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jsullivan4's Public Page   May 25, 2012
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Sullivan Citadel Fund JFF  
Sullivan Tiger Fund TIGER  
     
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ABOUT jsullivan4
Age: >25  Occupation: Student 
Other Interests : Reading, Writing, Wrestling, Powerlifting/Bodybuilding.      
     
   
HOW THE MANAGER INVESTS
WHAT IS YOUR INVESTING STRATEGY? (GROWTH, VALUE, TECHNICAL ANALYSIS, ETC.)
answer --> I find traditional qualitative and quantitative analysis to be of little to no use and to reduce the stock-selection process to a game of luck. Studies have shown that investment professionals choose stocks no better than lay-people. I believe this can be explained by the Efficient Market Theory. Based on the assumption that EMT is in fact true, I believe I need to make a correct prediction about future events that is not easily deducible based on present circumstances. I speculate, and I admit it. At the end of the day, everyone is really a speculator, although no one likes to admit that anything the outcome of anything they are involved in is random. I choose most of my stocks based on my speculations about world events. I will then do a brief check of a company's spreadsheets, check their stock history, and just get a feel for their website before I invest. I like smaller, more volatile stocks, because they typically present the biggest gains. At the end of the day, you have to know something nobody else does. This only happens when you think you know something that will occur in the future.
HOW DO YOU SELECT NEW COMPANIES FOR YOUR FUNDS?
answer --> My mmethod analyis is macroeconomic, predicting events on a large scale that will invariably effect the smaller companies that compose the market. I believe in the Efficient Market Theory.
HOW DO YOU DECIDE TO REMOVE A STOCK FROM YOUR FUNDS?
answer --> When I feel the speculations that initially made it attractive to me have already actualized and been completely factored into the price and I have no further positive speculations about the stock. If I have gained large and am undecided about whether the stock will continue to go up or not, I will sell if there is a downward trend; if there is not a downward trend, I will then hold the stock until there is. This hurts some stocks by a few percentage points but some others (most notably foreign and small-cap companies) have really taken off after I was considering selling them.
     
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