IBD

Stocks_N_Bondage

You're not retarded, you are happily welcome at every casino with a handshake and a smile and free drinks! Just think, had you done the exact opposite, you'd be a millionaire right now, and everyone would say "genius!!" Or as I often say about myself "you zigged when you should have zagged"... I've made that kind of directional mistake - often. How am I still here, making a living staring at candles and shouting at my computer? Because I have never in my life shoved my whole portfolio into a hail mary in a trading environment I don't understand. But on the plus side, you're providing much needed exit liquidity, a civic duty and many owe you a debt of thanks. Seriously, you want to actually make money? Read "How to make money in Stocks" by William O'Neil, and then read "Trade like a Champion" by Mark Minervini. Subscribe teo IBD, get MarketSurge. Get training. You could have spent a couple grand on classes and prevented hundreds of grand in losses.

Stocks_N_Bondage

Anecdotal tip for what it's worth: Literally EVERY I'm thinking "gosh it's gone up so much should I sell" but then continue with "Nah I should hold cuz more more more!" In every case I should have sold... You won't go broke taking profits. That said: on Oct 5th, PBR broke out of a cup & handle pattern on massive volume. The IBD sell point is 26.50 to 27.50, but also, the IBD guidance on stocks that move this far this fast is to wait 8 weeks... On the other hand you said this is a full port position? And you can sell and have long term cap gains (is it a taxable account?) IMO taking profits by selling 8000 shares (at least) is wise - Monday is likely a pullback for energy stocks... If you sold 10000 shares at $26, you'd have ALL of your original capital back after paying the 15% cap gains tax, and still 208k of a position.

Wnb_Gynocologist69

only IBD

TheInkDon1

I'll take your word on the fundamentals. "Not my bag, baby!" But that's why I like perusing these boards and finding stocks that others recommend. Or starting with something like the IBD Top 50 list and screening for momentum. Check this one out, it's my favorite stock right now: TXG It seems to have good fundamentals, but check for yourself.

TheInkDon1

Yep, you nailed it! I'm just saying that it works about as well as anything else. And to your point about fundamentals, I try to cover that base by choosing to screen stocks that meet most of the IBD CAN SLIM traits. So basically I'm taking someone else's word that the companies in that subset of the market are decent companies. Be good.

TheInkDon1

Thanks, that's a great insight. Personally, I'd be out at a 10% loss and looking for something new, but I think you're saying that it should be a good company and not just a pretty chart. And that's what I was trying to get at by invoking the IBD Top 50. And of course any other vetted stocks/companies. If you start with a universe of quality companies by whatever metrics you prefer, then buying strength has a better chance of doing well for you.

TheInkDon1

Hi, I'm with OP u/Legitimate-Salad-250 on the momentum thing, and I kind of "get" value investing because I have close work friend who is a value investor. So I looked at BRBR because you mentioned it, and from a price performance viewpoint there's no way I'd invest in it right now. I mean, it's done almost nothing but go down over the past 1.5 years. Now, it might be the greatest company ever, but if the price performance isn't there, I just don't see how any investor could put money into it. I guess my question for value investors, and you seem to be sophisticated enough to engage in a dialogue about it, is: *What would be wrong with* ***watching*** *companies you like for valuation reasons, but only* ***investing*** *in them when the price starts going up?* The best of both worlds: good companies with solid fundamentals, plus price momentum. I'm doing something similar by screening companies on the IBD Top 50 list, screening for momentum. Thoughts on that? Thanks.

Melonskal

Are you for real? You should have that checked last month. Could be everything from IBD to cancer.

Primary-Bat-7285

IBD CANSLIM ETF FFTY is up 40% over it's existence while the S&P 500 is up 1,014% over the same time. There is no time period that FFTY has ever outperformed SPY. It's a failed system that is not followed by real investors anymore. As you can see it's digital presence is as antiquated and dysfunctional as it's investing system.

Time-Imagination5870

Tried as well to reach out for some mentoring as started in IBD but will move with rotation to research in 6m and some mentoring would be gold. If you might consider spending 10’ on me, can you please reach out? Seems that you don’t have a message button accessible?

Full_Pear449

SO you missed this on wednesday:[AMD, IBD Stock Of The Day, Gains As Heavyweights Dismiss AI Slowdown](https://www.investors.com/research/ibd-stock-of-the-day/amd-stock-rises-pundits-dismiss-ai-slowdown/) September 16, 2026 AMD is the IBD Stock Of The Day as the chipmaker rises on renewed hopes for continued heavy spending on AI data centers. And the on thursday you apparently missed this:Nebius is charging more for some AMD-powered computing Nebius, which rents out the use of chips from AMD and **Nvidia**, told customers it would soon charge a higher rate. Nebius said that Nvidia GPU prices would increase from 17% to 21%, while AMD's EPYC Genoa CPU rates will increase 25%, while supply constrained memory offerings would see a 41% bump. ANd then you really missed the directional move around 3:30pm wednesday and continuation through thursday. Did buy yesterday and today .Today's was all 9-18 $500 calls - 20x @ $46.00 10:40am,,,,@42 20x 11am then sold all at 3:55Pm @$57.25....Day before just around 11Am 30 @ $43. I love it when no one reads anyhing relevant to the securities they own and think they know it allllllllll.AMEN Thanks for the good week

InnocentSadness

Dude I got this book about IBD can slim method and that's how I got here. Have you heard of it? I'm guessing not if you paid for that subscription, but I've never heard of IBD until I got this book. I'm walking to the bus stop to get to college right now, but if you'll DM me I'll send you a picture of it when I get there?

