(12-04-2014, 04:17 PM)scottleey Wrote: [ -> ]Hi guys,
Just read a pretty instructive article given the past 5 years of good gains.
http://brooklyninvestor.blogspot.co.uk/2...rship.html
Pretty good in terms of thinking during bubbly periods and the kind of investments and capital commitment buffett made.
Mark CancellieriMarch 24, 2014 at 12:47 PM
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{Buffett is no market timer. He looks at valuations. That much is obvious. He always gives his viewpoints of the *valuation* of securities and markets, and he never makes predictions about *when* the market will change. He doesn't have to, because if he is right about the valuation, then it will lead to a good investment return regardless of whether he gets the timing right. However, when the market gets really out of whack, it *appears* as if he is timing the market because severe over- or under-valuations are not a stable situation.}
As Buffett once wrote:
“We try to *price*, rather than *time*, purchases. In our view, it is folly to forego buying shares in an outstanding business whose long-term future is predictable, because of short-term worries about an economy or a stock market that we know to be unpredictable. Why scrap an informed decision because of an uninformed guess?
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Very interesting. i have found a new angle looking at "Market Timing". Which in a way is not Market Timing at all according to WB. Actually i think i have been practising this without realising it. Though nothing near the GREAT WB. There is really no end to learning.
(12-04-2014, 04:17 PM)scottleey Wrote: [ -> ]Hi guys,
Just read a pretty instructive article given the past 5 years of good gains.
http://brooklyninvestor.blogspot.co.uk/2...rship.html
Pretty good in terms of thinking during bubbly periods and the kind of investments and capital commitment buffett made.
Thanks, it was a good insight on Buffett's thinking through his letters.