Sentences with phrase «people chase stocks»

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Templeton, Graham and Buffett reasoned that herding behavior (including momentum traders and short - term speculators that chase price trends) and overreaction bias (the tendency of people to overreact to bad news) are strong forces in the market that can push stocks far below their fair value.

«You can't always chase momentum stocks because at some point someone's left holding the door and you don't want to be that person,» says Small.

The problem I foresee is that people will chase the hot strategy the way they chased stocks or star mutual fund managers.

The intensity of investors» preferences may vary, but chasing outlier returns from stocks that are in vogue seems to be a steady habit... many people find it very hard to change their mindset, and they just don't seem to learn from experience.

Sometimes volatile stocks, like NASDAQ was a classic example, volatility became a fetish in and of itself, because it gave you upside risk capture, and people were actually chasing a lot of concepts, and stability became undervalued.