InnocentSadness

Hey dude I got this IBD can slim book called how to make money on the stock market. Have you heard of it?

fuentescoffee

Worth flagging for anyone reading this as one more store on the pile: Georgia stopped being the market most people still have in their heads about ten weeks ago. SB 220 took effect July 1. The 5% THC cap is gone, replaced by a 12,000mg cumulative possession ceiling, and flower and vaporizers are on the menu for patients 21+ — smoking botanical cannabis is still not permitted, so inhalation is vape-only. Qualifying conditions widened at the same time: lupus, HIV and IBD added, and the "end-stage" limiter stripped from cancer, MS and Parkinson's. That last one is the change most likely to actually move the registry. So a Georgia store opened this month isn't comparable to one opened last year — different basket, different eligible pool. The number I'd want here is same-store growth at the existing Georgia locations since July 1, not the footprint count. One thing that cuts against footprint framing generally: post-rescheduling, licensed independent pharmacies with DEA registration can dispense in Georgia, and Trulieve said on July 1 it was already supplying a dozen-plus. If that channel scales, owned stores stop being a clean proxy for Georgia share.

ChrisFromLongIsland

According to IBD the 2nd downturn actually needs to fall below the first support a little.

CycaI

Awesome, thanks for the info! Will definitely check IBD out. I’ve been an IBD user via the app for news, but no idea you guys also hosted a podcast. Any episodes to start with?

IBDinvestors

Full disclosure, we're IBD, but our Investing with IBD podcast sounds like it could fit what you're looking for. We break down what's happening in the market and why it matters, and regularly bring on professional traders, investors and business leaders to talk strategy and how they approach the market. It's free and new episodes come out every Thursday. Happy to point you toward a few episodes that might be a good starting point if you're interested!

BLU-102

I really can't understand why so many folks buy into trade alert services. Let's say they are really good and when they send an alert, it is timely. For starters, it isn't always going to be a good trade as a perfect setup can lose money too. But, that aside, let's say it's working and over the years you're making money. What will do if they end their service? Also, why do you think the stock is done going up? There are plenty of investors that get into a stock after it hits a new high and still make money off of it. Everyone always makes the, "Buy low sell high" theory sound so easy, but just about everyone I run across never buys stocks during massive corrections and bear markets. Read the book by William J Oneil, the 24 Essential Lessons of Investing. IBD 50 is based on stocks hitting New Highs (NH). He found through years of research and trial and error that there are certain indicators that provide you with the best chance of a stock going up after it hits a NH. However, even he states, like so many other pros that not every setup will be a winning trade. But, your first course of action in my opinion is to stop relying a someone else to tell you when and what stocks to buy. If you are serious about investing and trading, then these are the skills you need to learn. Start with that book, it won't be a waste of your time.

SadExamination5587

I wrote for IBD during 1993-98. They had some excellent journalists aboard then. Problem is, management dumbed things down by instituting that absurd "Flesch Test," making sure there weren't too many words or syllables per sentence. I think the paper declined somewhat as a result of that, though it is still worth reading. As a Warren Buffett/long-position investor, I'm not so sure a subscription would do me all that much good anyway.

Imoldok

IBD

Aromatic-Cold167

I have WSJ and Barrons and find IBD very confusing and no bond coverage at all

osoowl10

I’m glad I saw this post. I was going to sign up for their daily subscription, but after seeing this I will not be signing up. For an industry that thrives on “timing is everything” - the responses from IBD, are unacceptable.

hseeman_sf

IBD top 50 signaling the same thing. Lots of healthcare/biotech in the list. Sector rotation for sure. Not sure there's a good reason for it, other than it being an underperforming sector for last 5 years

Exotic_Article913

This is the difference between IBD and a diversity exec.

music_is_gud

Nostalgic! I love IBD!

guywhosoldyouoptions

Found this old IBD in my attic, let me know if you need any price quotes... https://preview.redd.it/0tyulrdboq7h1.jpeg?width=3000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=40c36229543e0cb9c90f47acb946e464a7489425

Revolutionary-Yak669

If the advisor is not actively seeking (and winning) cost adjusted alpha relative to underlying benchmarks or if that fee is not inclusive of expense ratios it is unequivocally too high. I work for a large IBD and we start account of that size at 1.2 and our advisors are able to negotiate down. The price also waives advisor comp portions of expense ratios, so we typically have a lower expense than holding in a transactional account. Additionally at any risk level and advisor of that tenure should be providing alpha, just due to exposure to the many funds of each category.

Correct-Ganache-2228

A month ago when the screener went down I called in. They said it would be down for 2 weeks. Now I'm reading they don't know. They also have had a bug in their app that I've called in for several times. They don't seem to care about digital. They make a ton of money on their IBD MarketSurge side. I just wish they didn't make it so obvious. Be nice to feel like their was some priority to all members. The bug if you're wondering is the time frame from Daily, Weekly to Intraday in the app has memory PER TICKER. It should be such that if I click daily, they all turn into daily and same with weekly. Each ticker having memory means that as I scroll through, some are at weekly, some are daily and some are intraday. Makes it very unuable. When I brought this up I was literally told they don't worry about their app cuz no one uses it. Well thats silly - maybe fix it and they will use it!

