To pick winning stocks, you need the tools to separate the companies with
superior sales and profit growth from the ones who are just making a lot of
noise. Besides choosing the right companies to invest in, you must learn how
to read the market's trend so that your timing is right.

And picking the next big winner based on the news is not as likely as
picking the next big loser. The news media's time-frame is usually very
short, sometimes just that particular day!

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