VituVingiSana wrote:"Buy when there's blood in the streets, even if the blood is your own."[/b]
@vitu - Quite a lovely quote. If one took it seriously, he/she would make tonnes of money. Take last year around march for example. Even the midiocre investor knew that most of stocks were grossly undervalued. How many people bought shares big time? And I mean BIG time! Very few. Even the guys who are shouting buy this, buy that, buy everything were no where to be seen. Remember KQ at 16/=? Less than three people were consistently advocating for it. At 60/= after one year? Different story. Safcon at 2.60/=? Equity at 10/=? EABL at 100/=? The list goes on and on. I understand those guys who didn't have the purchasing power maybe coz their money was tied up in the same stocks but the guys who run to government paper AFTER the market had hit the bottom...
Never count on making a good sale. Have the purchase price be so attractive that even a mediocre sale gives good returns.