{"id":14618,"date":"2012-09-06T09:03:49","date_gmt":"2012-09-06T13:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/?p=14618"},"modified":"2012-09-06T09:23:48","modified_gmt":"2012-09-06T13:23:48","slug":"how-to-find-momentum-stocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/?p=14618","title":{"rendered":"How to find momentum stocks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Drop everything and watch this.<\/strong><\/span> I don’t care if you vote Republican, Democrat or don’t vote. John Oliver’s explanation of “change” will have you rolling on the floor. Click here.<\/a><\/strong> It’s the best piece to come out of both conventions.<\/p>\n

You can charge an iPad from a computer’s USB port.<\/span> <\/strong>Plug the iPad in, It will say “not charging.” Then power it down. Push the top button until the red Power off slide switch comes on. Slide it off and come back in a couple of hours. Bingo, it will fully charged.<\/p>\n

Top gainers and losers for 2012? <\/strong>Here’s the list:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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The “logic” here is that stocks that go up tend to keep going up. This is called momentum investing. Combined with a fundamental analysis of the company, you could luck out.<\/p>\n

I am not recommending any of these stocks. I’m publishing this list because I can. I’ve been agonizing on how to create such a list. Every financial web site in the world has yesterday’s top gainers and losers. Blind Freddie can find that list on Yahoo Finance, Bloomberg, etc. But not this. For this you need to go to Fidelity, Research, Stock Screeners and Price Performance this year. To get this chart, I limited it to the highest 20% in the market with market cap over $1.16 billion.<\/p>\n

Other criteria Fidelity gives you are:<\/p>\n

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As far as I can see, the Fidelity service is free, though I do have an on-line trading account with them called Active Trader Pro, which does an admirable job and which I prefer over accounts I have with other brokers.<\/p>\n

Latest favorite New Yorker cartoons:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Harry Newton who doesn’t understand why ED (Con Edison) is falling. Finding out why will be one of today’s chores. If no ogical explanation (interest rates?), it may be time to dump it — though I do like its 4% yield and total lack of exposure to Europe.<\/p>\n

This piece is worth reading. It’s from the latest issue of the New Yorker:<\/p>\n

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The word covered up by the black blotch is “weak.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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