Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Investopedia: You Can't Follow Everything


There are over 5,000 listed companies in the United States. If it takes even just one hour to learn all that really matters about a company, that means somebody would have to work more than 13 hours a day, every day of the year, to know a little bit about everything. Even then, such a perfunctory level of knowledge is hardly useful to an investor interested in fundamentals, and a buy or sell decision based upon it is nearly guessing.


How then does an investor cast the net wide enough to not miss out on great opportunities, but keep the workload to a manageable level?


Read the full article at the link below:
http://www.investopedia.com/articles/stocks/11/figuring-out-which-stocks-follow.asp

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