How to Find New Stocks for Your Portfolio

Journalism often worries about favoritism in reporting. If a reporter owns shares in the company she is writing about, it might cause a bias. So the Motley Fool, like most financial media, requires its writers to disclose what stocks we own. That's why, at the bottom of our articles, you will see a disclosure notice.

Here's an interesting twist. The Motley Fool was founded by people who wanted to talk about the stocks that they bought. So from the very beginning, the Fool has encouraged its writers to invest in the stocks we are writing about. Many of us agree with author and investor Nassim Taleb that you want to pay attention to people who have skin in the game. So for me, the disclosure notice isn't a negative to be worried about. It's the opposite -- the disclosure notice indicates how much a writer believes in what he is saying. You want to read articles by people who have put their money where their mouth is.

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