Investor’s Business Daily is designed as a ‘net’ to catch stocks that display characteristics of big winners. It’s the optimal way savvy investors fish for the best stocks.

In the 1960’s IBD founder William J. O’Neil began researching past big winners, going back to the 1880’s. He found traits they shared before their huge price gains. Based on his findings he designed buy and sell rules to give anyone the best chance to make money in stocks. Now with decades of additional market data, the system is even more complete, and continues to be updated.

We want to share with you a 3-Step Timesaving Routine to give you superior results using IBD. The routine is summarized in the paper on page B9 or B13.

1. Market Direction (trade in synch with the market trend)

2. Stock Ideas (find great growth stocks)

3. Validate (review best candidates)

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1) MARKET DIRECTION

Most stocks move in synch with the general market indices. You should only buy stocks during an uptrend. A market correction is time to raise cash.

How can you time the market to enter and exit successfully?

• Use The Big Picture daily column. (IBD page B2, B4 or B6). For tips click here .
• View IBD’s nightly Market Wrap in IBD TV .

2) STOCK IDEAS

IBD filters thousands of stocks to bring you leaders with the best growth potential:

• IBD 50 (Monday & Wednesday), IBD Big Cap 20 (Tuesday), Your Weekly Review (Friday). Captions below each stock chart provide technical analysis including chart patterns and buy points (ie ‘cup-with-handle with 51.60 buy point’)
• Find high-grade stocks with IBD’s Stock Spotlight (formerly Stocks In The News).
• Use IBD Stock Research Tables to find potentially powerful stocks.
•  IBD Screen Center at Investors.com contains several lists of highly rated stocks. Categories include Tech Leaders and International Leaders.

3) VALIDATE

Validate your top candidates with Investors.com online research tools: Quote Page and Stock Checkup .

Type the ticker symbol in the Enter Symbol/Keyword box Select ‘Get Quote’ and click the button to the far right To see a description of any IBD rating, hover your cursor over it From the Quote Page access more detail by clicking Get Stock Checkup Don’t overlook the stock chart! It’s your best tool to determine when to buy or sell. You want to buy as the stock clears resistance on strong volume To track a stock add it to My Stock Lists

Investor’s Education

To learn more, see IBD’s free online modules. especially Charting The Course and Sell Signal for tips on timing your buys and sells To view IBD’s system in action view the Daily Stock Analysis archives For descriptions of the ratings and symbols used in IBD, turn to How to Use IBD Tables & Ratings on page B5 or B9 in the paper Stock Do’s and Don’t has great investing tips, featured daily on page B5 or B9 IBD Community connects you to like-minded investors via live Meetup groups and online Forums