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Herd Mentality

Why 'everyone is buying' is dangerous

When everyone piles into a stock, price often detaches from fundamentals. The dot-com bubble and 2021 meme stocks are examples. Warren Buffett's rule: 'Be fearful when others are greedy, greedy when others are fearful.' If a stock is on the front page of every news outlet, most of the upside may already be priced in.

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What does Buffett mean by 'be fearful when others are greedy'?