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Showing posts with label The Intelligent Investor: The Investor and Market Fluctuations. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Intelligent Investor: The Investor and Market Fluctuations. Show all posts
Wednesday, 3 December 2025

Market share price volatility and relationship to your buying price. How long after holding can you expect the market share price to be ALWAYS ABOVE your buying price, using various assumptions.

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  It is not uncommon to see a share price of a stock rises 50% and falls its equivalent 1/3rd in a year (52 weeks period).    Assuming, you ...
Monday, 8 May 2017

A sound mental approach towards stock fluctuations (1)

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Intelligent investment is more a matter of  mental approach  than it is of technique. A  sound mental approach towards stock fluctuati...
Monday, 19 January 2015

Judged by past history, you always had a chance to buy them back at substantially lower levels at some time later.

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Another encouraging element for the preceptor is found in the strong warp of continuity that seems to underlie the pattern of financial chan...
Sunday, 4 January 2015

Either you ignore market fluctuations or you buy and sell based on value.

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It is people generally who make high and low markets, because they are optimistic (and greedy) in high markets and pessimistic (and disguste...

The case of the market declines and unsuccessful stock investments.

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There is a vital difference here between temporary and permanent influences. A price decline is of no real importance to the bona fide i...

Price Changes as Measuring Investment Results

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When the general market declines or advances substantially .... .... nearly all investors will have somewhat similar changes in their portf...
Friday, 26 July 2013

Market Fluctuations and Your Emotions

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The stock market can fluctuate widely.  Prices of stocks are determined by various factors.  It is better for you to focus on the fundamenta...
Thursday, 25 October 2012

Using Market Fluctuations as a guide to making Investment Decisions*

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Graham, Chapter 8: In chapter eight of Graham's book, he brings up the subject of market fluctuation. I think he makes an important ...
Wednesday, 15 August 2012

Why I am interested in stocks?

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Stock prices fluctuated wildly while the underlying value of the business was far more stable.   To be a successful investor you ne...
Thursday, 12 July 2012

Any price - and therefore P/E - movements that is not related to the company's earnings is transient.

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The stock market is governed by a diverse set of influences.  And just as the sea is, it is predictable over the long term but not over the...
Saturday, 12 May 2012

Benjamin Graham on Market Behavior

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In  Security Analysis , Benjamin Graham emphasizes the importance of not only focusing on a firm’s potential and accounting statements,...
Sunday, 4 March 2012

Good managements produce a good average market price, and bad managements produce bad market prices.

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Market Price Fluctuations:  An Added Consideration Something should be said about the significance of average market prices as a measure ...
Tuesday, 18 January 2011

Market Behaviour: Crowd Behaviour IMPACTS Stock Prices

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As a value investor, it is important to think for yourself and not follow the crowd.  But it is still important to understand market crowd ...
Friday, 6 August 2010

Famous Mr. Market Parable

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Stocks will fluctuate substantially in value. For a true investor, the only significant meaning of price fluctuations is that they offer  ...
Tuesday, 28 July 2009

Business Valuations versus Stock-Market Valuations: Summary

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The most realistic distinction between the investor and the speculator is found in their attitude toward stock-market movements. The specula...
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Business Valuations versus Stock-Market Valuations: The True Investor

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The true investor is in a special position when he owns a listed common stock. He can take advantage of the daily market price or leave it a...

Business Valuations versus Stock-Market Valuations: Critics of the value approach to stock investment

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Critics of the value approach to stock investment argue that listed common stocks cannot properly be regarded or appraised in the same way a...

In these 113 words Graham sums up his lifetime of experience

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Let us return to our comparison between the holder of marketable shares and the man with an interest in a private business. We have said tha...

Business Valuations versus Stock-Market Valuations: The A & P Example

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The A. & P. Example. This was one of Graham's original examples, which dates back many years but which has a certain fascination bec...

Business Valuations versus Stock-Market Valuations

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The impact of market fluctuations upon the investor's true situation may be considered also from the standpoint of the shareholder as th...