Editor's note: This is the first in a multi-part series explaining value investing to novice investors. Please leave us your thoughts or suggestions in the comments section below. My mother-in-law is known to my kids as Doodles. The name’s origin is a long story but what’s important here is that she is extremely smart and a very capable businesswoman (she doesn’t go by “Doodles” professionally). Still when we get together at the holidays the stock market questions start:   “What’s going to happen in the market?”   “Should I buy XYZ stock? My advisor said its chart indicates it ...