Monday, February 28, 2011

An idea that should be propagated

Sempre é bom dar uma olhada no retrovisor

The article talks about a study that found that stocks have some kind of inertia, i.e. the best stocks in a given year probably will be good performers in the next year.

That is one of the most stupid ideas I ever read, so it should be propagated.
That way the Intelligent Investors can work in a less competitive environment.

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1 comments:

sid said...

It's not so absurd, in the sense that it really occurs.
And again we have availability bias in action. See here:

http://www.investopedia.com/university/behavioral_finance/behavioral10.asp

"Surprisingly, it was found that the losers portfolio consistently beat the market index, while the winners portfolio consistently underperformed. In total, the cumulative difference between the two portfolios was almost 25% during the three-year time span. In other words, it appears that the original "winners" would became "losers", and vice versa"

But I really agree that we should propagate any stupid ideas!

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