Anilji how do you filter the stocks to trade is there any preferred set of stocks you keep tab of
hi jain.er,
My investment portfolio for stocks is divided into three set. First is into short term, where i trade pullbacks against the trend or looking for retracements against the trend.
Second set where, higher timeframe like weekly show loss in current momentum, and then go on daily and initiate trade with reversal in mind.
Ex: if weekly is downtrending, look at MA's and MACD + MACD histo, see macd histo making a bottom and moving tick up. Thats the area when you switch into daily look for trade retracement on daily, as weekly showing wither reversal in sight or at best a consolidation. So your targets here are not too large.
Third is pure trend following. where higher timeframe is in uptrend and you will enter on pullbacks on lower timeframe.
Here targets are much higher.
And you need to merge this styles with trendlines setup on daily + weekly, and momentum readings.
My trading style is momentum based trend following. And in that you can trade in two ways. If against the trend(like identifying tops and bottoms, like we did here in this thread for Hexaware and Jain irrigation), you stoploss is small.
And second pure trendfollowing momentum setup, where stoploss is bit higher and yes targets are you never know. Some scrips run like a hell. Just trend it.