Thursday, March 30, 2017

What factors do you look for in an investment?

So I've always been a trader on technicals, but recently I've decided to do the more longer term investing since I can't be active on the market everyday from 9.30-4pm.

Currently I'm using 3 metrics to find potential investments to hold for a few months/years. This is the process I use:

1) Look at charts - has it been uptrending over the last 6 months? 2) Look at the Cash/Debt ratio - Looking for ratios 4 or above 3) Look at PE - ideally want it around the 20 mark, but depends on industry when compared to peers

Using this criteria, I found the following potential investments:

OCLR - 60.8 PE - 31.01

TTWO - 6.65 PE - 352.93

GNTX - 1000+ PE - 17.88

MRVL - no debt PE - 380.73

MOMO - no debt PE - 48.67

SLM - no debt PE - 23.15

YHOO - 34.5 PE - -202.85

Now from here, I'll be looking more into the companies and see what they've been promising/doing over the last year and what they plan for the next year. How have they been with Analysts predictions? After all of these check out, I'll probably take a position.

I was wondering what criteria you guys use for longer term investments? I'm fairly new to this as I mentioned, so looking to learn!



Submitted March 30, 2017 at 10:46AM by blackdragon1299 http://ift.tt/2oln8dN

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