Contrarians Invest to Beat of Different Drummer

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If you'd consider it foolhardy to invest in a Florida real estate company this year, you're not a contrarian investor.

Contrarians buy sandals in winter, snowshoes in summer, and openly scoff at all the "index huggers." They saw the Internet bubble for what it was and refuse to chase anything on a Wall Street buy list.

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Contrarians Invest to Beat of Different Drummer

While value investors seek promising stocks selling at low prices, true contrarians are students of psychology who move in an opposite direction from either market optimism or pessimism. Yet they're nobody's fools, only going against the grain if they first calculate t...

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