Charts, Tables and Graphs Oh My!
by David Alan Carter
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. I can't argue with that. I'm a visual person - I think most people are, too. That's why I included graphics to help explain every major point in the book.
Want to see the fund Warren Buffett used to win a million-dollar bet? And how that fund performed for the 10-year period of the contest? There's a chart for that:
Want to see the fund Warren Buffett used to win a million-dollar bet? And how that fund performed for the 10-year period of the contest? There's a chart for that:
Want to see that same fund during a different 10-year time frame, which helps explain why the buy-and-hold concept can be riskier than many investors think? There's a chart for that:
Need a little bit of visual clarity to help explain the [often] inverse relationship between U.S. Treasury bonds and stocks? Let's go to the charts, and the two-month time frame around the Brexit vote in 2016:
How about an image to help understand the value of the "cash trigger," a key component of the strategy? We've got that:
The point is, financial text can too often be sleep inducing or indecipherable. Or both. Graphics can help get valuable points across. So when writing the book, I was all over that angle.
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