<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-954958838870417022</id><updated>2009-02-20T22:33:17.903-08:00</updated><title type='text'>chvaluesearch</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://valuesearch.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954958838870417022/posts/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://valuesearch.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Thunder</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08610343093608345103</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>1</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-954958838870417022.post-3297050684773315899</id><published>2007-10-09T01:55:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-10-09T02:39:22.456-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Introduction</title><content type='html'>&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error2"&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia"&gt;Stockmarket&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia"&gt; has been of &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error2"&gt;&lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;interest&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; to me for a long time, &lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;have found time and money in the past two years to experiment with the same . It also &lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;took me &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error2"&gt;&lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;quiet&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; a bit of time for me to &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error2"&gt;&lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;identify&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; the kind of investor I am. &lt;?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia"&gt;As any beginner would started with, the idea was see if one can quickly multiply your investment from stock market but realisation came that the game is for the most seasoned &lt;span&gt;investor who could spend a considerable amount of time to the task and it was very difficult to believe that I will be a better informed investor ahead of the mass.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Tried to understand trading based on technical analysis studied quiet a few techniques Candle stick,  Elliot wave , Moving averages etc., little bit of back testing proved that even if you are successful,  after the cost the returns don’t justify the risk.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Realised that the road ahead will be value investing. Having had very little exposure to finance, balance sheet, P&amp;amp;L, cash flow and ratios had to spend a lot of time to understand the basic. Realised that even there I will never be a master, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia"&gt;&lt;span&gt;I needed a simpler tool that can guide to a value opportunity.  Continued my search till I landed on a model based on Buffet teaching. The difficulty was to get the data input for the model. It needed at least 7 years of data, continued my search for a source of data till I found one.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia"&gt;&lt;span&gt; I believe the model can guide you to a value opportunity, but whether will it give satisfactory results?  only time will tell, because the biggest challenge in Value investing is Patience&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/954958838870417022-3297050684773315899?l=valuesearch.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://valuesearch.blogspot.com/feeds/3297050684773315899/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=954958838870417022&amp;postID=3297050684773315899' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954958838870417022/posts/default/3297050684773315899'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954958838870417022/posts/default/3297050684773315899'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://valuesearch.blogspot.com/2007/10/introduction.html' title='Introduction'/><author><name>Thunder</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08610343093608345103</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='00304542956347699939'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry></feed>