| Computer stock picking is one of the easiest and | | | | and tested stock trading strategies that have been |
| cheapest ways to increase the success of your | | | | written down and translated into a computer |
| stock picks. | | | | program. What the computer does is apply the |
| One of the big problems faced by all investors is the | | | | strategy to all of the many thousands of potential |
| vast amounts of information to process and analyze. | | | | stock investments out there. The main advantage of |
| Sometimes it can be baffling and tricky to know | | | | using the computer to implement a strategy has |
| where to start looking for the next stock to invest | | | | many advantages: |
| in. It can be easy to get the feeling that professional | | | | - The strategy is already tried and tested. The stock |
| traders or fund managers must have some secret | | | | picking methodology is already tried and tested by |
| tool at their disposal. To some extent this is true. | | | | the professionals so the element of going into the |
| For some years now professional traders (mainly the | | | | unknown is reduced. In effect your stock picks will |
| ones you read about in the press that get multi | | | | become more likely to succeed. |
| million dollar bonuses) have used the power that | | | | - Time. Such programs save you such a huge amount |
| computers offer to help them with their trading. Only | | | | of time. A computer can analyze hundreds of stock |
| recently have these techniques become affordable | | | | in the time it will take you to do 1 or 2. |
| and available to individual investors. | | | | - Accuracy.Computer strategies do not make |
| The secret the pros use is computer stock picking | | | | mistakes. They simply implement the strategy they |
| software. These programs are effectively their tried | | | | are programmed to do. |