Sound the Alarm! (Check Out This Chart ASAP) Editor's Note: Mark your calendars, Trade of the Day readers. You're not going to want to miss a special investing event from our friends at The Oxford Club. Their Chief Investment Strategist Alexander Green is hosting a brand-new training series, The Three Great Secrets for Breakout Profits. Alex will be going LIVE on Wednesday, December 15, to share the BIGGEST secrets behind his most profitable wins. Best of all? It's completely FREE. You'll even have the opportunity to ask Alex your urgent questions using the live chat function. Simply click here to register. And in today's Trade of the Day, Alex shares his insights on how you can follow the smart money to profits.
Alexander Green, Chief Investment Strategist, The Oxford Club People admire history's greatest innovators: Benjamin Franklin, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Edison, the Wright brothers, Steve Jobs. Few of us are great innovators ourselves, however. So it doesn't make a lot of sense to try to create a novel investment system - or some entirely new method of securities analysis. It's far more lucrative - and much less trouble - to shamelessly clone the best ideas of others. Let me give you a few examples... In my previous life as a portfolio manager, I regularly studied the top investment holdings of the nation's top equity fund managers. (They are required to report them each quarter in their 13F filings.) I would search for ideas that overlapped and then work backward to see what made these companies so exceptional that the best managers in the country were avidly buying them. I picked up a ton of big winners this way. Over the years, I copied and refined my own trading systems. One is geared toward momentum stocks. I read the books and research of William O'Neil - founder of the famous CANSLIM system - and pored over every issue of his paper, Investor's Business Daily. Every technique he recommended that worked, I kept. Every one that didn't, I rejected. Or at least modified. (For example, O'Neil recommends that you sell any stock that goes against you by 7% or 8%. But that's too tight a stop - and will cause you to stop out so often that you feel like you're spinning your wheels.) Thirty years ago, I also learned to ride the coattails of knowledgeable insiders. I bought the same stocks as corporate officers and directors who possess plenty of material, nonpublic information. I didn't invent momentum trading. And I wasn't the first to closely monitor insider buying. I just took these good ideas, tested them exhaustively, and kept tweaking them to obtain better and better results. This happens all the time in the world of business. |
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