The best methods for creating long term wealth are to identify and hold good investments while simultaneously unearthing and pruning bad investments. So while finding big winners and riding them to large gains is important it’s crucial to understand that this of course is only half the battle. The other half of the battle is to control losses by removing poor performing stocks before they become large losses. IQ software helps you do both. Use IQ’s numerical 0 to 100 rankings to help assess what stocks are worth keeping and what stocks are worth tossing !
IQ subscribers can create detailed portfolio holdings and set timely email alerts to be alerted to changes in their holdings ranking score. Additionally users can overlay IQ’s buy and sell algorithms as a secondary portfolio filter in helping determine when to hold ‘em and when to fold ‘em. These IQ buy and sell signals made many prescient sell signals on some the who’s who of 2008’s the biggest losers. It indentified problems such as; AIG, Bear Stearns, Citigroup, Fannie Mae and Lehman Brothers long, long before they became front page news.
While losing investment/trades are a part of investing and cannot be totally avoided having an early warning system like IQ can pay big, big dividends !!