3 Reasons Investors Should Follow Conferences

Conferences are an excellent way for individual investors to gather information on publicly traded companies. Following conferences should be a major part of the due diligence process for all investing.

Here are three reasons individual investors should participate in conferences as much as possible.

1. The playing field is leveled.

Wall street firms will always have more access to company officials than individual investors: that is life. But at conferences like the RedChip Global Online CEO Conference, individual investors can submit questions.

If at the conference, it is possible to meet C-level executives at business entities. There's is no substitute for getting to know the leaders of a business where you are an investor.

Legendary investor Peter Lynch said individual investors had an advantage over Wall Street in actually seeing what was selling at the retail level: attending conferences increases that edge.

2. Learn a lot about that company and industry.

Investors will find out more at a conference than from reading or surfing the Internet...much, much more. There is no substitute for what can be learned in person.

The entire focus of the conference is on the publicly traded companies of a specific industry. An excellent example was the "Acquire or be Acquired 2014" conference for small banks, as reported in an article on Benzinga.

Tremendous amounts of information are made available. The investor becomes smarter, which means smarter investor decisions result. The advantage over Wall Street that Lynch wrote about in "Beating the Street" is furthered!

3. Profits can be made.

When publicly traded companies participate at conferences, many times the stock price will rise due to the additional exposure. As a timely example, Quadrant 4 Systems QFOR presented at the RedChip Global Online CEO Conference on April 23rd. The stock went up 13.73 percent.

All investors should take advantage of the opportunities presented at conferences.

A significant amount of due diligence can be performed. Important contacts can be made. Answers can be derived that would not otherwise. Participating in investor conferences is a savvy way for individual investors to increase their advantage over Wall Street!