Monday 5 March 2012

Is Mr. Market still around? Is he still bipolar? You bet he is.


 M  R .   M A R  K  E T

Most of the time, the market is mostly accurate in pricing most stocks.  Millions of buyers and sellers haggling over price do a remarkably good job of valuing companies—on average. But sometimes, the price is not right; occasionally, it is very wrong indeed. And at such times, you need to understand Graham’s image of Mr. Market, probably the most brilliant metaphor ever created for explaining how stocks can become mispriced.

The manic-depressive Mr. Market does not always price stocks the way an appraiser or a private buyer would value a business. Instead, when stocks are going up, he happily pays more than their objective value; and, when they are going down, he is desperate to dump them for less than their true worth.  Is Mr. Market still around? Is he still bipolar? You bet he is

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