Posted by April 28, 2011
on He doesn’t know it, but this fellow is doing process driven trading, and I thought I should try to filter through the words to identify his process:
- Stage 1 – Search Sources
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- Use Screens
- Read Blogs
- Company Competitors
- A to Z by country or by industry
- Once a company is selected, look at:
- Stage 2 – First Filter – Valuation Ratios (30 seconds)
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- EV/EBIT
- P/Tangible Assets
- P/Sales
- P/Book
- FCF
- Stage 3 – Second Filter – Industry (30 seconds)
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- Avoid Real Estate
- Avoid Metals Miners
- Avoid Financials
- Avoid Capital Goods Makers
- Stage 4 – Third Filter – Self-Description (2 minutes)
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- Look for words like ”niche”, “specialized”
- Look for non-capital intensive
- Look for one of a kind
- Look for makers of cheap and repeat purchased things
- Look for distributors
- Look for stable revenues
- Look for businesses you understand
- Stage 5 – More Data (2 minutes)
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