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Techni Trader
Techni Trader
Techni Trader
With the
the second richest man in the world (after buffetting away Warren
Buffett from
access it. And the investor must access it and, having accessed
it, he must,
managethe information.
beyond their actual share because they can and do move large
amounts of
period not dissimilar to Wall Street in the mid 1960s which Mr.
Harold Q.
“In the super heated economy of the late sixties there was an
illusion of endless prosperity. On Wall
Street the bulls were rampant. Private companies were going public at
arbitrary prices that generated
huge profits for the promoters. Mutual funds were plunging recklessly
into new untested issues.
with quixoticoptimism.”
fuelled by greed, buy high and then live to regret having done so.
Human
nature has not changed.
I’d like you to dwell for a moment on a thoughtby
Harold Masur. He says:
streets.”
to have stated: “It will fluctuate.” Some will rise while others will
fall. The aim
careful thought and deliberation. Hegel once said, “To those who
look upon
factors, especially the human factor, that are sometimes not logical and
cannot
be predicted.
The share must have value. Its fundamentals must be good. Its
management
“Even if, by some magic, you knew the future growth rate of the
little darling you just discovered, you
do not really know how the market will capitalize that growth.
Sometimes the market will pay twenty
This is why finance theory does not support the belief that the
fundamental
session.He said:
Benjamin Grahamadds:
lore.”
RAGHU PALAT
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