This week I wrote a post Study Trading not Markets ($TSLA) where I shared the power of studying trading patterns over stock fundamentals. After all I play the game of trading pro not economics professor or Uber-Confident Financial Media Entertainment Complex Guest. My job is to make excellent risk/reward decisions with my firm’s money to which for some trades longer term company fundamentals may not be relevant.
It is our job as pro traders/investors to understand when fundamentals matter and when they don’t. There have been a lot of fundamentalites playing pro trader/investor on the Financial Media Entertainment Complex of late with their big Short TSLA idea who are not pros at all. (And I bet you these guys stay at the Four Seasons and not a Holiday Inn.) I say again: GROWTH STOCKS DO NOT TRADE BASED ON FUNDAMENTALS. This prior post had an important impact on the trading/investing of many given my inbox. There is one issue I should clarify. What is a growth stock?
During a one day trading course in Asia, with students wanting to learn how to navigate US markets, I clarified the definition of a growth stock:
- No ceiling on earnings
- Cocktail party chatter
- Buzz about the stock
- Hot stock
- Does not trade based on P/E
To make a growth stock trade/investment consider:
- It is really a Growth Stock?
- High Short interest of at least 20 percent
- 2xs ATR of late
- Important Technical Level for Entry
- Little Technical Resistance Ahead
- Increasing Volume
- History of Explosive Upmoves
- R/R of 10×1 and Swing Trade it
- Pray for pundits on the Financial Media Entertainment Complex to shout it is overvalued
I hope that helps.
You can be better tomorrow than you are today!
Mike Bellafiore
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One Comment on “What is a Growth Stock?”
There needs to be a class in finance programs that somehow combines traditional valuation taught by capm, modigliani & miller, and other corporate finance concepts with growth stock valuation which seems to have almost zero rules. Further finance classes need to revamp their teaching to consider that 70% of trading nowadays is done by HFT’s and not humans who in the past used traditional valuation much more in their trading/investing decisions.