Educating the world about finance. IBD’s 20 Rules for Success. IBD, otherwise know as Investor’s Business Daily, has compiled a basic set of rules for success. They claim that your investment results should improve materially if you carefully follow these 20 rules (rules in bold lettering). I have added my “two cents” after each rule based on my experiences as a trader. I can tell you that these rules helped establish my foundation towards successful investing. New readers can try the paper for free for two or four weeks depending on a print or electronic version: Free Trial I now use the eIBD electronic version so I can save them but I started with the print version (both are great for their own reasons). 1. Consider buying stocks with each of the last three years’ earnings up 25%+, return on equity of 17%+ and recent earnings and sales accelerating. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20.
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