Finding Profitable Stocks: Screens & Strategies

There are thousands of stocks (about 7,000 and 30,000 if including smaller and foreign exchanges). How can you find the winners? Use one of the simple screens that are available to you free from many web sites (such as the one from your broker) to find a handful of stocks. The filter criteria could be P/E < 5 , Sales Growth by 20% or a combination. If the screens consistently find you winners, they are good. It is more complicated than that. Otherwise there will be no poor folks. Strategies are similar to screening except finding stocks without screening such as finding stocks via headline news (Chapter 17). This book also includes when and why you want to sell some of your stocks (Section V). The strategy Buy and Hold is dead since 2000. This book is not written by a journalist (unless you enjoy good English only) but by one who uses screens successfully every week. This book was last updated in 2015, not 20 years ago when the conventional wisdom may have been outdated. I provide my amazing results in Chapter 2 (an article in a popular web site in investing) and most were found using screens and all were real trading as opposed to selected screens for selected periods by most other authors. From my real experience, there are screens for different purposes such as stocks for long-term, short-term and momentum. Some screens work better in different phases of a market cycle. We also have to monitor the performance results of our production screens (Chapter 1) to ensure we use are still winners. Size: 245 pages (6*9) Last Update: 09/2017