Quote:I definitely agree that beating the market average is difficult however there are good performing stocks, decent ones and many bad ones if you stick with the good ones and know when to go in and out beating the market becomes a lot easier. For example on March 27th based off of what happened the previous day I purchased RGEN as soon as the market opened at 28.80 per share, right now I am up about 20% as RGEN closed yesterday at 34.75, not bad. It has been a nice ride but I am ready to take my gains and have placed a stop market order that will execute at 34.50, if it should fall that low. If the stock continues to rise my gains will continue to increase and I will most likely set my stop market order a little higher.

 

For comparisons sake SPY, the S&P 500, is up just 3.2% over the same period of time.