One Up on Wall Street

The finance onslaught continues. Peter's a funny guy. His strategies for stockpicking, for example, include finding companies that do boring or disgusting things be cause since people don't like to think about it, it's more likely to stay under the radar. In general, he want us to avoid stocks that have large institutional ownership. Lynch, again, is a value invester and suggests to watch the fundamentals. Finally, he recommends keeping an eye out for stocks towards the end of the year. There's often a lot selling because institutions are cleaning up their portfolios, brokers are looking to make some extra money by telling their clients to sell losses for tax purposes. Lots of selling means lots of baragins.

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