How to Quickly Find Winning Stocks with Leaderboard

Summary

Join Amy Smith and Matthew Galgani as they introduce you to Leaderboard, a powerful tool by Investor's Business Daily. This intuitive platform identifies winning stocks and optimal buy and sell times, simplifying investing for those with limited time. Utilizing the CAN SLIM investing system, Leaderboard draws on over 130 years of market history to provide rules-based buy and sell signals. Whether the market is in an uptrend or correction, Leaderboard helps investors stay in sync with current conditions, improving investment outcomes. Subscribers benefit from IBD market experts’ continuous tracking and alerts, making it a significant advantage for staying ahead in the market.

Highlights

• Leaderboard is designed for busy investors, quickly showing when to buy/sell stocks. 📊
• IBD’s market experts back the Leaders List, alerting subscribers to potential buy/sell points. 📢
• The CAN SLIM system helps identify stocks with high potential before significant upswings. 📈
• Historical market patterns aid in predicting stock performance and warning signals. 📚
• The 8% sell rule safeguards against major losses, adapting to market fluctuations. 🛡️

Key Takeaways

• Leaderboard simplifies the stock selection process, saving you time and effort. 🚀
• The platform uses the CAN SLIM investing system, based on 130+ years of market history. 🕰️
• Buy and sell signals on Leaderboard are rules-based and time-tested. ⏰
• Understanding market conditions, as shown by Leaderboard, is crucial for successful investing. 📈
• Consistency in monitoring stocks with the help of IBD experts provides a competitive edge. 🌟

Overview

Leaderboard by Investor's Business Daily is a game changer for those who want a systematic way to approach stock trading. Guided by the CAN SLIM investing system, it identifies stocks with potential high gains and pinpoints optimal times for buying and selling. This service takes the guesswork out of investing, offering time-tested strategies that have been proven effective by over a century of market analysis.

The platform doesn’t just stop at helping you find the right stocks; it assists you throughout the lifecycle of your investments. By checking the market conditions daily, you can make informed decisions based on whether the market is in an uptrend, under pressure, or in correction. This aligns your trading activities with broader market movements, greatly affecting your success rate.

Additionally, Leaderboard provides continuous support, updating buy and sell signals with charts and alerts that save you from potential pitfalls. The approach emphasizes both offensive and defensive strategies — from locking in profits to cutting losses swiftly, ensuring that you maximize your gains and minimize risks. For investors eager to harness market movements efficiently, this tool is invaluable.

Chapters

• 00:00 - 01:00: Introduction to Leaderboard In the 'Introduction to Leaderboard' chapter, Amy Smith and Matthew Galgani introduce the readers to the concept of Leaderboard, a tool designed to help users find and invest in winning stocks. They emphasize that Leaderboard simplifies the process by doing most of the work, making it ideal for individuals with limited time to invest. The chapter mentions the importance of checking market conditions and promises to elaborate on each step in subsequent sections.
• 01:00 - 02:30: Checking Market Conditions The chapter titled 'Checking Market Conditions' explains the process of determining the right time to enter or exit the market. The emphasis is on checking the leaders list curated by the IBD markets team, which is updated daily. This list highlights stocks with the highest potential at the moment. Additionally, there are top-rated stocks categorized under sector leaders, the IBD 50, and stock spotlight, all of which include exclusive leaderboard markups.
• 02:30 - 04:00: The CAN SLIM Investing System The chapter discusses the CAN SLIM investing system, emphasizing the importance of knowing when to buy and sell stocks. It highlights the usefulness of IBD 50 and Leaderboard, tools that assist investors by pinpointing buy points and tracking stock performance. The IBD markets team plays a crucial role in alerting investors to specific buy points, while Leaderboard facilitates easier decisions on when to sell by providing expert tracking and analysis.
• 04:00 - 06:00: Using Leaderboard for Buying Stocks This chapter discusses how to use the Leaderboard for buying stocks, introducing the CAN SLIM investing system as the methodology behind it. The system helps in identifying potential big winners by analyzing characteristics and warning signs exhibited by past successful stocks both before they surged and as they signaled it was time to sell.
• 06:00 - 10:00: Leaderboard's Role in Selling Stocks This chapter discusses the insights gathered from studying market cycles and top-performing stocks since 1880. It emphasizes the seven common characteristics that successful stocks exhibit before undergoing significant growth. Also, it highlights the patterns that appear when stocks begin to decline, reinforcing the idea that historical patterns tend to repeat in the stock market.
• 10:00 - 14:00: Defensive Selling Rules This chapter focuses on 'Defensive Selling Rules' and highlights the importance of recognizing buy and sell signals that are grounded in over 130 years of market history as represented on the Leaderboard. It emphasizes the reliability and time-tested nature of these rules, which are accessible through resources like investors.com/can-slim. Additionally, it notes the prominence of the CAN SLIM strategy, which has been recognized as the leading growth strategy for more than a decade, as verified by an independent study conducted by the American Association of Individual Investors.
• 14:00 - 16:00: Conclusion and Additional Resources The chapter titled 'Conclusion and Additional Resources' summarizes the effectiveness of the CAN SLIM investment strategy and the ease of use provided by the Leaderboard service. An example from February 2012 illustrates how a market uptrend was identified, making it an ideal time to invest in stocks like Rackspace Hosting, a cloud computing company that possessed the desirable CAN SLIM traits. This inclusion in the Leaders List served as an advance notification to subscribers about a potential buying opportunity, emphasizing the practicality and success of the strategy.

