Way IX

Contrarian investing

This way is for sophisticated investors, both visionaries and analysts (type 1 or 2 personalities).

Buy low and sell high

Most people would agree that stock market investing is all about buying low and selling high, but on its own this doesn’t tell us much. The difficulty is, of course, in deciding whether the price at which you are buying will seem low compared with the price at some point in the future, which you will know only then. We would all love to be able to predict the future, but nobody can do it ...

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