Showing posts with label BGFN. Show all posts
Showing posts with label BGFN. Show all posts

Friday 2 April 2010

Thursday 15 October 2009

"SALE! 50% OFF!"

Stocks are crashing, so you turn on the television to catch the latest market news.

"Falling stock prices would be fabulous news for any investor with a very long horizon."

"You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet."

It is to be expected that the price of a stock can goes down by a third and can goes up by a half, even in normal market situations.


In fact, when the market is being sold down, the long term value investor gets excited and enthused.

The risk is not in the price volatility.

•The risk is in oneself, reacting "stupidly" to price fluctuations.

•The other risk of course is making a wrong assessment of the future earnings and future earnings growth of the business of the company you bought.


http://myinvestingnotes.blogspot.com/2009/07/news-you-could-use.html

Investment Owner's Contract
http://myinvestingnotes.blogspot.com/2009/07/investment-owners.html

Market Price Fluctuations
http://myinvestingnotes.blogspot.com/2009/07/52w-hg-1.html

Saturday 1 August 2009

News you could use

Stocks are crashing, so you turn on the television to catch the latest market news. But instead of CNBC or CNN, imagine that you can tune in to the Benjamin Graham Financial Network. On BGFN, the audio doesn't capture that famous sour clang of the market's closing bell; the video doesn't home in on brokers scurrying across the floor of the stock exchange like angry rodents. Nor does BGRN run any footage of investors gasping on frozen sidewalks as red arrows whiz overhead on electronic stock tickers.

Instead, the image that fills your TV screen is the facade of the New York Stock Exchange, festooned with a huge banner reading: "SALE! 50% OFF!" As intro music, Bachman-Turner Ovrdrive can be heard blaring a few bars of their old barn-burner, "You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet." Then the anchorman announces brightly, "Stocks became more atractive yet again today, as the Dow dropped another 2.5% on heavy volume - the fourth day in a row that stocks have gotten cheaper. Tech investors fared even better, as leading companies like Microsoft lost nearly 5% on the day, making them even more affordable. That comes on top of the good news of the past year, in which stocks have already lost 50%, putting them at bargain levels not seen in years. And some prominent analysts are optimistic that prices may drop still further in the weeks and months to come."

The newscast cuts over to market strategist Ignatz Anderson of the Wall Street firm of Ketchum & Skinner, who says, "My forecast is for stocks to lose another 15% by June. I'm cautiously optimistic that if everything goes well, stocks could lose 25%, maybe more."

"Let's hope Ignatz Anderson is right," the anchor says cheerily. "Falling stock prices would be fabulous news for any investor with a very long horizon. And now over to Wally Wood for our exclusive AccuWeather forecast."


Ref: Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham