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Investing without a stock investment strategy is like searching for a treasure without a map. The correct stock investment strategy should not only define your investment methods, but will allow you to achieve your financial goals within your specified timeframe. Four factors that determine your stock investment strategy To determine your stock investment strategy you first will need to know the following: GOALS - The total amount of money you will need to accomplish your goals. TIMEFRAME - The length of time until you need to achieve your goals. RISK LEVEL - How much risk you are willing to take to achieve your goals. RETURN LEVEL - What returns you are you expecting to achieve on your investments. If you don't know what your financial goals are take a moment right now to write out where you want to be financially in the future. You may want to retire early, pay for college or just live more comfortably. Make sure to attach a dollar amount that indicates how much you need for that...

How to notice a stocks potential rise before anyone else. Charts, analysts advice, and a host of other methods are used and useful, but you want to notice the characteristics even before the big guns start to focus their attention on these stocks. Let's consider what a chart can tell you. Simply stated, the highs, lows, and all points in between. But that's not the only things you need to look for. One example is a candlestick chart that can tell you where a stock started, ended, and traded all day, and what relevance this has to a stocks performance. There are charts that graph a stocks performance, and let you get a feel for where the stock may be heading. While using charts you start to look for tell tale signs of movement, not just up or down, but a trend that is developing. The simplest way to check is to see if what is called a "head and shoulders" pattern has developed. What you want to see is something that actually looks like a head and shoulder pattern, whet...