• Researching stocks is simple: you have to leave no stone (stock) unturned, meticulously assess risks, calculate present values of future cash flows, compare the stock price, and if your estimated value is much higher, assess how much of your portfolio to put into a stock.
• Unfortunately, this is more than a full-time job. You have to love it and more than a decade of experience helps. For those that don’t have the time, we’ll provide a solution.
• This article also includes a detailed example of an investigation on a stock that didn’t turn out as an investment. Usually, only one of 20 thoroughly researched stocks turn out as a potential investment. In the end, it boils down to the fact that only 1 out of more than a 1,000 researched stocks is a good investment.

Introduction

I was a spear fisher for many years. It was my passion, and I went fishing more than 150 times per year. You can watch a video of what I was doing here.

If you are or know fellow fishermen, you know that we live for the big catch. However, catching the fish of the year takes thousands of hours gaining experience, patient searching for the best spot and the best time, and analyzing many variables that can increase your odds at catching the big one with billions of small fish swimming around.

After a few years of diving, I learned that it all boils down to pure statistics. The more time I spent at sea, dives I made, and the more times I came home empty handed, the higher the probability became for a big catch. More →