Finding Your Investing Riff [Fribble] March 2, 2000  Fribble
Finding Your Investing Riff  By Bob Bloomfield ( March 2, 2000
My two favorite hobbies are investing and music. In many ways,
they have metaphorical similarities. Let me illustrate.  I have
been playing and writing music since my teen years. Before I was
good at song-writing, I was a decent violin player. Then I
learned about music theory and music composition. I learned how
one style of music was different from others, such as classical
versus rock 'n roll. As I developed my song-writing skills, I
was able to develop my own style.  Similarly in stock picking,
one learns the fundamentals such as sales and earnings growth,
gross margins, etc. When one gets proficient at stock picking, a
unique style emerges. Take the Gardner brothers. David's style
of investing is Rule-Breaking companies. While Tom's investment
style is Rule-Making companies.  While I was a music major in
college, I was one of the few song-writing students. Most of the
other student