ThinkIn3D

No, no link. This was something I read at least 20 years ago. OK, there was 20 minutes of searching between the last sentence and this one. I could not find anything about Peter Lynch mentioning this practice. But, I did find where it came from. If you search for "William J. O’Neil 7% loss rule" you'll find the source. O'Neil was the founder of IBD and an author, and some of his research led him to conclude a 7-8% drop was the boundary within which "most companies" would rebound. So apparently whatever I read that claimed Lynch said this was completely wrong. Mea culpa. Interestingly, most of the hits nowadays are to Indian investing sites.

twi1i96tr

Sorry but I am going to butt in here with some suggestions.... Eric Smolinski aka esinvests aka "the Outliers" here on Reddit and on Youtube. He's the Real Deal for just good trading advice. For the Wheel check out u/scottishtrader here on Reddit. For day/swing trading the RealDayTrading sub here on Reddit is great but there is a LONG learning curve. Pete Stolcers of OneOption and "Hari" are the main characters and Oneoption does Youtube podcasts and I think Pete might actually have a working crystal ball... ha ha... he is that good. Tastylive/tastytrade on Youtube cover everything you'll EVER want to know about options. IBD (Investors Business Daily) on Youtube have their own successful system that works. Ross Cameron aka Warrior Trading is successful but he is a scalper and it's not easy nor for the faint of heart. For TA see TradeBrigade on Youtube. He is incredible but long winded. Also on Youtube see Peter Reznicek aka Shadow Trader. Good Solid Market Advice. That should keep you busy for the rest of your life! ha ha.... and all of these are FREE!!! One comment of my own... you will find it EXTREMELY difficult to trade and work 7 days/ 90 hours week. Whatever you do... start small - make the smallest trades you can make - and take it slow. Nobody becomes successful without being badly beaten up a few \*or more\* times. Survival depends on you protecting your capital. Best of Luck, Twilighter.

SnS2500

It's a freaking news site, and totally worth the expense for that. The add-ons aren't important and just gravy. And the screener is being upgraded: "The IBD Stock Screener is undergoing an extensive infrastructure upgrade and is temporarily unavailable. We apologize for the inconvenience."

greytoc

Their digital pivot to stay relevant following the dotcom boom has been lackluster. Such a shame they couldn't make it work despite their following and reputation. IBD used to be a premier source for active investors decades ago. I fondly remember reading the daily newspaper every day.

LetsHikeToTheMoon

1. Buy stocks in a definite uptrend that have had a pullback. 2. If you're not successful at stocks def don't try options, you'll get crushed. 3. With the amount you're investing you can probably afford to buy a good maintained watchlist like IBD.com's 250 stock Marketsurge that also comes with other lists. Then put the list or lists into scans to find the right setups.

Stocks_N_Bondage

CEO made some very bullish remarks on IBD early today, and that tipped the scale for me.

parbyte

Today is 17th May. On my side, it is still showing the same: The IBD Stock Screener is undergoing an extensive infrastructure upgrade and is temporarily unavailable. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Much_Sport_3430

Does anyone use the IBD Screener. I am seeing it down from May 5. Every time I access it I get: "The IBD Stock Screener is undergoing an extensive infrastructure upgrade and is temporarily unavailable. We apologize for the inconvenience." Today is May 16 and its still down. Is this just me or anyone else having the same issue?

Stocks_N_Bondage

New company, IPO a few quarters ago... not much to go on, appears to be AI build out related, climate control and cooling, etc... A few things grabbed my interest: chart, funds, and a surprisingly low price to sales for a startup. I should not have listed it first, it's one of the more sketchy ones... IBD EPS rating of 3 (yipe!)

Stocks_N_Bondage

Basically, the IBD EPS and SMR ratings high, accelerating institutional interest, chart has certain technical characteristics I look for. And I sense that a miss is priced in, so the surprise if there is one is probably up.

music_is_gud

Disclaimer: not recommending any method or software I'm gonna talk about below, in no way affiliated with them and honestly some of these are expensive af. I use Marketsurge and IBD for filtering out stocks based on the CAN SLIM method (from Bill O Neil, there is actually a subreddit for this too). It helped me call the exact bottom of the market on April first week when I started buying calls aggressively once I saw a a few follow through days. MU's breakout point was 470 but I bought a little early and the strength of MU pointed me towards DRAM (the corresponding sector etf). Some of my other best calls were MRVL at 104, ARM at 170, AMD at 260.

RandomGuy197680

I run every stock I evaluate through IBD ( Investors business daily). BULL has a relative strength of 18 ( out of 100) which means that 82% of stocks outperform this one. Stocks tend to make big moves when their RS is 85 or higher. At LEAST this is above its DMA's, but it's still pretty weak. On an A to F scale, I give it a C- .

getbentspez

If you have IBD, it’s frequently a violent place

music_is_gud

No, I heard it's expensive. Also I really don't do news-based investing. My investing is primarily CAN SLIM and IBD is all I need for that.

AphexPin

Have you tried Bloomberg? Thanks for the rec on IBD I’ll check it out

music_is_gud

I've tried WSJ too but unsubscribed. If you are interested purely in trading, you can try out IBD (I'm a member of it and love it). They even have a pretty good trial offer for 2 months for you to try out. But it's a different style of investing (CAN SLIM) and is not like a news media and such. As for news, I just use financialjuice. It's free and gives immediately news alerts for most market related events.

The_Mumbowza

Definitely. You’re not alone. And the boring life is great. I still stay heavily informed reading WSJ, Barron’s and IBD religiously, but it’s just for myself and to stay informed and to be come more wise in the world of finance and understanding how an economy and geopolitics work. I read a book called “the psychology of money” that really helped me in my journey. I still sometime sell and buy new stocks. Sometimes even doing same day trades, but I just have to always know that’s money I could lose or that I likely could have made just as much money if I didn’t do squat. Many people never learn, and may people lose everything, so don’t be too hard on yourself.

