Filters list or complete check list

[cheapguy]

 

What are the filters everyone uses, before deciding to buy

Or what is your check list items ?

[arbitragr]

You'd be suprised how many stocks in this recent crisis that passed my checklist which have almost gone bust.

 

The filter is pretty well refined too, years and years of research through my undergrad years on Buffett/Munger/graham/modern value investors etc combined with my industry experience as an analyst and all.

It has been a totally unprecedented decline where lots of fundamentals almost got thrown out the door.

I say "almost" because maybe the markets are finally starting to turn now ... but it was a long struggle ... sort of like being an elastic band and having the strength to hold out before finally snapping.

 

The people who snapped are those unfortunate ones like that industrialist in Germany who committed suicide by putting himself on the railroad tracks.