Other people buy stocks based on rumors that the price will rise/fall sharply soon. Many experienced traders watch financial news on TV, read the relevant newspaper stories, and investigate companies that are in the news. They also use "technical indicators," which are numbers or graphs which may help indicate whether a stock will rise, fall, or stay the same. A few people will randomly pick stock symbols by throwing a dart at a newspaper, for instance.
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