@willyhill there are lots of ways to find good stocks and there's been a couple of suggestions already. You can try to find them before they run, looking for reversal signals, or you can try to find ones that are already trending and join the wave. Either way there are skills/techniques involved to find them and trade them so you will need to decide which way you want to roll and develop the capability to get good at you chosen path.
There's plenty of potential in the ASX300. A quick scan tells me that 55 stocks in the ASX300 (18%) made a 25% gain in the last 12 months, and 25 stocks in the ASX300 (8%) made a 50% gain in that time and 5 stocks (2%) made 100% gains in that time - see the screen results below:
Looking for these winners at the big end of town is not a lot different to the small cap space imo so the skills used in the small cap space can be used very effectively to screen & find larger stocks that are moving. You may not be looking at multi-baggers like the small cap space (but really, when you think about it what % of small caps actually multi-bag?), but 25-100% gains are not uncommon in a given 12 month period and these stocks have a much lower probability of cap raises and some of the other pitfalls of small caps, so there are benefits to be gained by applying trading skills to larger stocks, not the least of which is diversification between small, medium & large cap sectors, and /or industries.
