I wouldn’t buy this if I was you…

I’m no Nostradamus.

I possess no special extra-sensory perception, and my crystal ball is broken. Truth be told, it’s never worked.

But I’ve managed, thus far (and, as ever, past performance is no guarantee of future returns) to deliver market-beating performance over the last 9 or so years at Motley Fool Share Advisor.

I say that not to brag, but to differentiate between the power of ‘specific prediction’ and ‘a process that, on average and over time, has tended to deliver market-beating results’.

The former is fortune telling. The latter is a combination of analysis, research and pattern recognition: otherwise known, in the trade, as ‘fundamental analysis’: looking at a company and assessing its attractiveness based on things…

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