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I try to only own 3-5 stocks at any given time for concentrated returns. I do not subscribe to any one investing strategy. I like to have a somewhat Bruce Lee/pragmatic approach to my investing. Many strategies have their own merit in the right venues and I like be flexible between them. Although, I do not believe in shorting stocks simply because the effort it takes to find a bad company could just as well be used to find a good company, and the risk/reward curve on a short is just not right in my opinion (unless its a terrible bear market) That said, my major influences are:
Peter Lynch
Cramer
George Soros
Ken Fisher
My dad - we talked about stocks and finance when I grew up instead of sports

In 2006, I did this:
ATI - 77.85% gain
MA - 33.78% gain
JPM - 19.29% gain
SMXC - 16.31% gain
DELL - 10.8% gain
CSC - 2.85% gain
CSCO - 8.22% loss
HAL - 22.61% loss
I also had a few non-performing trades that were + or - 0-2% and cut them loose to not tie up my cash that are omitted from here.

This was my first year of using real money (I just turned 24 and finally had excess cash flow at 23). Most of those were held for 2-3 months. I am not against holding stocks for a long time (I held ATI for 6 months) but I am also impatient.

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