Some very good posts here and i would side with 50ftCat's coments.
If your looking for a dividend and growth share then fundamnetals is obviously the way to go, using technicals to pick an optimum buying opportunity (ie a dip in an uptrend).
For short term trades, then technicals win hands down and playing your trades off announcements is what i have found can work reasonably well with high volume small caps. IMO most of these opportunites have dissapeared in the last 8 weeks as the market appears to have stabilised for now.
One thing i have used is a 10% rule for 10% investment capital which equals 1% risk of total capital for speccies, I ignored this once and it cost me dearly. Quality dividend paying shares are the only times you should by the fall imo.
I also have a performance timeframe based on fundamentals and technicals. If XYZ ltd does not achieve xSP by a pre-determined date or x announcement is due by (and i allways allow a bit of fat for ann's) then I sell.
