{"id":9461,"date":"2014-05-23T17:53:18","date_gmt":"2014-05-23T12:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.moneyworks4me.com\/investmentshastra\/?p=9461"},"modified":"2024-07-08T11:33:23","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T06:03:23","slug":"beat-the-market-buy-low-sell-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moneyworks4me.com\/investmentshastra\/beat-the-market-buy-low-sell-high\/","title":{"rendered":"Beat the Market! Buy Low, Sell High! Here\u2019s how\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

The only way you can make great returns in the market is to \u2018Buy Low, Sell High\u2019. Now that\u2019s glaringly obvious, you might say. Well if it is; let me ask you to elaborate on what is actually \u2018High\u2019 and what is actually \u2018Low\u2019? Most of us do not know the answer to this question.  And providing an answer to this, is the purpose of my second blog of the series on \u2018The Most Important Thing\u2019 by Howard Marks. You can read the first one here<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Simply put the aim is to buy something for less than you sell it for. But there has to be a standard against which this low and high is measured. And the best put standard is the assets intrinsic value. Set against this standard, the meaning of the saying becomes clear: buy at a price below intrinsic value, and sell at a higher price. Of course, to do that, you\u2019d better have a good idea of what is the intrinsic value of the stock you buy.<\/p>\n

There are two approaches you can take \u2013 value investing or growth investing<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

Value investors lay emphasis on tangible factors. They look at financial metrics like earnings, cash flows, dividends, enterprise value and hard assets to determine the stocks intrinsic value. The quest in value investing is for cheapness. The primary goal of value investors, then, is to quantify the company\u2019s current value and buy its securities when they can do so cheaply.<\/p>\n

Growth investing on the other hand aims at identifying companies with bright futures. Thus there is less emphasis on the company\u2019s current financials and more on its future potential.<\/p>\n

However, there is no bright line of distinction between the two \u2013 both require us to deal with the future. In general, the upside potential for being right about growth is more dramatic, and the upside potential for being right about value is more consistent.<\/p>\n

We, at MoneyWorks4me, have been long time advocates of the Value investing approach.<\/strong><\/span> And that is the way we suggest our investors to go. But the road to success isn\u2019t that easy. Once you\u2019ve identified your stocks intrinsic value using the value investing approach or contrarian investing as it is known, it requires you to hold onto your views consistently. As Keynes rightly put it, ”The markets can stay irrational longer than you can stay invested”<\/strong><\/em><\/span>.<\/p>\n

And MoneyWorks4me has had first-hand experience of this. In August 2013, when the entire market was dumping PSU and cyclical stocks, MoneyWorks4me recommended a few stocks from this lot, after deep value analysis. Many stocks dropped in value after we recommended them to you. And what did we do then? We asked you to average them. Today, many of these stocks have doubled in their prices and it is only now when market participants are asking you to buy these very same stocks.<\/p>\n

The point I am trying to make is that, as a value investor you have to have absolute conviction of your assessment of the stocks intrinsic value. So, if you like a particular stock at Rs. 60, you should like it more at 50 and much more at 40 and 30<\/strong><\/span>. But this is easier said than done. Any of you investors who have lost money in the market know what I am talking about. It is very difficult to invest more money in the stock that you\u2019re currently losing money on! But like I said, the road to success isn\u2019t easy.<\/p>\n

Thus, there are two essential ingredients for profit in the stock markets: you have to have a view on intrinsic value, and you have to hold that view strongly enough to be able to hang in and buy even as price declines suggest that you\u2019re wrong. Oh yes, there\u2019s a third: you have to be right.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

However, this isn\u2019t enough! Establishing a healthy relationship between fundamentals – value and price is at the core of successful investing. For a value investor, price has to be the starting point. It has been demonstrated time and time again that no asset is so good that it can\u2019t become a bad investment if bought at too high a price<\/strong><\/span>. And there are few assets so bad that they can\u2019t be a good investment when bought cheap enough. To put it in the word of Howard Marks \u2018No investment has the birth right of high return. It\u2019s only attractive if priced right.<\/p>\n

We now come to the question, what goes into the price? Duh, fundamental value of course. Wasn\u2019t that what we were blabbering about this entire time? Sure enough, however, the stocks prices are also governed by two more things \u2013 investor psychology and Technicals<\/p>\n

Most of us don\u2019t have a clue about technical. But, having psychology on your side and understanding or at the very least, attempting to understand other investor\u2019s minds and motives, may provide valuable insight that can be found nowhere else.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The polar opposite of this is trying to aimlessly chase market bubbles. We all know where it ends. (Just in case you have forgotten in these times of euphoria, let me remind you the 2008 sub prime crisis)<\/p>\n

In short, buying a stock for less than its value is the most dependable way to make profits. Of course it doesn\u2019t come with a guarantee\u2026 but it\u2019s the best chance we investors have!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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The only way you can make great returns in the market is to \u2018Buy Low, Sell High\u2019. Now that\u2019s glaringly obvious, you might say. Well if it is; let me ask you to elaborate on what is actually \u2018High\u2019 and what is actually \u2018Low\u2019? Most of us do not know the answer to this question.<\/p>\n

Providing an answer to this, is the purpose of my second blog of the series on \u2018The Most Important Thing\u2019 by Howard Marks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":20563,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"no","footnotes":""},"categories":[1156,1151],"tags":[39,1085,918,1086,1084,90],"modified_by":"MoneyWorks4me","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moneyworks4me.com\/investmentshastra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9461"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moneyworks4me.com\/investmentshastra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moneyworks4me.com\/investmentshastra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moneyworks4me.com\/investmentshastra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moneyworks4me.com\/investmentshastra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9461"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.moneyworks4me.com\/investmentshastra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20834,"href":"https:\/\/www.moneyworks4me.com\/investmentshastra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9461\/revisions\/20834"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moneyworks4me.com\/investmentshastra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moneyworks4me.com\/investmentshastra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moneyworks4me.com\/investmentshastra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moneyworks4me.com\/investmentshastra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}