How to Quickly Find Winning Stocks with Leaderboard Transcription

• 00:00 - 00:30 welcome to getting started with leaderboard I'm Amy Smith and I'm Matthew Galgani today we're going to show you how to use leaderboard to quickly find winning stocks and just as importantly see the right time to buy and sell them you'll find that leaderboard does most of the work for you so if you're busy and have limited time to invest this will give you a huge advantage here's how it works and we'll get into each of these steps later in this video first check the overall market conditions with leaderboard you
• 00:30 - 01:00 know right away if now is the time to be getting into or out of the market next I always check the leaders list to quickly zero in on what stocks to buy the list is put together and reviewed each day by the IBD markets team and it's a short list of stocks that have the most potential right now you'll also find top rated stocks under the tabs for sector leaders the IBD 50 and stock spotlight that includes exclusive leaderboard only markups and
• 01:00 - 01:30 analysis for the top ten stocks in the IBD 50 it's also important to know when to buy and leaderboard helps pinpoint that for you too and what's great about this is that the IBD markets team helps alert you ahead of time to specific buy points so you're ready to act if a stock on the leaders list breaks out knowing when to sell is one of the most difficult aspects of investing but leaderboard makes it a lot easier that's because IBD market experts continue to track each stock on the
• 01:30 - 02:00 leaders list even after it breaks out giving you a heads up to any sell signals as they emerge Before we jump in here's a little background on the system behind leaderboard it's known as the can slim investing system and it's based on a very simple concept to find tomorrow's big winners you need to know what past winners look like just before they surge and to know when it's time to sell it helps to know what warning signs past leaders flashed as they eventually
• 02:00 - 02:30 topped and began to decline at IBD we've studied every market cycle and top performing stocks since 1880 whether it's Bethlehem Steel in 1914 or Apple in 2004 decade after decade the best stocks display the same seven common characteristics just before they launch their biggest moves and when the party ends these stocks display the same warning signs that's absolutely true if there's one thing we've learned it's that in the stock market history is
• 02:30 - 03:00 always repeating itself so know that the buy and sell signals you see in leaderboard our time-tested rules based on over a hundred and thirty years of market history you can learn more at investors comm slash can slim we should also note that can Slim has been the number one growth strategy for well over a decade that's according to an ongoing independent study of over fifty top strategies by the American Association of individual investors in other words
• 03:00 - 03:30 can slim works and leaderboard makes it easy to put it to work for you it really does make it a whole lot easier and here's an example in February 2012 the market was in an uptrend meaning it was a good time to buy stocks and I remember Rackspace hosting a cloud computing company it had the can slim traits we look for so it went on the leaders list that alerted subscribers ahead of time to a potential buy point and remember
• 03:30 - 04:00 how the stock broke past that by point and climbed 34% in just three months definitely remember that not a bad gain in such a short time and then later board noted a potential sell signal giving you an opportunity to lock in those profits and remember the IBD markets team is adding these alerts and updates throughout the day as it happens that's right it's a huge advantage and a time saver and I've used it many times so that gives you a sense of how leaderboard will guide you through the
• 04:00 - 04:30 lifecycle of a stock from pinpointing the right time to buy to identifying a good time to sell okay let's take a closer look at how it works and help you establish a quick routine when you log in and click on the leaderboard tab here's the first page you'll see it shows you which of three possible stages the market is currently in just like a street light the three stages are confirmed uptrend shown in green that's the best time to buy stocks uptrend under pressure in yellow that
• 04:30 - 05:00 means we're seeing some selling pressure in the market and it's time to be cautious and ready to take defensive action and then there's the stop sign and this is market in correction and that means that the market is trending down and it's best to avoid making any new buys it's also a good time to lock in your gains and cut short any losses and to learn more about current market conditions and what actions you should be taking right now click the big picture tab you'll find a weekly review
• 05:00 - 05:30 of the market action a daily wrap-up of what happened and what it all means and multiple intraday updates that alert you to any major news or moves happening during the trading session we can't emphasize enough how important it is to always know the current market direction are we in an uptrend or a correction staying in sync with the overall market will have a huge impact on your results it absolutely will now again we've studied every market cycle since 1880
• 05:30 - 06:00 and it's clear three out of four stocks simply move in the same direction as the overall market so if you try to buy stocks when the market is in a correction or downtrend you're fighting an uphill battle keep the odds in your favor and only buy when the market is in a confirmed uptrend scroll down from there to see the leaders list pay special attention to the top half of that list called leaders near a buy point if the overall market
