3 Hedge-Fund Stocks to Buy and Forget About

Hedge-fund managers are armed with enormous amounts of assets and data, so when they move, Mr. Market sits up and takes notice: With such large stakes involved, their buys and sells are not made lightly. And this may tempt retail investors to try and follow those giants' leads.

Trouble is, trying to replicate their strategies in a small portfolio will at best require some complex tactics, and at worst expose you to far too much risk. Even using their filings simply to point you toward good investments is chancy. The long periods between when they buy and sell and when they're required to show the public their moves can leave a retail investor chasing the ghost of profits past.

But even so, sometimes it is possible to find, among the popular hedge fund holdings, likely winners that it's not too late to buy. We asked a handful of your fellow investors here at The Motley Fool to pick some stocks they thought fit that bill. Read on to see why they chose Interactive Brokers (NASDAQ: IBKR), Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL), and Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN).

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Source: Fool.com