eli_sennesh comments on Procedural Knowledge Gaps - Less Wrong

126 Post author: Alicorn 08 February 2011 03:17AM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (1477)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: [deleted] 29 October 2014 03:13:03PM 0 points [-]

I think this is basically wrong, because opportunities are time-sensitive. If a company is undervalued now, it's not obvious it will remain undervalued until the next cyclical downturn, and you pass up on the benefits of any market correction in the valuation of the undervalued company.

Disagree. The point is not to pick out undervalued stocks, but to ride the cycles.

Comment author: Lumifer 29 October 2014 04:04:40PM 0 points [-]

If you want to ride the cycles, shouldn't you just market-time the broad index of your choice? Picking "undervalued" companies to ride the cycles implies that you have two skills (which, I think, are mostly orthogonal) -- the stock-picking skill and the market-timing skill.

Comment author: [deleted] 29 October 2014 04:30:15PM 0 points [-]

Fair enough, although I would generally say to pick the stock via fundamentals and industry-specific knowledge.