Owen Bernard

I started out doing technical analysis and did really well on a small trade, Thornburg Mortgage, which later went bankrupt. I questioned the sustainability of my success with the trade and tried repeating the process with other stocks. It proved unsuccessful. So I searched for other ways of making money in the stock market. I began reading about various investment strategies and it was like an inoculation to follow the value investing strategy. I began immediately putting it to practice by purchasing General Electric's Stock prior to it crashing, losing a substantial amount of my own money. Not discouraged from the loss due to my belief of the value mantra, I plugged away at the process finding great idea like Domtar ...More Corp. (UFS) and Gannet (GCI) conducting DCF analysis. Now, I find myself with a huge database of information with readings about Benjamin Graham, Warren Buffett, Charlie T. Munger(my personal favorite whom I try to emulate), Joel Greenblatt, Philip Fisher, Brian Yacktman, and numerous others. I have a small capital base where my investment approach is as business-like as I can implement where my desire is to purchase an entire company but realize my inability to do so and look for the next best thing in owning shares on the open market.

Notable Quotes:

"A business without a strategy is a hobby; a strategy without an action plan is masturbatory; strategy and action plan without meaningful financial and non-financial metrics is a bankruptcy."

- RHD, Seeking Alpha

$INFU +5.71% midday. Interesting discussions underway for company. 2 days ago