Summary of HOW TO MAKE MONEY IN STOCKS SUMMARY (BY WILLIAM O’ NEIL)

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The video discusses William O'Neil's CAN SLIM system, which suggests factors to consider before purchasing a stock, including earnings, products and management, institutional sponsorship, and market direction. The video emphasizes the importance of market timing, reading stock charts, and understanding when the market is bullish or bearish. It also explains the cup with handle pattern, which is a strong base for future growth, and gives advice on when to sell stocks, such as when they experience a 7-8% decline or exhibit poor relative strength. Overall, the video emphasizes the importance of establishing a selling plan and continuously learning and studying to achieve investment goals.

• 00:00:00 In this section, we learn about CAN SLIM, a system for selecting stocks created by William O'Neil. CAN SLIM stands for different key factors to consider before purchasing a stock. Some of these factors include current quarterly earnings and sales, annual earnings increases, new products, management or conditions, supply and demand, leader or laggard, institutional sponsorship and market direction. O'Neil believes that market timing, trading, and interpretation of stock charts can help significantly in investing. He emphasizes the importance of knowing when the general market is a bullish (uptrending) or bearish (downtrending) one as this helps in deciding when to invest, exit the market, or free cash. The indicators O'Neil uses to evaluate whether the market is uptrending or downtrending include the major general market averages, their price and volume changes, and newspaper portrayals of the economy, among others.
• 00:05:00 In this section, the video teaches about the importance of buying stocks from a strong base with a special example of "The cup with handle". The cup with handle is a price pattern that is considered to form a strong base for future growth. It's important to buy stocks when its downtrend handle is broken on substantial increases in daily trading volume. Also, the video recommends selling stocks when they experience a 7-8% decline without hoping that they will return. The video also gives 9 reasons when it might be a good choice to sell a stock while considering the story of a man trying to catch turkeys as an analogy.
• 00:10:00 In this section, William O'Neil provides nine situations when it's time to sell your stock gains, such as signs of distribution after heavy daily volume, new highs on poor volume, poor relative strength, and closing at the day's price low. It's important to establish a plan for when to realize your gains and be willing to sell before the stock returns to its former heights. Additionally, investors should make sure the stock passes the CAN SLIM test, have tools for deciding whether they're in a bull or bear market, and face reality by limiting losses. Lastly, O'Neil emphasizes the importance of studying and learning outside of regular work hours to reach investment goals.