Why shorting is no good

Shorting is a common technique on Wall Street as investors try to profit from both the rise and falls of a particular stock, but one thing I never really understood is why short in the first place.
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4 David Dreman Quotes

Without a doubt Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger have provided some of the most memorable quotes in the investing arena. Not too far behind the dynamic duo are the late John Templeton and the contrarian maestro himself David Dreman. Below are four memorable quotes David Dreman has enlightened the world with.
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Investing In A Volatile Market

So what does one do in a volatile market like we have seen lately? Absolutely nothing. After buying shares of a new company each day last week, I am sitting around doing nothing. I am spending my time re-reading the
contrarian investing bible and reading the usual blogs and websites.
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Value Investors Continue To Struggle In Choppy Market

A recent Wall Street Journal article properly named
Value Hunting’s Sharpshooters Hurt As Financial Stocks Hurt Mutual Fund highlighted how some very well known value investors have struggled as financial stocks tumble. It’s not a secret that contrarian-value investors are usually early to the part and are among the first to leave. The trouble comes [...]

Tracking David Dreman

One of my favorite things to do is follow the Gurus (Buffett,Greenblatt,etc). With the internet around, it is now easier than ever to see which stocks they are buying.
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Welcome to Value Investing: Finding Your Style

For those people who have not heard of
Fast Money, it is a show that brings 5 of Wall Street’s “top” traders and summarizes the day’s action and how to trade the next day. Full of charts,options and interviews with million dollar CEO’s, the show is pretty entertaining. No value investor would touch some [...]

4 Underrated Value Investing Books

A quick search on Amazon.com for the term “
Value Investing” turned up 2,970 books. At the top of the list, the usual suspects appear:

Value Investing: From Graham to Buffett and Beyond- Bruce Greenwald
The Little Book Of Value Investing-Christopher Browne
The Intelligent Investor- Benjamin Graham

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3 Steps To Better Returns

Below is a list of simple steps one can take to increase investment results. The list is not the holy grail of “How to beat the market”, but I feel it should help avoid major blowups in a portfolio.
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The Secret To Value Investing

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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Philosophy

Investment philosophy consists of a mixture of financial gurus who have one goal in mind when purchasing securities:finding undervalued securities.
David Dreman-

Invest in undervalued companies that exhibit strong fundamentals, above-market dividend yields and historic earnings growth, which analysis indicates will persist.
Own strong,fundamentally sound companies and to avoid speculative stocks or potential bankruptcies.
Markets are not perfectly efficient [...]