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This wiki is an investing research notebook one investor built from their own research notes. Drop scattered notes — company analyses, principles, the reasoning behind each trade — and Cairni organizes them into per-company analyses and a principles page, tracing every claim back to the source. The factual basis traces to a single source, Investing Notes.md. Investing Notes.md
This wiki is an illustrative example of structure, not investment advice or a recommendation to buy or sell any security. All analysis is a compiled set of one investor's research notes.
How this notebook is structured
Investing Principles & Checklist is the parent page every holding is judged against. Below it, holdings branch into analysis pages: NVIDIA for growth, Coca-Cola for dividend & defense. The contrasting approaches they represent are compared in Growth vs. Dividend. Investing Notes.md
Watchlist at a glance
Decision journal
In investing, the most valuable record is not *what* you bought but why you judged it that way. When outcomes arrive later, you can check them against the assumptions you held — that's how you stop repeating mistakes. Cairni pins that "why" with its source. Investing Notes.md
- 2025-02Added to NVIDIA — judged AI accelerator demand a structural shift in computing, not a passing boom. Assumption: data-center capex lasts 2-3 years.Investing Notes.md
- 2025-06Opened Coca-Cola — needed a defensive, dividend anchor to lower portfolio volatility. Assumption: dividend-growth record holds.Investing Notes.md
- 2025-09Passed on chasing a high-valuation growth name — valuation exceeded the checklist ceiling.Investing Notes.md
Navigating this notebook
- 1.Investing Notes.md — the source every analysis starts from.
- 2.Investing Principles & Checklist — what a candidate must pass before buying.
- 3.NVIDIA — how to analyze a growth stock.
- 4.Coca-Cola — how to analyze a dividend stock.
- 5.Growth vs. Dividend — when and how to blend the two.