Bill Ackman: The Basics Of Stock Market Investing - Wall Street ...

From: Streettalk Daily X-Change - 7:31pm - November 29, 2012

Investor Bill Ackman has produced an excellent commentary on the basics of fundamental analysis and investing. ?Starting with a basic lemonade stand he goes through the importance of balance sheet and income statement analysis and how it all ties back into understanding how investing in stocks should be done. ? Unfortunately, the problem for most individuals is "short-term-ism" as this type of fundamental and investing view requires a long term holding period which ignores the short term movements of the market. ?History has shown that individuals do very poorly at true long term investing. Nonetheless, this is a terrific starting point for understanding the basics of how to read a financial statement and understanding what the various data points actually mean. {youtube}WEDIj9JBTC8{/youtube}

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