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The Winning Investment System That Gave Us Warren Buffett and Peter Lynch

By , Executive Editor, Money Morning -

So what do Warren Buffett and Peter Lynch have in common?

Aside from being legendary investors, neither one of them has ever used technical analysis to dig up a market-beating stock pick.

In a world bereft of charts, trend lines, and candlesticks, both of these heavy weights have relied entirely on fundamental analysis to earn their famous fortunes.

In fact, their disdain for technical analysis is so complete that Buffett once remarked, "I realized technical analysis didn't work when I turned the charts upside down and didn't get a different answer."

Meanwhile, Lynch once observed, "Charts are great for predicting the past."

Instead of focusing on market momentum, they simply concentrated on finding long-term value. It's called fundamental analysis.

And over time, that singular "system" made both men very wealthy.

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Know When to Fold'em: When Is the Right Time to Sell a Stock?

By , Contributing Writer, Money Morning -

There's one word in every stock market movie ever made that's never uttered in a normal tone of voice. Never merely said, but rather shouted.

That word is SELL!

Indeed, no other word in the financial lexicon is so often associated with market uncertainty, investor fear, or in the worst case, outright panic . Truthfully, I can't recall a single film in which the protagonist calmly decides to sell based on reasoned analysis.

Of course, that's the case in movies because it makes for stronger plots - ones propelled by high drama and intense emotions. But all too often, it's much the same in real life.

And it shouldn't be.

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Playing 'Follow the Guru' Can Be Fun - and Profitable - for Investors

By , Contributing Writer, Money Morning -

If you wanted to distill all the world's best investment advice into a single sentence, it would probably come down to this: Follow the leader.

In short: Follow the guru. That's not just a clever phrase. In fact, if you picked any of the investment world's living legends and copied what they did, odds are you'd be pretty successful over time, regardless of the general market environment during any given short-term period.

We've whittled the investing wisdom of these three stalwarts - and others - into 15 rules to live by. We offered the first five rules in Part I of this story, which appeared yesterday (Wednesday). Here in today's second installment, we offer the final 10 rules.

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Playing 'Follow the Guru' Can Be Fun - and Profitable

By , Contributing Writer, Money Morning -

If you wanted to distill all the world's best investment advice down into a single sentence, the result would actually be fairly simple:

In short: Follow the guru. That's not just a clever phrase. In fact, if you picked any of the investment world's living legends and copied what they did, odds are you'd be pretty successful over time, regardless of the general market environment during any given short-term period.

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