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Welcome to A Patient Prospector! I’m John Buckingham, Editor-in-Chief and co-founding Executive Director at wealth management firm Value87 Investment Partners. At A Patient Prospector, we believe successful investing rarely comes from knowing what the market will do next. It comes from knowing what you own, then doing the work: studying […]
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The Patience Premium: The Role of Time in Value Investing
Christopher Quigley, CFA
Value investing might be described as the art of buying a dollar fifty cents. That’s been broadly true in our experience, but such a statement requires more context. One of the larger challenges for investors in general, not just Value investors, is waiting for the market to recognize what you […]
Market Observations for September 14, 2026
John Buckingham
It is hard to believe that 25 years have passed since your Editor turned down Fifth Avenue from 17th Street in Manhattan on what had been a beautiful Tuesday morning in Manhattan only to see that a plane had crashed into the World Trade Center. Having arrived a few minutes […]
Top Sources for Free Investment Data
Christopher Quigley, CFA
Investment research can draw on a variety of free investment data sources. Whether you are testing a factor strategy, estimating intrinsic value, analyzing market history or building a investing project in Python code, the data source you choose can affect your conclusions. Fortunately, investors and researchers can access a wide […]
What My Best Stock Picks Had in Common: Lessons from Decades of Value Investing
John Buckingham
Every investor remembers the winners. In my career, which started in 1987, Al Frank (the first Editor of The Prudent Speculator) and I (John Buckingham, the Editor of The Prudent Speculator from 2002 after Al passed away until 2026), I’ve been fortunate to have knocked it out of the park […]
Market Observations for September 7, 2026
John Buckingham
It has only been a week and Jeff Sommer, the usually pessimistic New York Times Sunday Columnist took Labor Day Weekend off, so we won’t know if his August 30th optimistic piece, entitled “What if This Market Rally Is Just Getting Started,” was a one-time deviation from his typical fare, […]
The 7 of the Biggest DIY Investing Mistakes and the Rules We Use to Avoid Them
Christopher Quigley, CFA
The biggest danger for DIY investors is not a lack of intelligence. It is a lack of process. Without rules, investors often buy after prices have already risen, sell after prices have already fallen, concentrate too heavily in familiar companies or mistake activity for progress. This risk can catch institutional […]