GLEN ARNOLD INVESTMENTS
  • About
  • Newsletter
  • Books
    • My Books
    • Other Books
  • Blog
  • Portfolio
    • Buffett-style
    • Modified price earnings ratio
    • Net Current Asset Value
  • Resources
    • glossary of investment terms >
      • A - B
      • C
      • D - E
      • F - G
      • H - I - J - K
      • L - M - N
      • O - P
      • Q - R
      • S
      • T - U - V - W - Y - Z
    • TOP 10 TIPS FOR INVESTORS

How the amatuer investor can win

2/12/2021

0 Comments

 
The amateur investor is free from any list of rules that make life so difficult for the professionals and he is able to buy into small and medium-sized firms offering the greatest percentage gains, rather than diversify into poorly understood shares.
He/she need only own a few shares; which permits time to understand an industry and look for exciting new developments; he/she doesn’t have to explain to a committee why or what he is buying or selling; he doesn’t have to compete with other investors or publish his results on a quarterly basis.
In Peter Lynch’s judgement the amateur who concentrates on the study of the companies in an industry he or she understands can  outperform 95 per cent of professional fund managers.  
The private investors’ edge comes from the knowledge they are able to accumulate about specific companies and industries.  They are able to observe great growth prospects long before the professional get to hear about them.
Investors can first encounter 10-baggers quite close to home. The average person comes across a good investing prospect two or three times a year just by being out and about.
Go shopping
Peter Lynch is a great believer in getting investment ideas directly from experience, and one of his favourite sources is the shopping centre near his home town.  Any amateur investor could easily do the same in their own patch – browse through scores retail/hospitality enterprises.
He thinks going through the Mall is a great form of fundamental analysis where the investor can see a long line of potential investments all neatly arranged side by side for the convenience of shoppers for equities.  This is a far more valuable way of spending time than attending investment conferences.
Search far and………………To read more subscribe to my premium newsletter Deep Value Shares – click here http://newsletters.advfn.com/deepvalueshares/subscribe-1
0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Picture

    Prof. Glen Arnold

    I'm a full-time investor running my portfolio from peaceful Leicestershire countryside. I also happen to be UK´s best selling investment book author and a Financial Times Best selling author.

    Originally, I wrote all my ideas out in full on this website. Now that ADVFN publish them they are entitled to display the full version for six months – you can see them here. Thus can I only post the first few paragraphs here for anything younger than six months.

    I write 2 to 3 newsletters per week - investing is about making the right decisions, not many decisions.

    Categories

    All
    Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:BRK.A)
    Caffyns
    Capital And Counties
    Character Group
    Charlie Munger
    Connect Group
    Daejan-lsedjan
    Dewhurst-lsedwhta
    Highcroft
    Investment-ideas
    Investment Philosophy
    John Templeton
    J Smart
    McCarthy And Stone
    MS International
    Orchard Funding
    Samuel Heath
    Tandem
    TClarke (LSE:CTO)
    Town Centre Securities
    Wynnstay

    Archives

    December 2021
    November 2021
    October 2021
    September 2021
    August 2021
    July 2021
    June 2021
    May 2021
    April 2021
    March 2021
    February 2021
    January 2021
    December 2020
    November 2020
    October 2020
    September 2020
    August 2020
    July 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020

    RSS Feed

In the short-run, the market is a voting machine – reflecting a voter-registration test that requires only money, not intelligence or emotional stability – but in the long-run, the market is a weighing machine.  Benjamin Graham




  • About
  • Newsletter
  • Books
    • My Books
    • Other Books
  • Blog
  • Portfolio
    • Buffett-style
    • Modified price earnings ratio
    • Net Current Asset Value
  • Resources
    • glossary of investment terms >
      • A - B
      • C
      • D - E
      • F - G
      • H - I - J - K
      • L - M - N
      • O - P
      • Q - R
      • S
      • T - U - V - W - Y - Z
    • TOP 10 TIPS FOR INVESTORS