Market (In)Efficiency and beating the market
Behavioral inefficiencies are likely the most enduring because human nature has not changed much over time and is unlikely to change much in the future.
Behavioral inefficiencies are likely the most enduring because human nature has not changed much over time and is unlikely to change much in the future.
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By timing we mean the endeavor to anticipate the action of the stock market – to buy or hold when the future course is deemed to be upward, to sell or refrain from buying when the course is downward. By pricing we mean the endeavor to buy stocks when they are quoted below their fair value and to sell them when they rise above such value.
Now we are looking for good companies, not just cheap companies.
Management that unfailingly thinks and behaves like an owner of the business and has the courage and candor to discuss failures openly in reports to shareholders.
And if a person sets out to make profits from security purchases and sales, he is embarking on a business venture of his own, which must be run in accordance with accepted business principles if it is to have a chance of success.
A careful selection of a few investments (or a few types of investment) having regard to their cheapness in relation to their probable actual and potential intrinsic value over a period of years ahead and in relation to alternative investments at the time.
It is difficult to accept uncertainty. It is tempting to try and escape it by kidding ourselves and each other, but that is liable to land us in greater difficulties.
We must be content with hunches and alternative scenarios instead of determinate predictions
He will risk half his fortune in the stock market with less reflection than he devoted to the selection of a medium-price automobile
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