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The best conditions for buying a stock are when it's unpopular, it's cheap, there's limited downside, it's relatively undiscovered, you understand the...
Tags: stock picking
A few of the questions you should ask yourself before buying a stock include: Do you understand the company's business? Is it run by management that...
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According to Charlie Munger, here are the essential considerations for successful investing: 1. Risk: measure it, avoid it if possible, have a...
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Money managers are usually reluctant to employ strategies that work great in the long run but are likely to include some periods of underperformance...
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Many people suffer from confirmation bias. That is, they seek out information that confirms their viewpoint. This is also true of most investors....
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The growth in hedge fund assets in recent years has been driven by the high profits of the fund managers, not by the filling of a genuine market need....
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When deciding which experts are worth listening to, don't focus on the pundits who sound the most persuasive, but rather the investors who have...
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Warren Buffett has said that Wall Street is a little like a movie theater that has a special rule where if you want to leave the theater you need to...
There are two ways to approach value investing. One is to look for situations in which a company is selling far below its intrinsic value, and buy it...
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When a company does a spinoff of one part of itself, both the parent and the spinoff both significantly outperform the market, on average, over the...
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