Raphael's Story

I read a lot - industry news, blogs, forums... - and serendipity played an important part of my investment process.

My process would involve reading about an interesting company, falling into a "due diligence rabbit hole", and buying it when I'd fallen in love with it. There are two big issues with this approach: it introduces emotion, which can cloud judgement when it's time to sell - and it takes a huge amount of time.

Certainly. The screeners are really convenient and powerful, and the StockReports are very efficient to decide at a glance if a company is worth investigating further. This helped me discover companies that would not have been on my radar otherwise.

My performances are indeed better, and having the numbers to back my choices help me to invest more decidedly. Before, I often had good performance on smaller positions but I had not dared to increase these due to self-doubt. Now I can boost these position sizes confidently.