How to Pick Stocks: One Manager's Approach

Editor's note: Many of you have asked us: "How do I get started picking stocks?" There's no one way, so we've asked some of our contributors to outline the basics of their approaches. This week money manager Jeffrey Bronchick, for his weekly TSC Buysider column, describes how his firm picks stocks. Upcoming we have a series on the topic by our (once) full-service broker Andrew Greta. Please let us know what you think and what more we can do to help you become a better do-it-yourself investor.

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One of the more irritating things about the investment arena is how nothing is really carved in stone. Nearly every theme, style of analysis, computer-generated program or mechanical approach to investing inevitably creates the seeds of its own demise as it drowns from overpopularity or some basic change in the inputs, which renders the model silly, if not financially dangerous. ...