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Looking for stocks to buy, investigation

by Michele Barry
(Pickering, Ontario, Canada)




what's the best way to learn how to investigate stocks to purchase? I'm new to this, put all my trading money into one stock.....had to dollar-cost average, made my money back plus a yield of a whopping $600.....took me over 14 months to achieve that.

I'd rather investigate and try a few shares of several types - won't likely make that mistake again and I'll investigate better next time.

CMK was the stock btw.....just in case you were curious.




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Looking for stocks to buy, investigation

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Apr 08, 2010
Stock Simplified Writes
by: Shaun

Sounds like you had quite a ride in the market.

Well there are a lot of different ways to investigate a stock. It kind of depends on how active you want to manage your account and what kind of return you are shooting for.
I’m just going to list a couple things here.

If you want to check to see how fundamentally strong a company is and how likely it is to perform well. This is the simple technique I've been using to do that. http://www.stocks-simplified.com/Best-Stocks-to-Invest-in.html

If you buy and hold this time it would be a good idea to buy 20 or so different companies, that way you are more diversified.

If you want to play a more active role in the market and trade short term on the other hand, chart patterns can be very powerful as long as the overall trend of the market is on your side. Here is a list of chart patterns and what the buy and sell signals are. http://www.stocks-simplified.com/chart_patterns.html

Just Remember that when you buy and sell with chart patterns it is all about cutting your losses short and not dollar cost averaging them if they turn against you.

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