valuemind, whenever I look at a stock...I try to come up with a fair value target based on many criteria (earnings, balance sheet, growth, etc). Obviously I'm a buyer if the stock appears undervalued at its current price. If I'm lucky enough to have a stock then rise to what I perceive as fair value, I will start locking in profits. I take profits relentlessly. Even though I timed CTIG well, I usually end up selling WAY too soon.
I certainly hope you wouldn't buy a stock mentioned on this or any other message board without doing your own DD. I think the most you can ask for on a board like this is some ideas on what stocks people think will go up (and hopefully why)...then it's up to you to research them. I get a lot of leads here since most of us are focused on microcaps with fundamentals. I remember the dark days of reading through hundreds of posts on Niz's board...to find one solid pick that required further study.
I'm a short-term investor. Earnings plays are my favorites. I try to anticpate what a company's numbers will look like based on what they did last quarter, the guidance, the comp from last year, etc. So I've been posting a little more recently as I think there could be some good ones coming up.
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