Is there a better way to go at this?

[pmayo]

Ok, I'm new at this. But here's what I did. I used the stock screener at msnmoneycentral and screened for :
allindustries, small cap, any dividend, low PE, high net profit, low debt, high growth, low volume.


Of the stocks in the results I am looking into the best fundamentals. Some names were:

SAB, FFFS, HAMP, APAGE and ICAB

I've never heard of any of them but they seem to be worth further research.

Is there a better way to go at this?

[Luc1Grunt]

marketwatch, investor tools, stock screener, will give you a few more options such as relationship to moving averages, volume, block trades etc.

stockfetcher.com jacobnr1 recommends, I'm still learning though.
americanbulls.com for candlestick recommendations
wealthlab.com
breakoutwatch.com for cup and handle recommendations in bull market
yahoo has a screener
scottrade as well as on-line borkers all have screeners.

hope that helps.

I could still use some help on stockfetcher and wealth lab.

[boxcar]

ONE way to get started is to review Vanguard or Fidelity or any others
Mutual Funds performance lists to get an idea which SECTORS work,
(like Energy has been booming along at 50%+ growth the last 2 years)
Then review companys those Mutual Funds own as for what to look at.
Hey, if a fund is growing at 50%, it means they're buying the right stuff.

You've heard "Buy LO, Sell HI"? To minimize RISK, as soon as your stock
DOUBLES from price you bought it, then sell HALF of it. Why? No RISK
You can't lose money if its in your pocket- all the rest is gravy. I tell you
this, because there is always the danger of a stock crash. The market
will not go to zero, tho some stocks do. And you can pick up bargains
when it does. Head and Shoulders occur partly because of this strategy.
People buy at price A and it goes to 2A, so there's a sell off and then they
buy it back when it drops back down to A, but that causes it to go up.
Point is, if you missed a chance to buy, just WAIT or put in a buy at the
previous shoulder, and chances are it will dwindle down to that level just
before it takes off again like you thot it would when you first thot about it.
Psychology and Timing are what makes the market so interesting.

I wanted to buy Harley when they reinvented themselves in 1982 but I
waited 5yrs until the stk crash fall '87 when I scraped together all I could
a measly $500 to buy HD when it bottomed at $6. By the time Merrill
Lynch got the order in, it was up to $16, but still, over the next decade
they split 5 or 6 times. I sold my original investment for $47,000 Dec03
If I'd just put in $1000 it would have been $100,000 1st week of Jan04
Point is, you've got to research the future of a stock, if its gonna' split.

Check out StockCharts.com and note they have at least 3 indicators to
agree before you acquire a stock- crossing moving average & 50%zone
When you understand a sector, you can begin to get your own ideas.
Best thing is to pick a sector like Energy and learn all you can about it,
for instance, which is the better investment, OIL or GAS or can U do both.

Typ Natural Gas stocks would be CHK or APA. And don't just use P/E etc.
LNG had a 300 P/E. Why? They were plowing all their money into growth, in the middle of building receiving terminals for the coming flood of LNG
when the SuperLNGTankers become available to ship from NG storage &
pipelines that are being built (Caspian Sea to Mediteranean) as U read

Every sector has its own CHANGING pecularities, that you have to do
research on- that's part of what makes investing fascinating, you have
to really understand what's going on in the world- like the real reason
OIL has jumped in price is the same reason as way back in 1974- to wit:
How we gonna' pay for the SuperTankers needed to transport OIL across
the pond? Easy, jump up the cost of a barrell of OIL and you got the $$
Only now its to build SuperLNGTankers that require refrigeration and
spherical onboard presurrized containers, not cheap, so OIL is way up!

BTW, in 1974 the BULK of US foreign oil came from ONE OPEC nation-
Venezuela, and Granada is just off the coast of Venezuela, and Cuba
was in between our foreign oil feeding dish when JFK gave Cuba away.
Guess why JFK got shot? Oswald was a patsy- he shot TX Gov. Connly
Point is, if you dig deep enough, you can find the real picture....

Global conflicts have always been about natural resources & control
Nothing's changed, it still is, and it still impacts everyone's economy.

[pmayo]

Check out StockCharts.com and note they have at least 3 indicators to
agree before you acquire a stock- crossing moving average & 50%zone


How about most helpful indicators? I've been going with BB, MACD, Slow Stocastic and ulitmate Oscillator.

BTW: I don't quite get why GE reports a little less earnings than expected and the price continues to plummet while F reports disaster and the price goes up. :?: