I go to Investorweb for a glance but that does not always help.A...

I go to Investorweb for a glance but that does not always help.A stock that goes up 25% in a day is not as good as one that goes up 5% everyday for 5 days.The first stock will probably drop back and you will buy at the top,the second you have a chance of getting in and riding a rise in the trend.I mention trend because if you are picking stocks that are not in trends your hard earned savings will vanish.My data and software can look back over any period and show the best performers;from this it does not take long to see the reason they performed well.Of course a program to search for these patterns is essential.Another method for those that refuse to spend money on software is to read in the paper stocks making new 52 week highs,look at their charts on commsec or whatever,take a pick,and your chances have improved a thousand fold over sitting in the dark broomcupboard.There are of course much more specific and successfull stockpicking systems.