We're reminded of the lessons of long-term investing as we celebrate the achievements and impact of one of the champions of the modern investment club movement.

What can we learn from selections made during the last year? Last three years? Last five?

<strong>Signal:</strong> Anything that serves to indicate, warn, direct or command.

This month we celebrate the enhancements to the Manifest Investing web site.

Our community thrives on stripping away the emotions that sometimes include nasty memories, muddied results and focus on the road ahead.

Our Round Table monthly stock discussions are just one example of the 'campfire' opportunities to share and get some investing ideas from our friends and colleagues.

The challenge is simple. Select five stocks, starting on our national holiday, Groundhog Day -- and take care of the portfolio going forward..

There's a whole lot of impossible going on all around us.

We screen for the best companies. We screen for the best returns without getting too ambitious. Rinse. Repeat.

Trust, but verify. We've made subtle shifts over the years in characteristics like EPS Stability and Financial Strength ... we make another subtle change this month.

Small companies can deliver large impact on our investing journey.

We don't have all the answers, but if you're like Cy, you've found some of them in our community of like-minded, long-term fundamental investors.