) that were sensationally delectable irrespective of what their issued share capital has ever done:

ARB
ASX
AUB
AWS
AZJ
BRG
CBA
CSL
CYB
DLX
DTL
IFL
LYL
MND
MQG
NHF
REH
RHC
TCL
WES
WFD

Lots of simply delicious meals among that lot... all "prepared" with not even one consideration of vegetables volumes.

(And those are just the ones I've had the pleasure of owning over the years. There are umpteen more examples that I've been too dumb or too slow to acquire.)


WOW!
You really hate Stockbrokers, don't you?
Did one burn and churn you? Talk his book? Give poor advice?
Or even married one that led to a nasty divorce?(Plenty of them around)

Yes.
With a modicum of intensity. Little more than financial prostitutes, they are, in my eyes.

It's a personal distaste that has its genesis in my having had to consume their self-serving tripe for a large part of my working life.

As for them burning and churning me or giving me poor financial advice, given that almost from Day Dot in the job I was told by my boss to ignore everything they wrote, said or recommended, so the scope for me falling victim to their unbridled ineptitude was zero.

Stockbrokers and stockbroking analysts have little idea in what low esteem they are held by their institutional clients, the very clients which they so nauseatingly try to shmooze.
(Or maybe they do, but their self-respect is so low that they don't care, being willing to do anything for a trade. Like I said, financial prostitutes.)