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Crouch & Spring: A Simple Theory of Share Price Movements

January 9, 2024
Microsoft (MSFT) 3-month candlestick chart
Microsoft (MSFT) 3-month candlestick chart

Microsoft is looking like a classic example of my crouch and spring theory of investing. Another way of thinking of this is that it is unreasonable to expect shares to go up in a straight line. It is an endless process of three steps forward and one or two steps back, but if they keep doing this long enough, they can make serious, not to say astounding, progress.

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