Buffet made big moves in the stock market a couple of months agatha we just found out about last night. Buffets move seemed to overshadow the whole session. S p back. 3 . Nasdaq advanced. I have long been a believer in doing your own homework and finding your own Comfort Level with individual stocks. If you cant do that if you cant do the research and make up your own mind its imperative that you do not follow someone, anyone blindly whether it be me or a money manager you saw on television, a ceo that talks a good game or even yes, warren buffet. If you cant do the homework and you still want exposure to the stock market just go buy a index fund. I love index funds. They allow you to eliminate single stock risk meaning the one stock you can buy can be caught up in a scandal or miss the quarter repeatedly or simply not participate in the general upswing that youre looking for. There are plenty of indices out there to like. Its a total stock market return. Meaning all u. S. Stocks. I can get behind any fund that emphasizes dividends because i like income. You dont need a guru and if you buy one you should just invest in it and not trade it. Unfortunately lots of people dont subscribe to my view. They want to buy what a great investor buys. They think they can hitch the portfolio to a star and get all the advantages without having to do any work themselves. Today when we saw it the sec released the buys and sells of Berkshire Hathaway. Will it was. Terrible lazy thinking. Large sums of money were thrown at what buffet is buying and cash fled from what he is selling. Imitation is the sincerely form of stupidity. Consider back in november 2013. We learned that Berkshire Hathaway purchased 40 million shares of exxon mobil. It was so exciting. Everyone was buzzing about it. First of all we didnt know about it until way after it was bought. Theyre not submitted in real time. They dont have to be. Second they dont have to file like most other firms. For exxon buffet was able to amend a Second Quarter filing where he bought about 30 million shares ending june 30th. In other words buffet accumulated position in exxon over the course of the year with most of his buys coming before july but we only learned of it months later on november 14th. Yet exxon stock almost instantly shot up from 93 to 95 on the news of this stale purchase. Now keep in mind he didnt tell us why he bought exxon back then. He didnt say i like the oils and this is a terrific oil company. He didnt say he liked the Balance Sheet or the dividend. It didnt tell us if this was the moment to own oil. He said something and guess what he owes you nothing. You cant find out his reasons. He doesnt have to tell you. He isnt going to. Fast forward to last night when we learned his sold his entire stake in exxon sometime in the Fourth Quarter of last year. Of course the stock tanked. Oil was weak but it was down before it was weak. Now buffet didnt come on tv and tell us that he dumped it. He didnt say it was a mistake to pie an oil right here or perhaps he already has the railroad. Again, buffet owes you nothing. Somehow though now people suddenly decide its not worth it. He must be puzzled about how exxon went up if not down based on reports made ages ago. Exxon is the major oil company. Still if you like oil you can go buy exxon. If you dont like oil you shouldnt buy it. You should sell it. Dont try to mimic buffet. Youre going to get burned. He increased his stake in ibm by 9. 2 . Now has a huge position. Ibm has been a terrible performer for ages though and many thought that buffet would be dumping the stock because of the inability to meet its own targets. They always tell me hes dumping, hes dumping. Again ibm jumped a buck 23 on this news. What do we make of the move . Its safe to say buffet believes in the new ceo although shes hardly new anymore even though she failed to deliver the growth we expect from a tech company. They have sample cash flow. We know that buffet likes how the company used its cash to keep buying back stock. But should you like that . Should you like the stock of a company thats challenged on so many fronts . Buffet could sold it 30 points ago for a nice profit. But heres what you may not know if you bought ibm today, next thursday they have an analyst meeting. In that meeting were going to hear if they have gotten any closer to accelerating Revenue Growth or meet its targets and hear about the Cloud Strategy but also the roughly three quarters of business that has sub par growth versus the rest of the industry. Worrisome. If you bought the stock off of buffets coat tails i hope that meeting goes well for you but its a terrible investment strategy. If you did buy ibm see what you want from this analyst meeting. Form an opinion. Your own opinion. If you dont, then youll be clueless. Then theres john deere. He added almost 10 million more shares in the Fourth Quarter. Holy cow, wow. Immediately the stock jumps 2. 83 as people piled in. They now know that Farm Equipment play has a buffet endorsement so lets go buy some de. I say wait a second. Do you know that deere reports this friday . Do you know what youre expecting to hear from the company . Do you know their competitor was on this show making clear that things are not so hot in agriculture land . No its a warren buffet bought deere at a much lower price. Maybe youll get a better chance to buy more if the stock goes down when it reports . Thats the best i can say about deere other than the fact that the company has a history of using Conference Calls to throw cold water on the prospects which typically causes the stock to get hammered. This idea has been around for ages. I was hoping that after the round trip on exxon people say its not worth it. Im going to make my own Investment Decisions. You need to rely on yourself to have any real hope of making good money. Heres the bottom line. If youre absolutely desperate to piggy back off warren buffet just go buy shares in his company. Berkshire hathaway instead of trying to mimic his moves months after he made them. If you want bring yourself to to do your own homework save yourself some trouble and keep your money in an index fund. How about byron in oklahoma byron. Caller booyah to you from the great state of oklahoma. Truly great. Caller osu country. I was wondering, nike popped about 1. 