How Did Warren Buffett Beat the Market in the 1950s?
Monday, March 22nd, 2010 at
4:11 am
Paul N asked:
Everyone says that Buffett is a “buy and hold” investor and that his favorite holding period is “for life.” But I know for a fact that when he beat the pants off the market in the 1950s, he was basically TRADING… and he even said that he traded commodities options. Does anyone know what his strategy was? Thanks!
Everyone says that Buffett is a “buy and hold” investor and that his favorite holding period is “for life.” But I know for a fact that when he beat the pants off the market in the 1950s, he was basically TRADING… and he even said that he traded commodities options. Does anyone know what his strategy was? Thanks!
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Where did you hear this? Warren Buffet has never traded commodities options. After reading his personally endorsed biography, I discovered his strategy was to buy undervalued companies, based on fundamental analysis. Market inefficiencies were more common then, and through careful calculations and analysis he was able to see which companies were most under priced relative to their earnings and book value.
I would be very interested in discovering where you heard he was trading… In the CNBC interview with Buffett which aired last year, he said he was unable to predict short term price swings and therefore never tried.
where did you hear this??
Warren Buffet:
Made it big in the 70′s
Didn’t trade commodities
Didn’t trade (dude, it’s an insult to some ******** traders who disassociate themselves from anyone close to investing)