01-16-2021, 07:20 AM
Should small investors just follow the trends?
<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>So I had a small portfolio a couple of years ago that was mostly composed of companies that were under valued (p/e around 10).</p> <p>I was trying to find stocks that were flying under the radar but that had good fundamentals. I was doing ok but let’s be honest, with this market everyone is doing ok. I have a friend that just buys the motley fool’s recommendations without even checking anything else about the company and he is doing great so it’s really not that hard right now...</p> <p>Anyway I was thinking about getting back into it but I feel like my all “under valued stocks with good fundamentals” strategy is naive.</p> <p>I am up against hedge funds that have tones of money and employees who are payed very well to watch the market all day long.</p> <p>So I think my “under valued” companies didn’t really fly under the radar, it’s just that nobody cared about them for certain reasons that I didn’t know because I didn’t look deep enough or I was missing some key informations about them.</p> <p>So do you think that realistically small investors should just follow the trend and not try to be the smart guy in the room or can the big guys in the market really miss certain stocks?</p> </div><!-- SC_ON --> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/gamedevshrine"> /u/gamedevshrine </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/investing/comments/kxv5ph/should_small_investors_just_follow_the_trends/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/investing/comments/kxv5ph/should_small_investors_just_follow_the_trends/">[comments]</a></span>Kind Regards R
<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>So I had a small portfolio a couple of years ago that was mostly composed of companies that were under valued (p/e around 10).</p> <p>I was trying to find stocks that were flying under the radar but that had good fundamentals. I was doing ok but let’s be honest, with this market everyone is doing ok. I have a friend that just buys the motley fool’s recommendations without even checking anything else about the company and he is doing great so it’s really not that hard right now...</p> <p>Anyway I was thinking about getting back into it but I feel like my all “under valued stocks with good fundamentals” strategy is naive.</p> <p>I am up against hedge funds that have tones of money and employees who are payed very well to watch the market all day long.</p> <p>So I think my “under valued” companies didn’t really fly under the radar, it’s just that nobody cared about them for certain reasons that I didn’t know because I didn’t look deep enough or I was missing some key informations about them.</p> <p>So do you think that realistically small investors should just follow the trend and not try to be the smart guy in the room or can the big guys in the market really miss certain stocks?</p> </div><!-- SC_ON --> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/gamedevshrine"> /u/gamedevshrine </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/investing/comments/kxv5ph/should_small_investors_just_follow_the_trends/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/investing/comments/kxv5ph/should_small_investors_just_follow_the_trends/">[comments]</a></span>Kind Regards R