Learn how to build a professional stock screener step by step: define your objective, choose the right metrics, set sector-aware thresholds, backtest your criteria, and avoid common screening mistakes.
Event-driven investing is one of the oldest hedge fund strategies, built around mergers, index rebalancing, and corporate catalysts. Learn how professionals classify, hedge, and size these trades.
Special situation investing targets temporary mispricings created by spin-offs, mergers, bankruptcies, and buybacks. Learn how merger arbitrage, spin-off investing, and event-driven strategies work, plus their risks.
Turnaround investing targets beaten-down companies showing genuine signs of recovery. Learn the screening criteria, warning signs of a value trap, and how to size and manage turnaround positions.
Cyclical stocks move with the economy; defensive stocks hold steady through it. Learn the key sector differences, examples, risk profiles, and how to allocate between them across the business cycle.
When markets get volatile, defensive investing strategies help protect capital and limit drawdowns. Learn about defensive stocks, low-volatility ETFs, bonds, dividends, and portfolio allocation tactics for uncertain markets.
Contrarian investing means going against the crowd: buying when fear dominates and selling when euphoria takes over. Learn the psychology, sentiment indicators, and risks behind this strategy.
Deep value investing looks for stocks trading far below intrinsic worth, often near or below liquidation value. Learn Benjamin Graham's net-net method, NCAV formula, screening criteria, and the risks of value traps.
GARP investing blends growth and value investing to find stocks with strong earnings growth trading at fair valuations. Learn the PEG ratio, Peter Lynch's approach, GARP ETFs, and how to build a GARP portfolio.
Growth and value investing rest on different assumptions about price, risk, and return. This advanced comparison covers metrics, factor performance, risk profiles, and when each style tends to lead.