• 06:00 - 06:30 is in a confirmed uptrend these could offer a chance to get in I want to emphasize one thing here too and not to sound like Carl Sagan but there are thousands and thousands of stocks to choose from but the leaders list narrows that down to just a handful of the very best stocks while these are not recommendations the leaders list is the most targeted and pared down list we produce so it makes your search for winning stocks much faster and easier and for each leaders list stock you'll
• 06:30 - 07:00 find a quick analysis of the latest trends and key news plus a back story that tells you what the company does to dig a little deeper click this icon to see more articles about the stock and scroll down a bit and you'll see the second half of the leaders list these stocks also have the can slim traits we discussed earlier but they're not currently near a buy point however you do want to keep an eye on them since they could offer an opportunity down the
• 07:00 - 07:30 road now it's time to take action once a stock makes the leaders list you want to look for the right time to buy we keep repeating this since it's crucial first make sure the overall market is in a confirmed uptrend and then look for leaderboard highlights pointing to the right time to buy you'll find them in the chart markups these are updated as needed throughout the day by the IBD markets team and as you can see in leaderboard blue is good red is bad so you'll see by points in blue and warning
• 07:30 - 08:00 signs in red on the left you also have a checklist that gives you a pass neutral or fail rating for each stock let's take Priceline as an example here's the highlight of the buy point before the stock broke out so you could have been ready to buy right when the stock broke out a few days later and quickly shot up over 20% so that's how leaderboard helps you get in at the right time with the buy point alerts in blue now let's see
• 08:00 - 08:30 how it helps you see when it's time to sell with the red markups and there are two types of selling offensive for locking in your profits and defensive for cutting short any losses let's look at offensive selling first in general you want to take profits around 20% and that's because if the stock goes up 20 to 25% from a buy point it typically pulls back so that can be a good time to lock in and start compounding those gains here's the markup in red that let you know this was potentially a time to take some profits
• 08:30 - 09:00 now for a while anyway Priceline was an exception to that rule and kept climbing higher the markets team continued to track the stock and when it pulled back here another red warning note appeared so if you were holding Priceline this was another opportunity to lock in your profits and you can see how it's moved lower since then so you can see that this approach could be called conservative growth investing now we have rules to make sure you lock
• 09:00 - 09:30 in some profits along the way there is an important exception to the 20 to 25 percent sell rule if a stock goes up more than 20 percent from a buy point in just two to three weeks you must hold the stock for at least eight weeks and this will help you hang on to a potentially big winner in Vincents which makes chips for video games triggered that rule in early 2012 here's where a leaderboard alerted you to the buy point then noted how it had triggered the
• 09:30 - 10:00 eight week hold rule when it quickly shot up over 20% and that rule came in handy a few days later when invent cents sold off hard most people would have been scared off by that but the eight week rule helped you to sit tight and when the stock pulled back again later leaderboard noted how it had found support at its 50-day line which helped you hold on for another big run until it eventually topped and a sell signal was noted by following leaderboards buy and sell alerts you could have locked in a
• 10:00 - 10:30 48 percent gain in in Vincents in just four months here's what we call the cardinal rule of defensive selling if a stock drops seven to eight percent below what you paid for it sell no questions asked it's the best way to make sure you never let a small loss become a big one and that's really important to remember that even the best investors make mistakes but they cut their losses quickly when they do so never let your
• 10:30 - 11:00 emotions get in the way if you have a loss cut it quickly and move on and here's an example of why that's important and how leaderboard helps you stay out of trouble catamaran which provides pharmacy benefits management services broke out in June but quickly pull back this red mark up tells you what triggered the 8% sell rule so it was time to cut your losses and the stock tried to rally after that but it has dropped even more since then so getting out at 8% saved you from taking a much larger loss keep
• 11:00 - 11:30 in mind too that when a member of the leaders list sells off can get moved to the cut list in the right type of market that could mean it's a possible short selling candidate but shorting can be tricky so be sure to learn more about proper shorting strategies before attempting that so that's just a quick overview of how leader board guides you through the entire life cycle of a winning stock leader board identifies potential winners and puts them on the leaders
• 11:30 - 12:00 list before they break out and updates chart markups throughout the day to alert you to any buy or sell signals that's right you don't want to over complicate it leaderboard is a very simple but powerful tool in a strong market you'll find timely alerts to many money-making opportunities like these this chart shows the performance of stocks on the leaders list in the four month uptrend we saw around the first quarter of 2012 there are some nice
• 12:00 - 12:30 gains on this list but in a stronger longer bull market cycle you can capture even bigger profits using the markups by IBD experts to learn more about leader board can slim or any other investing questions you may have contact the leader board concierge to get answers you can also set up a free training session the bottom line is we're here to help all you have to do is ask so send us an email or give us a call at 877 eight eight seven zero six three zero
• 12:30 - 13:00 thanks for watching