Legitimate_Treat_762

I've been investing for 30-40 years. I get my info from IBD, Yahoo finance and apple news. As I say that, it sounds lame. I should probably be reading the WSJ or Barrons, but I just don't. If you want to know "What Really Matters", take a look and the DOW JONES 10 year chart. https://www.macrotrends.net/1319/dow-jones-100-year-historical-chart#:\~:text=Combination%20chart%20with%202%20data,End%20of%20interactive%20chart. or, fuggit, look at the 20 year chart. Or the forever chart. Keep this in mind no matter what you do. The market is meant to survive. It will survive. Everyone in power need it to survive. It will. Bank on that. Period.

jhonnylasagna

Ok, here’s the “textbook.” [How To Find and Own America’s Greatest Opportunities by William J O’Neil](https://s3-us-east-2.amazonaws.com/marderreport/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/27210903/IBD_AmericaGreatestOpportunity1.pdf)

Vast-Mistake-256

I use MarketSurge by IBD.

Wide_Air_4702

I saw them being promoted as buys on places like IBD before they appeared on Reddit.

Path2Profit

Anytime! And there is a lot of tools you can do the same as IBD today world there’s countless screeners and charting software

1UpUrBum

You don't need to pay for IBD. Just go to their website and youtube look at their daily and weekly info. They have tons of it. And tell you all about it.

Kevin_gato

Hi, now I’m watching it but this is the best summary of CANSLIM and also mindset too. I completely agree with what he said and all I want to figure out is how I can do same routine as him. Like he mentioned Merketsurge and IBD and Excel but since I never subscribed two of them, I have to look into it. But I get the whole point. Get your routine, making checklists, put alerts, journal and tracking and discipline. Keep doing same thing and become a specialist in CANSLIM. Understand the pros and cons of the method and keep doing it. I think I’ll watch this interview again and again. Thank you so much.

kenzi28

It does well in strong trending markets. However in choppy markets, well, one gets chopped up by fake breakouts and breakdowns. There is an IBD50 etf. Look at its chart and you'll see you still need to pick the correct stock(s) in the 50 top dogs to do well. Buying all 50 of them doesn't work.

twi1i96tr

How make money in Stocks - a FANTASTIC book but no need to buy it. It's IBD... Investors Business Daily. Mike Webster, Bill O'Neils right hand man for years and years and years is on Youtube almost Daily. There are a few of them that do Youtube videos daily and they, especially "Webbie" are a bit long winded but if you become a persistent dedicated viewer you will learn all you will EVERY need to know about investing and MAKING MONEY in the stock market. Best of Luck... Twilighter

Wide_Air_4702

I watch some 200+ stocks for entry points. IBD is a good read for stock ideas.

helpfromtheboys

World leading IBD treatment, oral therapy is the next big thing in managing that disease. Likely to get bought by a big player. Fantastic company

Stocks_N_Bondage

Chart's been broken for a month and a half, IBD comp score dropped to 56, decelerating earnings growth, distribution by funds. Look at how many gap downs there have been in the last 6 weeks, and the PE is still 87? And they're software, which is so passé ...

RandomGuy197680

VRT. It has the strongest ratings on IBD of any stock I've ever seen. Just bought some today.

creemeeseason

From IBD: "Notably, electrophysiology sales grew 35%, but came in 5% below expectations, Evercore ISI analyst Vijay Kumar said in a report. Boston's electrophysiology tools treat abnormal heart rhythm."

Stocks_N_Bondage

IMO, start with IBD—Read *"How to Make Money in Stocks"* by William O'Neil. It is foundational for finding stocks that make big runs. Mark Minervini's books are good as well, he's a disciple of O'Neil. The most important thing to learn, and the hardest, is risk management. Trading is about risk management more than anything else.

investinreddit-

You're really good at this. I am trading alot of rare earth, green metals, and nuclear stocks lately - not up as high as you but up 31.22% this month, or YTD I guess. Quantum - do you trade (sorry hold) $qbts, $ionq, $rgti,$qubt? Semiconductors - list is endless but Nvidia, TSM$, broadcom, arm holdings, and affiliated ASML? Space - $asts, $rklb, $lunr ? (I hace planet labs from $5) (I own spacex in a private investment through SoFI - at least I think I do ; ) Photonics -$coherent (Even subscription companies have been pushing this one like IBD for a long time) , Marvel technology?$ipgp? Good stuff my friend. I probably won't chase your stocks but fun to check them out on a list.

Stocks_N_Bondage

Here's the insider information: **crypto is garbage**. Try trading growth stocks, where you can predict institutional buying based on well understood factors like sales and earnings growth. If you are trying to trade crypto, then u gambol! Aie ya! Wanna make money? Read the book "How to Make Money in Stocks" by O'Neil, and read IBD daily. For reference: my port is up 7.88% today, and 43.89% since January 1st.

Wide_Air_4702

Stocktwits, MarketWatch, Barron's, IBD, and a few Substack reads.

BellyFullOfMochi

You could just get a subscription to IBD, read some investing and trading books and do this yourself instead of trusting Reddit

Effyew4t5

First lesson - buying and selling options is not investing or trading, it’s gambling 2. Investing can be win-win. Options are always win-lose 3 in options you are playing against professionals 4 trading is trading, not investing 5 it’s expensive to learn how to gamble, trade or invest successfully 6 anyone can make money in a bull market for a while 7 buying stock is the easy part - knowing when to sell is much more difficult 8 stay off margin unless you really know what you’re doing and are closely following macro trends 9 bad stuff can happen at any time There are probably many more but these come to me at the moment In my 30s I thought I knew what I was doing. Buying options, using margin, setting goals etc. took a couple thousand to $1.6M Went for a ski week in Utah (before good internet) and lost 90% over a couple days when I couldn’t reach broker to sell. Got margin calls, executed options etc. felt horrible as I was almost married, had mortgage, kids etc Started over because stocks are really the only way for average person to generate some wealth Read books, subscribed to WSJ and IBD. Learned more, made some, lost some. Finally accumulated a bit ($2M) in my 50s and then turned it over to professional at M/S telling them that while I expected decent returns in good markets, I am really paying them to not lose much in bad times Now in my early 70s I have $7M and retirement has been fantastic

