A stock picker turns off analyst ratings to remove emotion and opinion from investment decisions. The core practice: rely only on objective data, never on what other people think about a stock.
every single time you look at the data, then you don't have to get— emotion doesn't get involved. You don't have to worry about somebody else's opinions, all those types of things. I mean, one of the first things I do with this stock selection criteria tool that we use is we turn off analyst ratings because we don't care what somebody else thinks. We want to know what the data is. We want to know what the data is telling us.
Oh, I love that. Can you just repeat that, please?
You want me to repeat it? Yeah, we don't care. We don't care what anybody else thinks about an investment. We let the data tell us the story.