So I’ve only recently gotten into stocks and have very little play money in it. When I look around individual stocks I see Earnings Per Share, Shares Outstanding, Volume (day/10 day) etc… you all see the same stuff.
To get to the point I don’t fully understand how to use each of these to gauge if a stock will move up or not. Volume is easily predictable to show popularity, and if there is going to be a pump and dump… but to me seems useless in determining if the stock will rise steadily.
I look at Earning Per Share and either see a positive or a negative. To me I see a negative number as being debt or losses for the quarter/year showing a fundamental problem. Though I see some people point out debt is normal… but negative to me means more debt than they can earn. Is this a good indicator that a stock will fail if negative, and will succeed is positive?
I also look at 10 year history along with Max history to see how a stock has played out. I’m dumb so I watched a youtube video about trends and what looks good and what is dead. Not sure how accurate this is, but a declining stock over 10 years seems like a good indicator the stock is dead. Then also the inverse is true.
What do you all look at? I know some of you like to simply say YOLO… but I want to be earning money.
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