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By now you know that the stock market and stocks follow a 5 wave sequence on the way up and a 3 wave down in any degree of time. Thus long term investment trends in individual stocks also last for 10-15 years and go though phases that change from the value phase to the growth phase to the defensive phase.
After years of working on my Market Analysis Technique when I stumbled upon Sharekhan's original Segmentation of Research into categories like "Ugly duckling", "Emerging Star", "Evergreen", "Vultures Pick", I realized that the thinking behind this naming ceremony had a strong behavioral angle.
The 5-3 sequence of Elliott Wave counts also is a Behavioral model for long term investing as reflected from this one Figure in Frost and Prechter's Elliott Wave Principle. Based on this waves 1-2 are the value phase, 3-4 the growth phase and wave 5 the defensive phase of a stocks business cycle.