My Updated Stock Screening Criteria

After the new edition of the IBD comes out each night, I start my stock screening. I get my stocks almost exclusively from the Stocks on the Move column every night. I just copy down the ticker symbols from the stocks above the line on both the NYSE and the NASDAQ. This should also tell [...] Read more »

Why Is The Stock Market Down Today

When you look at the market indexes each day, at some point you will ask yourself why is the stock market down today? This question will lead you to look at the major news sources for an answer. Over time, they will give you numerous answers as to what caused the market to close lower. [...] Read more »

Which Shares To Buy Today

I’ve been sitting on the sidelines and it’s time to see which shares to buy today because the IBD changed the current outlook to market in uptrend. So, I took some time to update my watchlist and ended up with the following stocks on it: IPGP CPX FCFS FOSL CPO CSL GSM SPRD WYNN AH GDI [...] Read more »

How To Build Your Own List Of Stocks To Buy Today Using Investors.com And Their eTables Service

I wanted to spend some time talking about how to build your very own list of potential stocks to buy using the tools at investors.com. I started from scratch building a watch list on Monday to document the exact steps I take to build my list. The idea behind building a list of stocks you [...] Read more »

How To Use The Big Picture Column In The Investor’s Business Daily

Well, I’ve taken a few months off from writing and figured that I would start things back up by talking about how to use “The Big Picture” column in the Investor’s Business Daily. Your first step each day should be to check the general market direction and you can do that by reviewing The Big [...] Read more »

Best Stock To Buy Right Now

So today I decided that the best stock to buy right now is Walter Energy, Inc. (NYSE: WLT). WLT broke out today up 4.16% on volume 132.77 % higher than average. It closed today at $115.12. It sports IBD Smart Select Ratings of 80+ and A or B. Earnings are up 471% over the prior [...] Read more »

Best CANSLIM Website

Many of my readers ask me, what is the best CANSLIM website. To me, that’s an easy question. While there are many websites that talk about CANSLIM, the best by far is investors.com. You’ll find all the tools you need to make money in the stock market right on that website. Now there are some [...] Read more »

Which Stock To Buy Today

OK. So, it’s time to look for which stock to buy today. I thought what I would do is kind of start from scratch here and let you know what I would do if I was starting from scratch looking for a potential stock to buy right now. Let’s talk about what not to do. [...] Read more »

CANSLIM Screener

Now that the market has turned, you want to become a CANSLIM screener. I have found that the best canslim stock screener is the Investor’s Business Daily. Each and every day, you’ll find several screens that can help you out. You can choose to use one of them or a combination of all of them. [...] Read more »

Market In Confirmed Uptrend

The current outlook was changed to market in confirmed uptrend by the editors of the Big Picture column in Monday’s edition of the IBD. The mood from the writers suggested to me that while they did change the outlook I wasn’t convinced they felt the change would be for real. However, opinion of what the [...] Read more »

Free Access To Investors com And eIBD

I thought I’d take a second here to let my readers know that Investors.com is offering free access from November 29th through December 12th. This is a good time to test drive the paper and the tools available on investors.com. The best thing is that you can use the full version of the paper in [...] Read more »

Buying Stocks For The First Time

If you are intimidated about buying stocks for the first time, you are not alone. A lot of people are intimidated by the stock market and are just not really sure where to begin. Most of the research I’ve read online spends a great deal of time teaching the beginner how to set up a [...] Read more »

Why I Think You Should Be Investing In The Stock Market Today

I guess that I want to go on record here and say why I think you should be investing in the stock market today. Yesterday, the Federal Reserve decided to pump $600 billion dollars into US Treasuries. I thought the timing of the decision was especially interesting coming a day after the elections. Anyway, it’s [...] Read more »

At What Percentage Drop Should I Sell A Stock?

I’m back today to answer one of my reader’s questions which was at what percentage drop should I sell a stock? I guess the answer to that depends on whether you just bought the stock or have had it for a while and it’s had a run up in price. I take my general rule [...] Read more »

New Stock Market Investing Site Launched: StockMarketInvesting.tv

I’ve created another section of stock market investing content and am putting it up on another site located at stockmarketinvesting.tv. You’ll notice that it has the same look and feel of this site. I’m doing this partly with the thought that I might put more how to start investing in the stock market videos over [...] Read more »

Why Is The Stock Market So Good Today?

A friend of mine asked me why is the stock market so good today? He’s been reading about the market trending higher. He was one of my friends who lost so much money in the last bear market. I think many people thought there would be no turn around. But everything runs in cycles and [...] Read more »

Buy And Sell Stocks: How To Lock In Gains

You’ve got to learn how to buy and sell stocks in order to make money in the stock market. You can’t expect to buy individual stocks, hold them forever and make money. Eventually your stock will come down in price. This is because the stock eventually falls out of favor with the institutions that pump [...] Read more »

How To Build Your Stock Watch List

I’ve updated my stock watch list for this week. You can usually find the list of stocks I’m watching in the sidebar. I currently have 19 stocks on my watch list. I keep these in My Stocks Lists at investors.com and also keep them in my Google Finance account. I thought it would be a [...] Read more »

Hot Stocks To Buy

I’m back in search of hot stocks to buy. The market indexes were all lower today but since volume was lower it didn’t affect the current market outlook which is market in confirmed uptrend. Remember that the first thing you want to check each day is the market direction. You can find it every day [...] Read more »

Good Stock Market Buys

Once the market closes, I start looking for good stock market buys. I do this by checking my screens to see which stocks are up in price and up in volume. Those that are and that meet my additional screening criteria are then added to my watch list. I then take a look at the [...] Read more »

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