My Boring Old Stocks Will Beat the Pants off Wall Street's Favorites Every Single Time

You don't have to look far to find someone mourning the death of value investing; it dominates headlines in investing circles. It seems, the obituary goes, that the growth indexes have handily beaten the value indexes over the past few years... and, why, you'd have to have rocks in your head to use value investing techniques. Nevermind that it's crazy to use an index to track the value investors' performance. This approach is all about using rigorous quantitative or fundamental research techniques - or some combination of the two - to uncover opportunities that the market has overlooked. By definition, there just are not that many opportunities (or good ones, at any rate) except at market extremes. There sure as hell are not anywhere near the - good grief - 2,000 or so stocks that FTSE Russell uses to form its value index. Value investors hunt with a rifle, not a shotgun. I'll be blunt: That argument against value investing may well be the dumbest argument of all time. And if you buy into it, it's costing you money... Tags: trading strategies To get full access to all Money Morning content, click here About Money Morning: Money Morning gives you access to a team of ten market experts with more than 250 years of combined investing experience – for free . Our experts – who have appeared on FOXBusiness, CNBC, NPR, and BloombergTV – deliver daily investing tips and stock picks, provide analysis with actions to take, and answer your biggest market questions. Our goal is to help our millions of e-newsletter subscribers and Moneymorning.com visitors become smarter, more confident investors. Disclaimer: © 2018 Money Morning and Money Map Press. All Rights Reserved. Protected by copyright of the United States and international treaties. Any reproduction, copying, or redistribution (electronic or otherwise, including the world wide web), of content from this webpage, in whole or in part, is strictly prohibited without the express written permission of Money Morning. 16 W. Madison St. Baltimore, MD, 21201. The post My Boring Old Stocks Will Beat the Pants off Wall Street's Favorites Every Single Time appeared first on Money Morning - We Make Investing Profitable .