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Growth Stock Investing: Streaky and Skewed

August 7, 2011
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Growth Stock Investing: Streaky and Skewed

Switching gears, I wanted to expound about something I wrote in the recent Cabot Market Letter; I got a good response to it, and I feel it teaches us a couple of lessons about the current market environment. What I wrote was that, in a growth stock investing system, your results are almost guaranteed to be both skewed (meaning a few stocks will account for the majority of your gains) and streaky (you’ll make big money for a few weeks, but then stagnate for months). I also included a chart of the Market Letter’s Model Portfolio from last year,...

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