Warren Buffett meets Sherlock Holmes

Investment Articles

A selection of articles and books by John Price
to help your investing

General Articles

The Return of the Buffetteers (Investor Journal, August 1998)
  The wit and wisdom of Warren Buffett as told to the shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway at the 1998 Annual Meeting.
The Hidden Desire of Investors
  Investors ask a whole range of questions. But underneath they really only want the answer to one question. This article describes this question and explains how to answer it.
The Transformational Journey of Wealth (Wellbeing, October 2000)
  This article has the theme that wealth is not a destination—it is a journey of transformations through levels of spiritual, emotional and financial abundance.
Sherlock Holmes and the Science of Investing
  It is amazing how many of the ideas and principles used by the character of Sherlock Holmes apply to investing. This article lists some of them.

Price on Value

Over the years I have written articles that formed part of a series called "Price on Value". The following is a selection of these articles chosen because their themes involve principles of investing, rather than related to events at the time. After all, a principle is not a principle if it can become outdated.

Using Valuesoft

A collection of articles showing how easy it is to use Valuesoft

How to Let Valuesoft Templates Do the Number Crunching For You
USA: [ Article 1 ], [ Article 2 ]; Australia: [ Article 1 ], [ Article 2 ]

Options and Foreign Exchange

Managing Currency Rate Movement: Weighing the Options (Export Today, Feb/Mar 1992)
  An introduction to the basic types of risk management tools and strategies used to protect exporters and importers against volatile currency movements.
The Case of the Missing Ten Pounds (Derivatives Strategy, October 1997)
  A Sherlock Holmes mystery in which, in order to assist Dr. Watson, Holmes explains the mysteries of forward pricing, options theory and other financial arcana.

 

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