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Tan KW
Publish date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013, 10:51 PM
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What Kills the Amateurs


Nothing is more fatal to amateur investors than thinking that a stock trading near a 52-week low is a good buy. They based this logic on the notion "what goes down must eventually comes up".

Suppose we have 2 companies
i. Co. A had recently gone down from $5 to $1. 
ii Co. B had recently gone up from $1 to $5.

Believe it or not, all things being equal, a majority of amateur investors will choose Co.A because they believe that it will eventually make it back up to those levels again. On the other hand amateur investors will think that chasing after Co.B is almost suicidal because the music will end soon. 

The point is that the stock price is a reflection of the company. If a great firm is run by excellent managers, there is no reason the stock won't keep on going up, vice versa.

Therefore dun said the falling knives killed you when actually you have performed hara-kiri yourselves.



Ref:
http://www.investlah.com/forum/index.php/topic,49773.msg972601.html#msg972601
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PureBULL .

THIS IS THE BEST OF THE BEST PIECE EVER PRESENTED BY DEAR TAN KW. Not the topic. It's in the content ex.

2013-06-19 04:04

Buy & Sell Sell & Buy

Best advice for every1

2013-06-19 05:45

lwalk

nice one

2013-06-19 10:03

Frank Soweto

the company A sounds like the General one though it was more like from $8 to .50 cents :(

2013-06-20 00:34

Jyen

I am a living example of company A, from 4.25 to 0.49. It seems too far fetch to go back up. LOL.

2013-07-13 14:44

Micheal Teo

Hi....jyen fyi this share PWE now Pansar during 1995 superbull run touched a hit of rm144 now 52 cents. Ur is just a tiny drop into Atlantic Ocean.

2013-07-13 15:11

kcchongnz

Newbies hoping to make a kill in the stock market by listening to rumours and waiting for big boys to goreng up the share price (for Newbies benefits) should listen, listen and listen to Jyen and Michael Teo.

There were scores Of PWE in the second board in the mid 1990s. There are still heaps of them around now, though their share prices are not as high as that time of irrational exuberance.

2013-07-13 15:51

Jyen

Michael Teo, now I know how those people lost at least a few million or a few bungalows during the financial crisis. But the tiny drop is an ocean to me:(

2013-07-13 22:07

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