I’m currently analysing a company that is looking a good prospect for my Net current asset value portfolio (share price less than the total of net current assets minus all liabilities). I’ll write it up, and post later this week or next week. In the meantime, here are some more ideas to guide our thoughts in these troubled times – (and don’t think the turbulence is over yet):
[Price fluctuations] provide [the investor] with an opportunity to buy wisely when prices fall sharply and to sell wisely when they advance a great deal. At other times he will do better if he forgets about the stock market and pays attention to his dividend returns and to the operation result of his companies
Benjamin Graham
We devote our attention to attractive purchases, not to the possibility of attractive sales. Warren Buffett (BH 1985)
In certain years you’ll make your 30 percent, but there will be other years when you’ll only make 2 percent, or perhaps you’ll lose 20 That’s part of the scheme of things, and you have to accept it….If you expect to make 30 percent year after year, you’re more likely to get frustrated at stocks for defying you, and your impatience may cause you to abandon your investments at precisely the wrong moment. Or worse, you may take unnecessary risks in the pursuit of illusory payoffs. It’s only by sticking to a strategy through good and bad years that you’ll maximize your long-term gains
Peter Lynch
Yearly figures [of portfolio performance], it should be noted, are n
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