9 today. If you were going to put it together, is it nike or ua . Put a gun to my head. Take the gun away. Those are two great stocks. Nike is great stocks of all time and underarmor has more risk than nike but if youre younger i think underarmour is the one you want to say ill key up with it but this guy, he has ambition. Lets go to glenn in south carolina, glenn. Caller hey jim, a big booyah from the palmetto. Whats going on. They just had monster earnings the other day but guidance was not so spectacular. Is it time to unload . I felt the same way. I said you know what theyre going to tell a good story and they didnt. And you know what that reminds me of fort net. They did the same thing. But rather than buy vasco i would prefer fort net. Will you guys cut it out. I turned positive on fireeye in the 30s. So just focus. David. Caller hey, mr. Cramer. Greetings from buffalo, new york. Oh man. My friend is going to love this phone call. Whats up. Caller before i say i wanted to give a quick shout out to my son benjamin and his buddies serving overseas. Yes, and tell them thank you from me. Caller well they are doing it man. Anyhow the stock is considering its spectacular run ups since september what to do with savings considering the possibility of the buyout. You have to get that pie out at this point. It puts a tough situation. You need a buyout to occur. Could it occur . I dont know. But this stock is now too high, sir. You need to have a buyout and therefore im uncomfortable. Although if they get the buyout it goes higher. Im uncomfortable recommending it here. Lower was better. Brian in West Virginia home of John Chambers brian. Caller all right, jim. It hit 28 today. 28. What a great school. What a great place to go. Ive been in cambridge since 1976 and watching you since you had gallagher hair. My question regards Health Care Trust of america. Weve had it in our ira and dividend reinvestment since you first mentioned it about a year and a half ago. Significant information this past week. What do you see for the longterm . Ive liked this stock since i was gallagher or whatever. This is terrific stock. It has much more to do with the fact that people think trade should go higher. The whole Utility Group is coming down too. Thats it. On a fundamental basis i like it. Im all about you doing your own homework and making your Investment Decisions yourself. But some investors believe in piggy back and today we saw the folly of such thinking. Mad money tonight, the fresh signs of growth and whole foods, can you keep gaining . And then if youre judging a stock like starbucks by the price of coffee beans youll be missing a big opportunity. Dont miss my take on what could power this premium player higher. Six flags taking investors on a heck of a ride. Can it keep the thrill alive . Lets speak to the ceo and stick with cramer. Dont miss a second of mad money follow jimcramer on twitter. Tweet cramer madtweets. Send jim an email to madmoney cnbc. Com or give us a call at 1800743cnbc. 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If you have any sudden decrease or loss in hearing or vision or any symptoms of an allergic reaction stop taking cialis and get medical help right away. Why pause the moment . Ask your doctor about cialis for daily use. For a free 30tablet trial go to cialis. Com whole foods has gotten its mojo back. The organic competition started heating up. The stock fell to the mid 30s a year later. Since then its bouncing back with managing engineering and lately its clear that theyre working in spectacular fashions. Stock is finding its way back up to 57. As of today new 52 week high. The company cut prices on goods and renovated a number of the stores and rolled out concepts to make itself more of a destination for shoppers. Rolling out an Exciting New Program becoming the first to use apple pay. These initiatives paid off noticeably. A 1 earnings beat. 10. 2 basis. Accelerating traffic trends. Plus this was also the Third Straight quarter where they beat expectations despite the price cuts. Even better management reaffirmed their full year guidance and they have an exciting day coming up next week. Lets check in with the coceo of whole foods and find out more about where his company is headed. Welcome back to mad money. Thank you for having us on. How much different is this store even from stores you opened three years ago . Every store is different. Can i tell you a couple of things . You go in there and theres where the customer orders their product and chop salads and sand wif witches. We have 100 new local products in this store and its an exciting day in the Upper East Side. Now theres an amazing transformation going on here. I see advertising. I get on the subway yesterday. The sign is whole foods, talapia 7. You also see best in class strawberries or berries. You see the balance of both. You have to be relevant on price so you can talk about quality. Quality of the food. Quality of the work place for the tale members. All of those things together. But youre telling about your own quality. I like the fact that youre saying how it was sourced. Youre getting into what i sympathy what the younger people really want. They dont trust the food chain. They want to know more. Youre giving them