OverheadPress69

1. Get a birds-eye view of the company. What does the company do? How do they make their money? What sector are they in? Tailwinds/headwinds in the industry? Who is the CEO? What is current sentiment? What direction is the business going and what stage in the business cycle is it at currently? 2. Look a little deeper into the fundamentals of the stock. I personally look at: market cap, revenue growth, profit margin, margin growth, book value, forward PE, EPS, debt, FCF, revenue/margins of each of the business’ market sectors (ie Amazon’s retail financials and their AWS financials). I am personally looking for two things here — 1, proof of growth potential and 2, disqualification. If any of these numbers are red flags based on my understanding established in the first step, I move on or dig deeper depending on the company. Basically, you want to see profitability, growth potential, and the ability to survive if something goes wrong. 3. Look below the hood. This can often tell you more than anything else. Are there share buybacks going on? What is the dividend history? What is the short ratio? What level of institutional investment is there? What are industry analysts’ price targets? Are there any catalysts on the horizon? Potential regulatory hurdles? Is the industry faring well? Who are the primary competitors? What is the company’s position in the industry? How can they grow/maintain market share? Who are the business’ customers? Are they stable? Is there a backlog? What about their suppliers? Are they sensitive to interest rates, commodity prices, consumer sentiment, etc.? Is their success dependent on another company? Is a M&A angle in play? What ETFs are the company included in, how is the fund performing, and will it be added to the DJIA/S&P500/QQQ etc. in the near future? 4. Look at the stock’s price. Compare to 52w high and low. Compare to ATH & ATL. Look at volume patterns. See if there is a base of support in the chart or resistance spots. Compare to the chart of similar companies. Compare to the S&P500. Looking for momentum & support levels; I’m a believer in time in the market, so this step is primarily to determine position sizing, if I’ll be DCAing or lump buying, etc. 5. Check out different sources to see if anyone has information you missed. I personally start on Reddit, then use some combination of YouTube, Yahoo! Finance, Morningstar, Moody’s, IBD, Bloomberg, WSJ, & CNBC. 6. Look at your portfolio. How would this stock change its composition? Does it improve your expected returns? Add/reduce volatility? Affect the Sharpe ratio? What sizing should you use? Does it improve diversification? Is it redundant? What is the r/r to adding it? What is the opportunity cost of tying up money in this stock? 7. At this point, you should have a really solid feel for the business. You should know whether you want to buy or not. If you do, pull the trigger now. You have done the research. Trust yourself. If you don’t, put it on the watchlist, and note why you didn’t buy. If something materially changes, it may become a good investment. 8. Come up with your thesis. Why are you buying, what are the exit strategies, what will you do to mitigate risk. Plan for a worst case, best case, and base case scenario. None of this requires advanced quant analysis, specialized data or tools, or anything more than about an hour of your time. I research 2-3 stocks per day. I have a running list of 1000+ stocks sorted by industry & market cap within the industry. I only launch this process if I want to buy. It’s worked well for me. You don’t need to spend too much time on any one step, but unsatisfactory results for any of the steps disqualifies it from investment in my strategy. You should at least consider each of the factors I’ve listed, though you don’t have to go down the list like a checklist. Use your brain, not your heart. Most importantly, write things down. Anything you feel may be important. Start a fresh sheet of paper/new document for your notes and findings while you’re researching each stock and then save it in a folder regardless of if you buy or not. You’ll very quickly build up a reference library of DD that you can return to for many reasons. Perhaps to invest in the future if the situation changes, perhaps to look back at successes and see what led to the success, perhaps to look back and see where you erred in logic if a stock doesn’t meet your expectations. Information is power. The more you do this (and not rely on others) the more confident you’ll be in your ability to analyze a stock. I’m at the point where I don’t really care what anyone else says about a stock if I’ve researched it and formed an opinion. I trust my ability more than anyone else’s, and you will too. Trust me. Dm if you’d like more info/guidance

Stocks_N_Bondage

Huh... it's on the IBD growth 250 list... but the thing I find interesting is that Jabil, Flex, and a couple others started their sellof right at 10am, then the rest of the AI/tech started selling off right at 10:30am. Like clockwork.

GoodBugMessenger

Ah yes the ol IBD 7% loss rule. This was part of the first investing framework I used when I got into stocks in the 90s. This strategy works really well in Bull markets. Stops you from holding on to losers while there are better stocks out there going up.  The approach becomes very problematic in choppy or bearish markets as you will almost never succeed in buying a stock within 7% of the bottom and will consistently get shaken out of fantastic buying opportunities.

