Hey all. I found this forum from a link in "The Dividend Guy" blog, which you may have guessed, focuses on ideas for dividend based investing. I started buying stocks in 2003 but discovered Benjamin Graham around 2006 and since then have made incredible advances in my ability to choose good investments. I originally started a Sharebuilder account way back in 2003 with just $5, and it's now worth 2,000 times that much.
I'm carving out a niche for myself using Graham techniques. The largest holdings in my portfolio are very high quality companies like the kind Warren Buffett likes, but I've also carved out a niche in recognizing companies that are only so-so and are on the edge of improving how they do things, are selling well below their potential, and then I sell them when things are back to normal. I call it "Equilibrium Investing", and it's based on the economic idea of price elasticity. I believe that substitutes for profitable companies are not readily available in the market and so they are the preferred purchase of Intelligent Investors.
Because I love doing it so much, I've changed my college major from electronics to finance and I want to specialize in analyzing financial reports. Each year I order a great big box of reports from Yahoo! Finance and go hunting for the best values. I made 16 big investments over the last two years and every single one has been profitable. I know it won't last forever, but I think I'm off to a tremendous start based on the averages. Here's hoping.
I'm carving out a niche for myself using Graham techniques. The largest holdings in my portfolio are very high quality companies like the kind Warren Buffett likes, but I've also carved out a niche in recognizing companies that are only so-so and are on the edge of improving how they do things, are selling well below their potential, and then I sell them when things are back to normal. I call it "Equilibrium Investing", and it's based on the economic idea of price elasticity. I believe that substitutes for profitable companies are not readily available in the market and so they are the preferred purchase of Intelligent Investors.
Because I love doing it so much, I've changed my college major from electronics to finance and I want to specialize in analyzing financial reports. Each year I order a great big box of reports from Yahoo! Finance and go hunting for the best values. I made 16 big investments over the last two years and every single one has been profitable. I know it won't last forever, but I think I'm off to a tremendous start based on the averages. Here's hoping.