Tag: Stocks
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Philip Fisher’s Common Stock Search
Warren Buffett credits Charlie Munger and Philip Fisher for guiding him away from investing in companies selling below book value and towards quality companies that grow slowly over time. Fisher describes the things he looks for in common stocks in his book Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits. Below is the list of 15 points to…
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How Peter Lynch One-Upped Wall Street
Peter Lynch was one of the most successful stock pickers of the 20thCentury. From 1977 to 1990, his Magellan Fund had an average return of29%. Just let that soak in for a minute: each $1 put into the fund in 1977 would have grown to over $27 by 1990! In his book, One Up On Wall…
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Options Trading Not a Star Strategy
The general public has become more familiar with options trading thanks to Keith Gill’s trading in GameStop (GME), which made him millions of dollars in a relatively short amount of time using the market equivalent of lottery tickets. While options can generate outsized returns, they can also lead to wealth destruction. Options can be thought…