jhonnylasagna

The single most valuable thing to know, in my opinion, based on my 30 year’s experience of playing the markets, is to trade or invest based on rules, NOT emotion. Trade based on data-driven rules, not emotional guesswork. Emotion is the kiss of death in trading. So, for example, my Number 1 rule is to cut losses short. Very important! Typically I set a stop loss at -8% below my buy price or I keep a mental stop loss at -8% if paying close attention to the trade in real time. When that threshold is hit I sell, no questions asked. Because an -8% loss can quickly turn into a -20% loss, which can turn to a -50% loss very quickly, if you allow it. Suddenly you’re down -50%, which then means you need a +100% gain just to break even. If the stock goes higher after I get shaken out by stop loss, and it looks bullish after all, I can always buy it back. You can always buy it back. That is in your power to control. But you can’t ever make or force a stock to go back to your break even price if you allow a loss to balloon. Even if I buy back at a slightly higher price, that’s ok. I then consider the slight loss of -8% the cost of insurance. Many times a stop loss like that will save you from suffering huge losses. The more volatile the stock, however, the easier it is to get shaken out in wild swings. It can happen in seconds right after you buy. But the corollary to that is you can also suffer a huge losses in minutes if you have no sell plan. Don’t hold big losses hoping to get back to even. If the stock is failing to perform relative the general market, then there is probably a good reason. And so it’s unreasonable to expect to make a +100% gain from a loser stock you have a -50% loss on. It’s more likely you’ll recoup your loss by selling and buying a better performing stock showing a bullish, positive uptrend, then you will by continuing to hold a loser. You also must factor into the equation the high price of opportunity cost. Foolish people will sometimes hold onto a losing position for six months or a year or whatever, hoping to break even. But meanwhile, all sorts of other great stocks are ripping higher and leading the market higher. By holding a loser, a person misses out on those gains. So the loss is two fold; the decline in the stock’s price they’re holding and also the opportunities they missed out on while continuing to hold onto a losing stock. Look into the free content offered online by Investor’s Business Daily. It’s extremely valuable and profitable. Study chart reading and technical analysis. IBD offers short primer articles on reading chart patterns like Cup and Handle, Double Bottom, Bull Flags or High Tight Flags. Develop your own set of rules to trade by based on that. Linked below is William O’Neil’s commentary and detailed explanation of 75 of his greatest trades. O’Neil founded IBD. [How to Find and Own America’s Greatest Opportunities](https://s3-us-east-2.amazonaws.com/marderreport/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/27210903/IBD_AmericaGreatestOpportunity1.pdf)

34Baseyball

Be careful, it is up 90%+ this year, but they just issued 54.5 million new shares in new stock issuance at $27.50, totally diluting existing shares. Short term drop, enough to make nice profit 📈 off of dip, which started Friday, down 6% after-hours, all I need. https://www.investors.com/news/technology/sofi-stock-public-offering-shares-fall/#:~:text=SoFi%20(SOFI)%20fell%20Friday%20on,ago%2C%20according%20to%20IBD%20MarketSurge.

looool_k_libtard

Makes genuinely no sense. They’re been consistently on IBD top 50 companies, PE is like..13 now. Pretty insane reaction this past month after finally breaking out.

bushmeat3000

Who wants to do a call on an IBD Top 50 stock with a couple and handle?

looool_k_libtard

Cleanspark took a giant shit on my life this week. Top 50 IBD company my ass.

jhonnylasagna

Start by searching key terms I mentioned. VWAP. Level 2 market data. Those are a bit advanced for beginners and might come later in your journey. To start from the very beginning, I would suggest looking into the free offerings online from Investor’s Business Daily. They offer paid services, but also free articles. Market Surge is the IBD chart service that is a paid service; to give some idea of the quality of IBD, Mark Newton of Fundstrat, one of the best and most respected technical analysts in the US, uses Market Surge. You can watch free online videos from Mike Webster, who was the protege of the founder of IBD, William O’Neil. IBD is where I started 30 years ago and I still rely on lessons learned from IBD. It’s been very helpful and effective. O’Neil also authored a simple to read, but highly informative book on investing you can look for. IBD is all about technical analysis and chart reading. They have free online articles that teach you how to read charts and recognize chart patterns that offer high probability set ups to trade or invest. Patterns like the Cup and Handle and Double Bottom, and others. You can access free high quality charts at StockCharts.com. You can customize the charts, but the best customizations like daily charts with 5 minute intervals are a paid service. I trade with Schwab and they have a free app service for account holders called ThinkOrSwim that offers five minute candlestick charts.

PixiePower65

It’s was an IBD podcast in the last month. Think a Wednesday show one of their special guests. Will see if I can figure it out.

Stocks_N_Bondage

Huh? I've looked at her portfolio. Nothing special, so who cares? It's a basket of the most milquetoast growth stocks that anyone with an IBD subscription probably owns. Whatever.

Jazzlike-Lion2969

So, we are talking about the last few weeks. Not the whole year. Just current market 3 weeks. IBD has been pointing out the negative breath in the big picture lately. I’ve seen it in my account. Nothing to lie about? I’m down 14% in 3 weeks.not feelings or lies? I’ve had a great 3 years. We are due for a pullback. I’ve been trading since 1994. Been through a few cycles. I traded during dotcom. And Ai feels that way.  I don’t know your history. 

Icy-Sprinkles-6964

You can say that, but added few more details. Lol, Just now Luke-Grice-Lowe (Director of IBD at Multisensor AI) accepted my LinkedIn connection request. Do you guys want me to ask some insider info🤣? https://preview.redd.it/niek52fiosxf1.jpeg?width=1320&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=29006441213a95e6b85c31ca007182422d034e65

D_Pablo67

I am a member of the American Association of Individual Investors, which has a great investor education website, including model portfolios by investing style. Any trading platform should give you access to research and allow you to set up screens. I read research reports from Bank of America, CFRA and Morningstar. I read Yahoo Finance, Bloomberg, Zack’s and IBD.

