How I pick stocks with Google Finance

Google Finance is my tool of choice for watching stocks. I regularly visit the home page of Google Finance to read headlines. I found my current list of stocks that I watch by going down to the summary of big movers for the the day. I began looking for big loosers..10, 20, 30% loosers. I would then check to see if any of these really big loosers were profitable companies. Many aren't, but some are. Of course BP made the list durign the oil spill. By following and buying BP, I learned about RIG (Transocean). I bought CASH (Meta Financial Group) because it lost 30% in one day. Now, it went on to loose 20% more so that wasn't fun. But, I held to my guns and ending up selling it for a 10% gain in 6 months. It was a good buy at that 30% discount..i just should have waited for the sale to run its course. So, check out the Google Finance big loosers and see if any of them are on there for a silly reason. I also bouht a bunch of education stocks that showed up on the list one month. They were profitable companies and the stocks all came back.

I also like using the Google Finance portolio. I keep my live trades in there to quickly check their status throughout the day. I've also added about 10 other stocks I'm watching. Some fade in and out of the portfolio, but most stay for regular monitoring...just waiting for a sale.

I also really like being able to check on the fundamentals in a matter of seconds by using the graphs Google Finance creates on the balance sheet and profit/loss pages.