This is a great article from Alpha Architect – short excerpt below Value Investing: Can You Withstand The Pain? by Jack Vogel, Ph.D., Alpha Architect So why isn’t everyone buying cheap stocks? Being a value investor requires some patience and faith that market overreactions will eventually be corrected. In theory, value investing is easy: buy and hold cheap stocks for the long haul. In practice, value investing IS ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE. Using Ken French’s data, we examined some time periods where it was painful to be a value investor. One such period is during the run-up to the internet bubble. We examine the returns from…
Value Investing: Can You Withstand The Pain?
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