BLISSING_ALWAYS

“My” advice is the advice of William O’Neill, founder of Investors Business Daily! investors . com   The 5% rule!!!  If you don’t know who William O’Neill is, check out IBD or his books. William ONeil remains a giant in his field.  Lucent was an awesome company for years and years, unlike Enron. Their R&D made Lucent into a TRUE giant. A change in leadership killed them.  I know people who owned Lucent for years as it rose and rose, but then they also continued to hold - and held on til the bitter end, hoping it would recover its former glory.  “Countless studies” are for generic average joes who don’t want to self-educate, paper trade, and pay attention to the market, or who don’t have the temperament or the time for it. Education is key! And it can be time consuming if you don’t have a mentor who has stayed safe and profitable over crashes as well as booms, plural, and over the decades.  Another market truth is that you have to trade your personality. You can’t throw your money into a boglehead investment fund and ignore it for years if you’re an extremely ambitious &/or extremely (ironically) risk-averse, nervous day trader - nor vice versa. Otherwise you’re endlessly fighting yourself; you end up fighting your own nature. Those who say you can’t time the markets are just plain wrong. I used to hang out with traders. Charlie Manning posted trades publicly on the internet every day for a year or something and only broke his winning streak a day or two before his wedding day, lol - nuptial jitters!  Know thy self! Cheers to all! Love to all! ❤️🙏❤️

Stocks_N_Bondage

I mostly use ThinkorSwim. I also use ZenBot, and I use MarketSurge, IBD, and some AI platforms.

ViProCon

Just seeing this now, with 221 comments already posted so I'm sure there's lots said. But my 2 cents is that I bought shares of TMQ,.....JUST as it was at its height somewhere in the 10.50-ish range. Now a week later the damn thing is like 50% declined. Un-f-ing real. I didn't think to put stops, figured this would likely be a keeper. It still will be once the overall metals market recovers, but it is abosultey a sh\*t show for metals right now. No clue what USAR was doing the other day but it went pretty high for a bit, yesterday. Also, the AI bubble has popped too it feels like. I have like . Maybe a minor thing but I have about 15 positions in various stocks that are not NVDA and the usual suspects. I'm into NBIS, IREN, MP, APLD, BITF, among others. Every single one of them is 5-20% down since I bought. There's nothing about the AI market right now that's any bit good IMHO. I imagine this will reverse, but fuzz. Also I'm into quantum a bit - every single one of those positions is way down. IONQ for example. Very peculiar the Seeking Alpha, Benzinga, IBD etc. are not saying much about this.

BLISSING_ALWAYS

Learn all about automated stop-loss orders! How to use them optimally is a study in itself - a very profitable one!!   Learn how to place trailing stop orders. Refuse to lose any more than 5% MAX - William O’Neil’s classic IBD advice - and Chris Manning’s, too, if I recall correctly.  Maybe set the stop-loss at less than 5% if it’s a high price-per-share of stock. Don’t place the stop at round numbers. Don’t worry about market makers manipulating the price moves to shake you out of your trade on purpose. Your live-to-trade-another-day safety is what’s most important! But don’t be oblivious to market makers shenanigans, either.  There’s so much good stuff to learn to keep your cash safe.  Btw, automated stop-losses apparently work best in the futures markets…which is super-liquid.  A profitable trader I met told me he considered his entire job to be “risk management”!! P.S. Probably bad advice, here, lol. Ignore me!😂😃🤣😅

SoCal_IrieGuy

Maybe Im old school but I like to read IBD of course now I do it on the app.

Stocks_N_Bondage

LOL. Their gross margins were NEGATIVE previous quarter, this quarter an abysmal 11%, but more importantly, NET margins are decidedly negative: pre-tax margin is a -41%. That means they are losing money by the bucketfulls. The alpha is -0.7, the book value is 9 cents, the cash flow is negative and IBD rates them as a 1, the literal lowest possible score. Sales fell 20%, and have been plummeting every quarter. Debt to capital is 214. **OMG.** Don't tell me "how it works" Poindexter. The company is trash.

gamjatang111

I entered the workforce in 2012 on the IBD team at GS in Canada. It was absolutely the best of times, deals flying left and right.

SensitiveVisit2087

$APP The SEC has not accused AppLovin of committing any violations, the report said. AppLovin, which helps mobile app developers find users and sell advertising in their apps, has seen its shares surge this year on booming sales and earnings. AppLovin stock hit a record high of 745.61 on Sept. 29. However, on the stock market today, AppLovin tumbled 14% to close at 587. Earlier in the day, Wedbush Securities analyst Alicia Reese reiterated her outperform rating on AppLovin stock and raised her price target to 745 from 725. Reese expressed confidence that AppLovin can continue its heady growth as it rolls out new services for advertisers and app developers. AppLovin stock is on four IBD lists: IBD 50, Big Cap 20, Leaderboard and Tech Leaders. Follow Patrick Seitz on X at @IBD_PSeitz for more stories on consumer technology, software and

gmnotyet

The fuck happened to Dutch Brothers? They were IBD's Growth Stock of the Day a few weeks ago.

K-Uno

IBD? Whats that?

Grouchy-Dot2891

Man I saw this stock as #1 on IBD and I'm like IREN huh, $26. Not bad. Now it's double like a month later.

