I had another reader question today which was how do you tell when institutions are buying stock? This is a great question and really touches on the heart of the CANSLIM strategy which is institutional sponsorship. Without it, it’s hard to get the stock price to go up. With it, you can find some real [...] Read more »
How To Download IBD 200 To An Excel Spreadsheet
If you are looking for how to download the IBD 200 to an excel spreadsheet, what you are going to want to do is sign up for the eTables service on investors.com. Inside that subscription, you can download the main tables into an excel spreadsheet. It includes the top 300 stocks ranked by the Smart [...] Read more »
Stockbee Scam
I get a lot of visitors searching for information on a Stockbee scam. He has a membership site that now counts over a thousand members at the time of this writing. Because he is promoting a membership service, it’s easy to be concerned that it’s a scam. In particular, I know a lot of people [...] Read more »
CANSLIM Stock Screener
One of my readers asked me today about the best CANSLIM stock screener. While there are plenty of paid services out there, the best way to screen for CANSLIM stocks is just by subscribing to the Investor’s Business Daily. The IBD was created by the man who invented the strategy and he developed the screens [...] Read more »
How A Strong Stock Is Identified
A reader asked me today how a strong stock was identified. They read my post called What You Should Look At When Investing In A Stock. This is a key question. Every day, I get my IBD, I ask myself which stocks should I focus my time reviewing what I consider strong stocks. The first [...] Read more »
IBD’s Top 200 Composite Stocks
Every Thursday you can find the IBD’s Top 200 Composite stocks listed in the making money section of the Investor’s Business Daily. These 200 stocks are the top rated stocks ranked by the Smart Select Composite rating. Usually it returns the stocks ranked 96 or higher. Next to it, you’ll also find the bottom 200. [...] Read more »
Bluefin Stock Screener Review
I wanted to be one of the first to talk about the Bluefin Stock Screener review, or should I say preview. The Patient Fisherman is giving advance access to all Stockbee members. Stockbee says that it works in conjunction with the strategies on his blog. You can see the screenshots of what the program is [...] Read more »
Stockbee IBD 200 Update
It’s time for another Stockbee IBD 200 update. The first stock purchased using his strategy was Open Table Inc. (NASDAQ: OPEN). I’ve been simulating this test in my stock simulator to see how the strategy pans out. I read his post about how to trade the IBD 200 and decided to test it out. As [...] Read more »
Killerpennystocks.com Scam
My readers are reporting this week that they’re concerned about a killerpennystocks.com scam. I guess that this week they released another hot penny stock pick. The alert this week was AlphaTrade (OTC:APTD). I wrote an article called Killerpennystocks.com if you want to check it out. This alert should really be called a “micro” penny stock [...] Read more »
How To Count Distribution Days
I had a reader email me today and ask how to count distribution days. As I write this, the current distribution count stands at two on the NASDAQ and one each on the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average. If you are not sure what I’m talking about, you might want to check [...] Read more »
Stock Market Investing – Is The Market Bigger Than Us All?
A lot of people who study stock market investing eventually think the market is rigged. I’m no different. I think that for anybody who has invested in a stock only to watch it immediately go down, or for anyone who has retired at the same time all of their company stock tanked and for anyone [...] Read more »
Review Of Stockbee
I have several readers asking me to do a review of Stockbee. I talked about him in another article when I talked about the Stockbee market monitor. I don’t remember how I ran across his site, but I am glad that I did because it’s a wealth of information. While he details his strategies for [...] Read more »
Three Steps To Investing For Dummies
I consistently get emails from my readers asking what is an easy approach to investing for dummies. Most of us are not traders and we can’t sit at the computer all day studying the market. “WE” are the night traders. We look at the market each night. We look at our positions after the market [...] Read more »
Another Stockbee’s IBD 200 Strategy Update
Another quick update on my Stockbee IBD 200 Strategy. The first stock that I purchased in testing his strategy through my simulator is Open Table, Inc. (NASDAQ:OPEN). The stock was purchased on July 12 and so far so good. Today, the stock closed lower on lower volume. The real story for this stock though is [...] Read more »
Investopedia Stock Simulator
Over the past year, I’ve encouraged anyone new to use a stock market simulator. For the most part, I use the Investopedia Stock Simulator. It’s fairly easy to use and I like the interface better than some others that I have used. One of the great features of the investopedia.com is the there are a [...] Read more »
Criteria For IBD 200
A reader asked today what the criteria for IBD 200 was and how stocks showed up on that list. The IBD 200 is a list of stocks that are ranked by the SmartSelect Composite rating. This is the IBD’s own rating that they have created. It combines several factors all of which are not exactly [...] Read more »
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