My philosophy is not to follow Warren Buffett into BAC, but rather to invest with the principles that made value conscious investors like Buffett successful.
Can buying stocks that have performed well and selling stocks that have performed poorly help generate significant returns?
The stock has had a great run in 2011, but the price action and underlying supply/demand picture in GMCR was raising some concern.
In the emerging Trusted Computing sector, WAVX can write major contracts before the competition starts breathing down their necks.
We could see rallies similar to October 1982 or October 1974 if the current pessimistic view proves to be unjustified after corporations turn in their Q3 report cards.
We continue to receive distributions, regardless of the stock price, and when a rebound does occur, we expect a stronger positive response from our individual holdings than from the index itself.
For investors not in the market yet, I believe this provides an opportunity to enter at more compelling prices.
Oliver Keating, who runs the Small Cap Quant model on Covestor, discusses how he came to build his computer-driven strategy for selecting stocks.