maximum disclosure on everything. You know the new value matters campaign, theres a great line in there. We care where our food comes from. We care what happens to it along the way, we want to trust our sources. This generation youre talking about values matter. They do want to know these things and no grocer is well equipped to provide the transparency and the information as Whole Foods Market. Lets talk about technology. I had not thought of whole foods aztec nolg. We got the best food what more do you need . Something happened. Youre the leader in apple pay . How did that happen . We realized the customer now is at the center of the retailing universe and theyre enabled and powered by their phone and technology and the retailer has to give them new experiences. So we layed out a digital road map. Were now the leading deliver to home of food. We set up youre the leading. Not amazon it happened quickly. 15 new markets coming up this next year and the full selection of product up on that portal so thats great. Second of all, the apple pay. Think about the apple watch coming soon. Making it easier for the customer to pay for their products and then the Affinity Program coming which will be a new connection in term of their personalized information. Now you do have some numbers. Can i tease you with more. Yes, please do that. Cheese club have to get there. Ultimately i believe that retailers are going to be the winners. The customers say sometimes this and sometimes that. You have to be there to serve them. Theyre already thinking about things we havent talked to you yet about how the customer may come into the store and have something fulfilled to their home. How can we provide information in a way that connects to their life at home. So we have lots of ideas that have not yet come out. The ideas were seeing today in the Upper East Side were these in the hopper say two years ago and you just couldnt talk about them yet because you didnt feel like they were ready . No its like we ask every new store to innovate and bring new experiences to the customer. What you see is creativity thats in the culture of whole foods and showing up in different ways. But yes, one thing people realize about our company, we have 2. 7 billion in sales. But we are a charge food service operation. Its an area thats not easy to compete with or to copy. And that area is continually changing and growing. Were seeing new experiences in ramen noodles, asian dishes all sorts of salads. Our salad bars are fantastic. So this change in food service and food choices. You talk about the millennial generations, they want the choices. Were there to do it. A lot of companies were financed. The stock market was bouyant and raised money. A lot of people thought the competition had gotten difficult in your space. Are these meant to difference yourself from the other guys. If we took it we said all right lets respond and continue to innovate so i think theyre all doing the main thing to remember about them is they are not us and we are not them. We have the highest standards in the industry. We always have. Well continue to be leaders and use the competition to make us better but what we do matters to say lets make sure youre clear. What is different about Whole Foods Market . What is it were doing thats different than the competitors. Two years ago the narrative was cannibalization, you couldnt lower the price of food and none of that came up this quarter. Heres the narrative now. Visibility of the company is higher. Momentum is broad based across the whole country and the innovation continued at an accelerated pace. Thats the story now. Theres places in this country we didnt think wed have a whole food that were getting a bunch of them. You have a newer opening in williamsburg. I live in brooklyn part time. Theres too many people in brooklyn. Theres 2. 3 Million People in brooklyn. We can handle a lot more stores. I think its one of the best work places in america in the last 16 or 17 years. For this store on the Upper East Side we had over 3,000 applicants for 400 spots. 3,000 applicants and people are coming saying this is a place that has some values. Values matter. So its not for the customers that waysay i want to know where my food comes from. How about the tap room . Is that something that attracts younger people. Its craft. Im a bud guy. I know nothing. You do your own thing but heres the thing, in two stores now were making our own beer and its actually pretty good and in the tap rooms its a place for people to gather. People want to gather and talk. This is why physical stores are going to be here for a long time. People want to come to the store. They like being with other people. So you put that together which i think we do very well you take that spirit and extend it to the digital world, now you have a winning formula. How did the valentines day promotion go that you mentioned on the conference call. It was a very good start. You said that the roses are we even care about how theyre sourced. These roses are whole trade roses. You have something up here. Its our ethical standards. They come from ecuador so its very attractive to customers. I said you understand even the price, they are h to because Natural Organic cant be too highly priced anymore. Your prices are now competitive with mainstream. Thats right. Were broadly competitive and relative on price even though a lot of our mix is different than the other stores carry. So its being relative and come pettive on price and making sure that were selling whole foods quality standards. People are lucky they can still buy the stock at 57. You were always energyfull of energy but the message is fabulous. Thank you. Go to the stores and read the conference call. I bet you want to buy it. After the break ill try to make