Do you have a coherent investment strategy? If not, then the video below will be extremely beneficial to you. In it, Fool contributor John Maxfield lays out a simple but effective investing framework, using well-known companies like Bank of America (BAC -0.72%) and Wells Fargo (WFC -0.57%) as examples, that is appropriate for virtually all individual investors.
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The Trick to Getting Rich: Investing Opportunistically
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