Actionable insights — Buying more LIB in the $0.60s
One paragraph, one transferable discipline: how to test whether a sell-off carries information before averaging down into it — and how to keep the risk statement honest while the position grows.
How to read this page: a one-paragraph buy note, so only one method is supported — the test he applies before averaging down, not anything about lithium. The boxed line shows how it played out here. (Written source — no video timestamps.)
1. Before averaging down, ask what the sell-off knows — and name the fear out loud so you can date it
The repeatable method
- Start from the drawdown, not the price. Ask the narrow question "what changed at the company?" — a missed milestone, a broken permit, a cost blowout, a departure, a financing on bad terms — before asking whether the stock is cheap. If nothing changed, the fall is flow or sentiment, and the position you already own is the same position.
- Force yourself to name the specific fear the sellers are acting on. A vague "risk-off" answer means you haven't found it; a nameable one ("further dilution — for capex, or the US uplisting") can be checked.
- Date the fear. Was it already in your thesis when you bought? An already-expected risk being re-priced is a price move without an information move, and that is the setup for adding. A newly-discovered risk being priced is the opposite — that is the setup for reassessing.
- Be honest about what the fear could still cost you even when it is "expected." A dilution risk you priced in is not a dilution risk you sized; when it lands, the terms — price, warrants, who buys — determine whether your per-share value survives. Expecting the raise is not the same as expecting that raise.
- Carry the risk statement forward verbatim as you average down. If the caveats in your second buy note read softer than the first, the extra size — not new evidence — is what moved them.
Here: LIB falls to the $0.60s from the C$0.80 Mart added at on
2026-JUL-13; he finds "no clear reason for this current sell-off beyond investors being afraid of further dilution … both of which were already expected," buys more, and repeats the July caveat unchanged — "again it's a pre-revenue company that is yet to bring their first facility online, so not without risk."
Watch for
- The first facility coming into production this year — the one dated, falsifiable milestone the whole add rests on; a slip past year-end is the thesis, not the tape, being wrong.
- The financing when it comes (capex and/or the US uplisting): its price and terms, since the "already expected" defence only holds if the raise lands on ordinary terms.
- The tell that the diagnosis was wrong: the "no clear reason" verdict followed by company news that supplies one — a delay, a cost revision, an insider exit — which means the market had information first.
Methods distilled from a Contrarian Codex Discord message (linked above) for personal study. Not investment advice. © Contrarian Codex / "Mart" for source material.