The key to making
this contrarian strategy work is to not overdo it.
Not exact matches
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Contrarian Investing can be Used for Different Time Frames
Contrarian strategies do not
work well during bubbles (ie crypto).
It is a more
contrarian approach than developing a great
strategy (that you may not realize is optimized) and hoping it doesn't fail in the future or trying to determine an exit
strategy when it isn't
working.
If that is in fact the case, then
contrarian strategies that don't rely on value should also
work.
In other words, dollar - cost averaging
works because it's a slightly
contrarian strategy, where you buy more shares when the market goes down.
This would seem to indicate that, at an aggregate level at least, mean reversion is a powerful phenomenon and a pure
contrarian investment
strategy relying on mean reversion should
work.
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Works on Wall Street ---- recommended Dreman, D.,
Contrarian Investment
Strategies: Next Gen. ---- recommended Graham, B., The Intelligent Investor ---- recommended Plus — selections from Graham, B., O'Glove, T., Buffett, M., and more