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1.
Fat-pitch strategy argues that you should be comfortable holding cash instead of being invested in stocks when the market is already rising.
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True. Fat-pitch strategy argues that it is an advantage to forego buying strong companies when their prices are rising and instead wait with your cash in hand for when their stock prices dip.
2.
"Fat pitch" companies normally have _______.
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All of the above. Looking for these characteristics will help you identify fat-pitch opportunities.
3.
When following a fat-pitch strategy, why would you not want to trade very often?
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The odds are that the stock's underlying value will continue increasing. Why sell a stock when it keeps rising year after year?
4.
Buying the stocks of wide-moat companies provides an automatic margin of safety because _______.
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The companies' stock prices will likely appreciate in value anyway. Given the competitive advantages of wide-moat companies, their stock prices will likely rise, eventually catching up to your fair value estimate of them.
5.
If you want to succeed with a concentrated portfolio of stocks (say, fewer than 20), you should _______.
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All of the above. A concentrated portfolio will generally only work if you do all three of these things.