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Strategies & Market Trends : How a normal person can invest like Warren Buffett -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: InvestorBlogger who wrote (1)	2/17/2016 4:33:39 AM
From: Luutzu	Respond to of 2

I think you got the facts right, but the argument is fundamentally flawed. Yes it is true that it's hard to invest like Buffett - not going to argue that he's just like one of us. Yes it's true that the floats and free cash from insurance and other businesses he now owns goes a long way. But Buffett was a successful investor long before all these floats and reputation and stature comes to affect his performance. That is, he started out just like us small people. Even got into Technical Analysis and a long sting looking for just cigar butts too. So how does an investor invest like Buffett? Do what he and Graham and Fisher have said: look at each investment as a business - everything else will follow. So the problem would be whether we can analyse a stock as a business or not; whether we have the patient and the ego to think that we know more than the market and see a gem while they see a useless rock; whether the economy and its corporations now and into the future is as bright as it has been for Buffett after WW2 when the great boom really takes off. Knowing how is one thing; finding opportunity is another. Finding then acting on it is what really does it. So while we might not be the next Buffett, following his and Grahams and Fisher's principles should work out alright in the end I believe.