About Me
I run an independent investment advisory firm that provides personalized consulting services in investment and asset management. My degree is in finance and I have worked in investment management for over 5 years. I currently write articles for Investopedia, Money Crashers, Money Under 30, Benzinga, Complex Search, Dividend Stocks Online, Moolanomy, Financial Advisory, Savings.com, and the Baltimore Investing Examiner. I write a monthly guest blog for FatWallet.com. My blog is followed by Seeking Alpha. I have written a personal finance column for Baltimore and Washington metropolitan newspapers. My articles have been published by Forbes, New York Daily News, San Francisco Chronicle, Yahoo Finance, and Google Finance. I also host another blog titled Financial Advice For Athletes.
I started this site because I have come across numbers of people with questions on all sorts of financial matters. I thought it might be useful to start a blog that tries to provides insight and clarity into any financial topic. Topics such as saving money, investing, debt reduction, credit questions, money management or whatever. Buy Like Buffett aims to follow the investing strategy of the world’s greatest investor Warren Buffett.
On Buy Like Buffett I will discuss my thoughts, strategies and ideas on all things finance. I will also discuss moves that I am making in my own portfolio. I welcome any suggestions or tips from readers. Please remember that all posts are my own personal opinion and not necessarily suited to your needs. Always make sure that each suggestion or idea fits your own personal situation.
Please send any questions or comments to mark(at) buylikebuffett.com
Thanks!
Mark
Great site Mark!!! Keep it up, you will have as much money as Buffett!!
1!! Do you know of any GOOD agents that could sit with Kevin and I and start our quest for credit rebuilding and first home buyers?
@tory
2Thanks. I can find someone. I knew Ugo who was in the business. I can try to contact him.
Hi Mark, nice blog. We recently started our own stocks blog and I like the quality of your posts. Would you be interested in writing some posts for us?
I have added you blog to our links page. We’re sort of aiming our content at the general part-time investor.
Regards,
3Alex
LEAPs are a great way to manage risk in 2009. Make sure you understand the rules of the road before you load up on them.
4Have a question about your site. How can I contact you directly? Email/phone
5@anonymous
6My email address is listed above.
Hi!
7I enjoy reading your blog and would be interested in hearing your opinion about the following site and its stock valuation model: http://www.istockresearch.com/
Alexander
Mark,
I enjoyed your article on athlete money “screw ups”. However, you listed “car washes” as one of Lenny Dystra’s failed businesses. In following the Dykstra story, it seems that the car wash business was the one thing that he was very successful in. I understand he sold that business at a huge profit. Nevertheless, it is an interesting story.
John
8@John Spence
9Thanks John. I listed the car wash business because he is being sued by family members for not sharing profits from the car wash. He is also accused of having ripped off $500,000 from a Nigerian doctor for another car wash venture.
Hi Mark,
I’m not sure if you got my previous e-mail; however, I just wanted to say that I enjoyed reading your article, “Seven costly pro athlete screw-ups.” I just wanted to say that I was in the same boat. You can google my name, “Oliver Galang.” I used to be a high roller and although I didn’t make millions, I made several thousand.
I don’t know. I guess I’m writing you to tell you that these athletes are just normal people, too. I mean, I used to think I was smarter than everybody, but then I lost it all. You see, athletes are just physically talented. They don’t know how to manage money. In my case, I thought $5,000 a hand on blackjack was nothing. Now, it means everything!
I was hoping you can do a little article about me, so people don’t gamble. I wrote two books. One about how card counting doesn’t work and the other one about my life.
Thanks for your time,
Oliver Galang
Author of Card Counting: The Real Truth in Blackjack and My Life: Gambling, Strippers, Bankruptcy and Suicide.
e-mail: batmn911@yahoo.com
10Hi Mark,
I’m having a hard time tracking down your email, so hopefully, this comment will reach you. I’ve been enjoying your recent posts and would like to correspond about possibly guest blogging on our site.
Please send me a note,
Laura Pagles
11@fatwallet
laura.pagles@fatwallet.com
Hi Mark,
Thanks for emailing. Unfortunately, my responses to your note have been bouncing back. I’m assuming that when you emailed me originally, my email was added to your address list. So I’m not sure where the fail is. Let me know if you get this and add me to your book.
Laura Pagles
12@fatwallet
@Laura Pagles
Hi Laura,
I tried to reply but the email bounced back.
13Good morning,
When I asked Google “Does Buffett have an interest in WM,” Buy Like Buffett was at the top of the page. What a brilliant idea. I was always in my own PR business in NYC, but due to physical problems, I had to stay home most of the time. I HAD to pay the rent, therefore, I started trading with Wells Fargo Advisors last March ’09 (beginner’s luck!)
When Buffett made $180 million in one day on AMEX, and I made about $2K, I decided something was wrong. Naturally, I do not have his kind of money to invest, but I decided to follow his lead, listen to him more (I did read his mentor’s (Graham) book, which he insisted on CNBC one day that everyone read if they were going into the bus.) I, therefore, decreased the number of stocks in my portfolio, investing more in each.
I am now down to 3: BRK-b, TEVA and JPM.
I am looking to build now even though I am going back into my PR bus — and when I heard online that Buffett and Gates had “interests” in WM and Republic, I decided to do my homework.
Mazel Tov on this idea for a blog.
What do you mean when you say, “My blog is followed by Seeking Alpha?” I have the highest respect for Seeking Alpha; it is one of the reasons I invested so much in TEVA.
My very best,
Janet
14Mark,
Can you explain in great detail the reasons why you think RAD, and BGP are going under ? RAD is up almost 200% in stock price from a year ago, and BGP is up over 205% in a year. If these companies were going under wouldnt their stock prices be in the toilet ?
15@janet sheekey weiss
Janet,
It looks like you have three solid stocks in your investment portfolio. When I say my blog is followed by seeking alpha; that means some of my best posts are picked up and posted in the site. I don’t have to submit them. Thanks for the kind words! Congratulations on the PR business.
16@Jeff
I think that Borders is going under because of its huge debt load and obsolete business model. You may be able to trade the stocks on a short term basis but investing in them for the long haul is dangerous. Borders stock rose because the company has been able to buy itself more time by pushing back its long term debt. The only hope for Borders is to be acquired by a larger competitor.
Rite Aid is a different case all together. The drugstore chain business is not dead, just overcrowded. Wal-Mart, Walgreens, CVS, and Target are all performing better than Rite Aid. Rite Aid’s biggest problems are too much debt and no profits. Rite Aid has $6.37 billion in debt and not enough profits to earn their way out of their long term debt problems. They just announced that the loss for 2011 will be even greater than 2010′s losses. I believe that the long term future is bleak for both companies.
17Hey Mark, I just reached out to Horizon with a request to get in touch with you. I would like to speak with you about the article that Yahoo! just ran. Can you get back to me when you have a bit of time? Thanks!
Mike
18concerning: http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/4048540#
ATVI Call duty franchise is in jeopardy, also World Of War-craft ‘s consumer base slowly dying.
ERTS is better positioned and has decent roots planted in the Emerging Social gaming market(F2P).- F2P will make W.O.W like revenue in the near future. (i’m not a big ERTS fan)
I would look into comparing positions among the giants vs long term stability.
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