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Have you ever wondered what separates David Dreman, Warren Buffett, Charlie Munger,etc.from the rest of the world? The answer is simple but the force behind it can make the difference between a great investor and an average investor. I am talking about investor psychology, also known as Behavior Finance.
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It is amazing what a volatile market can do. As I experience my first market correction of my short investing career, everything that I have read has prepared me in finding the bargains. The big financials are the obvious choices but finding a small well-run company is where the big money is made. I could [...]
If there’s one quote that would describe contrarian investing it would have to be the following:
Be fearful when others are greedy and be greedy when others are fearful-Warren Buffett
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Never in my life have I been around someone as controversial as my next interviewee. I met William (Billy) at an old site we both used to be active in. His investment style is similar to Warren Buffett’s in that they both make huge bets when the odds are in their favor. Although controversial, his [...]
The following five companies appeared using a minimum market capitalization of 256 million returning 100 stocks. All five companies have pretax earnings yield of at least 10% and high pretax return on capital.
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It has been a while since I done security analysis on stocks with a market cap this size. Currently Mr.Market is valuing Vineyard National Bancorp “Vineyard” at less than 100 million. The million dollar question is whether Vineyard warrants this type of valuation. As Buffett has quoted before “Price is what you pay, Value is [...]
Wow, What a way for Mr. Buffett to end the year with a couple of hits. First, Buffett purchases conglomerate
Marmon Holdings for $4.5 Billion. The size of the acquisition makes it a Buffett play all along. An easy way to find out who is doing the investments for Berkshire is looking at the size [...]