do any of you echo Soros, Gates and Buffett's trades

I completly agree that a trader could dominate me in total return in the same stock over a given amount of time, but in my little world and with my low risk approach I can only watch so much in any given trading session....To be completely honest I have recently just been watching sectors currently and when they show weakness I sell almost all of the stocks I have in that sector and when it shows strength I buy the few stocks in those sectors that I like.....Regardless of setups.....Tech back on 7/17 and 7/21 was golden....If you only knew how many tech positions I opened up around those days....

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I do not know how a short term trader could ignore long term bias...but i am new to this reality and learned that i have tried to paddle upstream far to much in my day's...

the marriage of investors and short term traders is on the horizon in the efficiency that the markets present and the shrinking range that automation brings...just my opinion though..


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I completly agree that a trader could dominate me in total return in the same stock over a given amount of time, but in my little world and with my low risk approach I can only watch so much in any given trading session....To be completely honest I have recently just been watching sectors currently and when they show weakness I sell almost all of the stocks I have in that sector and when it shows strength I buy the few stocks in those sectors that I like.....Regardless of setups.....Tech back on 7/17 and 7/21 was golden....If you only knew how many tech positions I opened up around those days....

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.....Regardless of setups.....Tech back on 7/17 and 7/21 was golden....If you only knew how many tech positions I opened up around those days....

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of course that looks great now, but back in July everything still looked like it was headed down...What if November 17th was the day to short tech when looking back on this week in Feb or Mar of 2007 saying selling then was a great thing to do....its very hard to pick these exact setups. Many are questioning where the top is, its really anyones guess.
 
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Don't forget to go to:

http://myway.brand.edgar-online.com/default.aspx

Type in your favorite fund and check out the 13f-hr

It's the holdings as of 9/30/2006, but they just had to file on 11/13....So the info could be useful and is not that old....

Also if you want to be SAVY you can pull up the 13f-hr from the last couple of filing's and compare to see what they are buying and what they are selling.....Now this takes some time and I always spend days working on this information....So by no means am I going to do it for you, but this is one of my favorite ways to get investing ideas from multiplle funds....Like I have said in my journal I always build the funds I like in Vector Vest and track them closely so I can capitalize on their better picks....

Just a few of results from the last Jeffery Gendell filing back in March and June.....AZZ, ENR (all ready sold this one), IOSP, PCR, TRA, MAG, GT, CF, GTI, ASTE, KOP, DCO.......Check the charts....

The point being is if you piggyback in the right stocks with the best players others will follow....Just watch for momentum (Increased Volume) off bottoms and ca-ching....

As you can see it can be extremely profitable....Or you could just throw darts like everyone else, but if you want to be an investor and go on vacations without having to worry you better know that you have some good institutional support on your larger holdings....

Man the tricks are out!!!! But this is what research and investing is all about...Not ticks and pennies, but double digit returns in a short amount of time....

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unfortunately, lots of times even the big boys get it wrong andy ou just end up following them off the cliff :D
 
Michael:

If you really do want to know more about true investors (as opposed to speculators) like Buffett, you should take the time to read Jason Zweigs new book, which is a revised edition of Benjamin Graham's "Intelligent Investor".

You may or may not know that Buffett was a student of Professor Graham in college, and also worked for Graham. If I remember correctly Graham gave Buffett his first job.

Here is a link that might help.

http://www.jasonzweig.com/book.html

Good luck,

Steve
 
Very useful. Thanks

Quote from $CostAverageMAN:

Don't forget to go to:

http://myway.brand.edgar-online.com/default.aspx

Type in your favorite fund and check out the 13f-hr

It's the holdings as of 9/30/2006, but they just had to file on 11/13....So the info could be useful and is not that old....

Also if you want to be SAVY you can pull up the 13f-hr from the last couple of filing's and compare to see what they are buying and what they are selling.....Now this takes some time and I always spend days working on this information....So by no means am I going to do it for you, but this is one of my favorite ways to get investing ideas from multiplle funds....Like I have said in my journal I always build the funds I like in Vector Vest and track them closely so I can capitalize on their better picks....

Just a few of results from the last Jeffery Gendell filing back in March and June.....AZZ, ENR (all ready sold this one), IOSP, PCR, TRA, MAG, GT, CF, GTI, ASTE, KOP, DCO.......Check the charts....

The point being is if you piggyback in the right stocks with the best players others will follow....Just watch for momentum (Increased Volume) off bottoms and ca-ching....

As you can see it can be extremely profitable....Or you could just throw darts like everyone else, but if you want to be an investor and go on vacations without having to worry you better know that you have some good institutional support on your larger holdings....

Man the tricks are out!!!! But this is what research and investing is all about...Not ticks and pennies, but double digit returns in a short amount of time....

$COSTAverageMAN
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thanks a lot for the reference to check 13f-hr reports. here's a link without popups.

http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml

now I've just quickly looked at these reports, but how do you like to use this information? They show existing positions, but how do you extrapolate future moves from this? furthermore, what specific funds do you like as far as management style is concerned?


Quote from $CostAverageMAN:

Don't forget to go to:

http://myway.brand.edgar-online.com/default.aspx

Type in your favorite fund and check out the 13f-hr

It's the holdings as of 9/30/2006, but they just had to file on 11/13....So the info could be useful and is not that old....

Also if you want to be SAVY you can pull up the 13f-hr from the last couple of filing's and compare to see what they are buying and what they are selling.....Now this takes some time and I always spend days working on this information....So by no means am I going to do it for you, but this is one of my favorite ways to get investing ideas from multiplle funds....Like I have said in my journal I always build the funds I like in Vector Vest and track them closely so I can capitalize on their better picks....

Just a few of results from the last Jeffery Gendell filing back in March and June.....AZZ, ENR (all ready sold this one), IOSP, PCR, TRA, MAG, GT, CF, GTI, ASTE, KOP, DCO.......Check the charts....

The point being is if you piggyback in the right stocks with the best players others will follow....Just watch for momentum (Increased Volume) off bottoms and ca-ching....

As you can see it can be extremely profitable....Or you could just throw darts like everyone else, but if you want to be an investor and go on vacations without having to worry you better know that you have some good institutional support on your larger holdings....

Man the tricks are out!!!! But this is what research and investing is all about...Not ticks and pennies, but double digit returns in a short amount of time....

$COSTAverageMAN
More...
 
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