Stop Listening to Wall Street: 13 Signs You’ve Found the Perfect Stock
[Book Review] Where the Legend of the "Ten-Bagger" Began: A Deep Dive into Peter Lynch’s One Up on Wall Street "Investing is an art, not a science, and people who’ve been trained to rigidly quantify everything have a huge disadvantage. If you have fifth-grade math skills, you can beat the pros." This book is the bible for the individual investor. It proves that the weapon needed to beat the giants of Wall Street isn't complex financial engineering, but rather the common sense and observation skills we use every day. Here is the A to Z of stock picking, as proposed by the legendary Peter Lynch. (The 6 Categories of Stocks + The 13 Traits of the Perfect Stock) 1. The Amateur’s Edge: The Weapon You Already Possess Professional fund managers are shackled by restrictions. They can’t buy companies with small market caps, and they are forced to buy "safe" stocks (like IBM used to be) just to avoid criticism if things go wrong. But individual investors? We h...