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So why, then, do we all fall in line? Well, it’s human nature to want to know the future, to desire the comfort of foresight. But it’s a human failing to rely upon someone’s prediction. We like to trust people in authority or people who we perceive as having more credibility than we do, more experience, more education. The simple fact remains, however, that no one knows what the future holds. No one. So isn’t it better to make decisions based upon what you can know—the present and the past? I’ve never been one of those people to fall in line.
Which one do most investors buy? Remember: If you were truly trying to buy low, then wouldn’t the headlines, analyst recommendations, and investor enthusiasm be pretty underwhelming? If you were truly trying to sell high, then wouldn’t the headlines, analyst recommendations, and investor enthusiasm be pretty overwhelming? In his book The Little Book of Behavioral Investing,3 James Montier explores the folly of forecasting. It seems that, as humans, we just aren’t very good at it. Economists have failed to predict the last four recessions, he writes, and investment analysts are staggeringly wrong—two-year forecasts are wrong 94 percent of the time, and even 12-month forecasts have a miss rate of 45 percent.
I remember telling them that six analysts had downgraded the stock, including the firm I was working for at the time. ” So I bought it thinking they were going to regret it, and instead their investment made a considerable amount of money as the stock rose in value. What I realized is that most analysts will upgrade a stock after it has become common knowledge that the antibiotics have worked and the stock has recovered, and will downgrade a stock after it has become common knowledge the company is ill and the recent stock performance is underwhelming.