Walter Schloss

Charlie Munger once described the secret of success as “take a simple idea and take it seriously.” While that can be applied to many aspects of life, it is nowhere more important than in the stock market. The one simple rule to succeed in the markets doesn't involve fancy chart...

Time and time again, the academics and practitioners pretty much prove that value investing works better than just about any other approach to investing in the markets. Best of all, as Walter Schloss pointed out, it is pretty easy for most investors to learn and implement. It doesn't take a...

Benjamin Graham has served as the inspiration and intellectual mentor for generations of value investors. Many successful careers have been launched by a reading of the Intelligent Investor. Many others have perfected the art and science of investing by studying the classic editions of Security...

The question of value investing's lack of broad appeal has been visited by many over the years. The typical investor or trader continues to search for some sort of Holy Grail that unlocks the secrets of instantaneous stock market wealth. Many people have searched for it over the years and very...

In markets, as in life, humans have a natural tendency to complicate thing needlessly. Today, more than ever it seems that everyone is looking for some magic key or program that will allow them to painlessly and quickly make a fortune in the stock market. There is not one but that does not stop...

"The casino is open and we must go play now." That seems to be the attitude that infects all too many investors. When the opening bells ring on the NYSE every morning at 9:30 am EST, traders seem to feel the need to do something. The ticker tape is running, the talking heads on the media are...

Back in 2008, legendary investor Walter Schloss gave an interview and Q&A session with students at the Ben Graham Centre for Value Investing at the University of Western Ontario. The video is easily available around the web, but few people have actually viewed it. In fact, very few...