Profitable Patterns
The basis for making profitable investments, to my mind, is the ability to sort the "good" ones from the "bad" ones. A high percentage - I'll just pick a figure out of the air... say 95%... of the potential stocks out there are not worthy of our time or effort. This means being able to quickly sift through many potential stocks quickly and easily.
My all-time personal favorite technique for quickly confirming whether or not a particular stock is worthy of further consideration is the ability to spot chart patterns - what I call profitable or "tradeable" patterns. The basis for determining a profitable pattern is simple - it rests on the ability to draw meaningful trendlines and to interpret them correctly.
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