Our Story
The method behind Wolf's Way
Wolf's Way puts a lifetime of investment discipline to work for the individual investor.
The Investor
Carl Wolf has been beating the market since 1994.
Carl Wolf is not a professional investor. He has no Bloomberg terminal, no team of analysts, and no institutional backing. What he has is a framework — a disciplined, rules-based approach to finding growth stocks at reasonable prices that he developed over decades of market cycles.
Over a 20-year period, Carl's stock portfolio averaged 22% annual returns, versus 11% for the S&P 500 and 16% for the NASDAQ. He did it through bull markets and bear markets, through the dot-com crash, the 2008 financial crisis, and the COVID collapse.
His edge was never information. It was discipline. A consistent framework, applied consistently.
I believe that the individual investor enjoys significant advantages over professional investors. Over the same 20 year period, the stock portfolio I started has grown an average of 22% per year, versus 11% for the S&P 500 and 16% for the NASDAQ.
Carl Wolf
Author, A Wolf Among the Bulls and Bears
The Framework
GARP — Growth at a Reasonable Price
Carl's method is built on the GARP principle — Growth at a Reasonable Price — a framework rooted in the idea that the best investments combine strong growth with sensible valuation. Carl took that foundation and built on it, developing his own set of criteria, rules, and valuation tools refined over 30 years of real portfolio management. The result is a structured, repeatable framework that any individual investor can learn and apply.
22%
Average annual return over 20 years
5
Core GARP criteria applied to every stock
30+
Years of market cycles navigated
The Book
A Wolf Among the Bulls and Bears
Carl's framework is documented in full in his book, A Wolf Among the Bulls and Bears — How an Individual Investor Can Beat the Market. Every rule, every criterion, and every lesson from 30 years of investing is in there. Wolf's Way puts that book into practice.
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Built by his son. For everyone.
Wolf's Way was built by David Wolf — Carl's son — to preserve his father's investment framework and make it accessible to the people who matter most: family, friends, and anyone serious about learning to invest the right way. The platform pairs Carl's specific, proven methodology with the reasoning capability of Claude — always transparent about which is which.
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