Investors are constantly reminded that the markets are efficient and there is no use trying to beat the market as it cannot be done on a consistent basis. In fact, we are told that over 70% of the mutual funds fail to beat the market, presenting this as evidence to somehow imply, in some convoluted […]
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Checklist investing is a simple process with tremendous benefits. Checklists can protect you from yourself and propel you towards investment success. Atul Gawande is known for writing The Checklist Manifesto – a book where he describes how checklists protect us from our cognitive biases. In 2001, a doctor working at John Hopkins Hospital, Peter Provonost, wanted to
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Have you ever met an 11-year-old shareholder? That’s what Warren Buffett’s life was about at that age. At the tender age of eleven, the boy who would go on to become the Oracle of Omaha was already fiddling around in the stock market, having bought a few shares of Cities Service. Today, Buffett is one
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Small cap stocks generally have a liquidity problem. This is one of the reasons why most investors stay away from small cap stocks. This is also one of the reasons why good undervalued stocks are easier to find in this asset class. The market for highly liquid stocks is also normally highly efficient. The price
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Cyclical stocks tend to be reliable profit generators in a value investor’s portfolio. Cycles exaggerate the valuations because they cause uncertainty in the market. So arguably, value investing should work very well. In practice, it can be hard to identify the right investment candidates and pick the right time to invest. We all know that
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We had the first Yahoo Finance Community Meet-Up on Dec 12, 2025. Nathan Worden from Yahoo Finance hosted the discussion. I was joined with Marques Blank of Small Cap Newsroom and Sowmy VJ of Helix Research Ltd. We presented 3 stock theses during this discussion. These included GHC, OPXS and DG. It was a great
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The book Buffettology describes a screen that is similar to how Warren Buffett looks for stocks to buy. I have found this screen to be a good starting point and often offers stocks that we may otherwise miss from a stricter valuation oriented screen. Buffettology screen places a great deal of emphasis on the quality
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The Unlikely Alliance Threatening the AI Status Quo The recent news that Google sells TPU to Meta signals a fundamental shift in the AI hardware market. For years, the AI hardware market has been defined by two simple truths: NVIDIA is the undisputed king of silicon, and Google’s Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) were a strictly
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IntroductionYou want a portfolio that works for you every week, every month, and in every market climate. As a sophisticated investor, you understand that traditional strategies rely on price appreciation, which can vanish the moment markets turn against you. The income factory takes a different path. Rather than hoping your assets rise in value, you
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It has been difficult to share my working watchlist with my readers. I maintain it in Stock Rover but there is no possible way of sharing a link to my watchlist page. I could create a page on the website and add the watchlist table there. Periodically, I can update this table as needed. Seems
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