P Tom Gardner`s Top 5 Watchlist
1.25%May 24 | MyPlanIQ portfolio symbol P_32796
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it, or so the cynical old saw goes. As a stock-picking investor, I spend plenty of time studying investment ideas that went wrong. But as a Foolish optimist, I find it much more rewarding to look back at investment ideas that went right, and to try to learn why that happened. Since most of us own only a handful (or a few handfuls) of companies, this sort of backward-looking endeavor works best when it considers a larger group of individually selected stocks. For me, that means studying a watchlist. more...