
165: Michael Samuels – Speculating on Mergers—and a Case of “Excessive” Due Diligence
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How to Be an Event-Driven Trader
You want to focus on the stocks which you believe have a reason that the value of that company is either going to increase or decrease. If you're trading, you need some sort of news aggregator. You should know who's reporting today and tomorrow who reported last night. Then you spend most of your time reading Wall Street notes and having access to research is so important because at the end of the day, that's what's moving stocks around. Getting ahead of that is the most critical thing and anticipating what these big funds are going to do.
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