TheInkDon1

Well, you can feel the way you feel, but I don't think you're looking at it quite correctly. I don't know how you invest, but do you buy stocks? I'll assume that you do, or have. Call options are just a cheaper way to 'own' shares. Not OWN, but rent, for the cost of the theta/extrinsic value in the Call you buy. And because the Call is so much cheaper than shares, you get a great deal of leverage. And what's the downside? The loss of the whole cost of the Call. But you won't let it come to that, because you'll monitor every week and sell the Call at half, or at some point you set for yourself. Do you use a stop-loss for shares? If you're familiar with that concept, you can translate that number, the dollar loss you'd be willing to take on shares, and close the Call if it dips that much. And the gains aren't linear: they're multiplied by the leverage of the Call at any point in time: Spot divided by Call price, then multiplied by Delta. For a **GLD** Call at 360DTE and 80-delta, that's a **leverage factor of 6.5.** *It's worth taking* ***some*** *risk for that kind of multiplier.* And when to get out after making a profit is easy: whenever you want to. At whatever profit percentage you set for yourself. But as long as the stock is going up, and therefore the value of the Call is increasing, why get out? I hold them till the stock's price starts to roll over. With ETFs that's easy to see on a weekly or monthly time scale, and ETFs don't drop quickly like individual stocks do. And if you think the price of a 1y Call is too high, okay: come in to 100-120 days. Based on experience I'd made a rule for myself to stop selling inside 3 months. Then someone here mentioned the 100-120DTE thing. After doing some research, and because it fit my own experience, I've adopted that for some of my trades. So then, for GLD the price of the Call comes down from $42.68 at 360DTE to just 27.90 at 115DTE. And that's just 8% of GLD's $346 current price. Are you familiar with Investor's Business Daily? They recommend selling a stock if it drops 8% from where you bought it. So look at that: buying that 115DTE Call for just 8% of GLD's price is a built-in stop loss. If GLD drops enough to make the Call worthless, you've only lost 8%, which is what IBD recommends as a stop-loss point. There's a lot to recommend deep-ish ITM Calls a few months out or more.

nonchalant450

I have been a member of MPA for multiple years, and his MPA membership is way toooooo expensive for what it is in my opinion. And there is a wide spread expressions by the members and the previous members of MPA saying that he is front running, selling into strength of his picks when the stock prices spike after his and then his members' buys shortly after the platform's recommendations. I think many believe that this happens because of the platform's liking for small and mid cap stocks which have smaller floats. They really should institute a "minimum wait time" requirement like the IBD's 30 minute wait time requirement before the owner and the employees' of MPA can buy the stocks that they had just recommended. But perhaps more importantly, their performance in the last couple of years or so has been dismal: their Select Portfolio is down by a high single digit percentage since 4/24 while the indices produced huge returns. Why pay soooo much money, work so hard going in and out of stocks, lose sleep, and lose money when you can sit, and do nothing indexing????? Trying to climb out of a hole by following their picks also fighting the reverse compounding effect including on the many thousands of dollars paid in fees paid to MPA would be a very tall order in my opinion.

PixiePower65

I have really appreciated IBD It’s a real time class. Morning and 4:00. They break down market individual stocks. Access to their resources. They run a portfolio- send you noticed on when they enter /exit/ trim Both positional and their specialty Swing Trading . Both growth strategies and conservative methods. Can find them on you tube to start. Yep it’s their pitch. It’s free but you still learn. Then they have products. Has seriously paid for itself.

Walking72

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songbird516

Yes, we have a house/mortgage but no other debt. We do pay a little extra on the mortgage, but current finances didn't allow for much savings, and we don't want to take this windfall and put it all on the mortgage. I appreciate your time to write that out, and will add IBD to my watch list.

twi1i96tr

Hello... My first question is do you have/own a principle residence? If not... buy a house. Whether you own or are renting you are paying a mortgage. When you rent you pay the landlord's mortgage. When you own you pay your own mortgage. Second question is "If you have a principle residence"... is the mortgage paid off? If you have a mortgage pay it off before you do anything else. Once you own a home and are mortgage free your financial life will change forever. If that's not for you look at buying good dividend paying stocks and maybe a DRIPS program rather than spending the dividends. Diversify to AT LEAST 4 stocks but make sure they are stable companies that pay dividends. And don't make the mistake of just looking at the dividends. Companies that pay too high a dividend are mostly risky. Look at the long term financial stability of the company first. If you want to manage your own money I would highly recommend you watch IBD (Investors Business Daily) on Youtube and learn about their CANSLIM strategy. Also take a look at what Warren Buffet buys. It works for him. Best of Luck.. Twilighter.

Straight-Annual8687

RIGL was added to the IBD50 list EOD yesterday. Long term bullish event. Money should move to small cap after nvda results. Today, low volume, low float, company is very solid with profits, cash, pipeline, partners, and trading with a low PE that can triple or more just to get with sector average. RIGL will easily survive on its own, but more likely a $2B-$3B acquisition target which would blow the stock out to about $150. I'm holding long on this one - it'll dip and bob and weave but the finish line is going to be fantastic

cbusoh66

GOOG is going to rocket on the ruling because all indications point to a simple slap on the wrist. https://www.investors.com/news/technology/google-stock-wall-street-awaits-judges-ruling-on-remedies-in-search-antitrust-case/ >"There's a sizable menu of options for him to choose from," William Kovacic, a professor at George Washington University Law School, told IBD. Kovacic served as Federal Trade Commission chairman in the George W. Bush administration. >"I suspect that he will be inclined to do more than simply issue an injunction that says Google must discontinue harmful behavior," Kovacic added. "**In his original decision Judge Mehta said Google has done some valuable things for the economy and for individual consumers. So I think he's wary of a form of intervention that would disable Google from being an effective competitive force in the future**."

MyndexResearch

TGT is at $104.9, definitely room to go down. Its P/E is 13, but its 5 year P/E low is 10, so it could easily drop 30% and still be within its recent PE range. And don't forget, earnings could miraculously go up, but guidance goes down, so the stock sinks yet maintains P/E... P/E is a terrible guide! ## *"Crazy low"* means something is *"crazy wrong"*. TGT's sales are crap, earnings are crap, RS is crap, negative growth, A/D is crap, and the IBD comp rating is a crap-tastic 10. Funds own 45%, so there's room for funds to dump shares straight into the abyss. If it doesn't hold above the support at 88, next down is about 71-ish. It's barely above the April lows. But this is not a full opinion, I need to see how the week plays out. Rn, its chart looks weird. But at the moment, I'm thinking puts.

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