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Next Trend
By Bruce Mushial
There have been trends that have made investors
rich. The personal computer, cellular phones, and the Internet
are just a few that come to mind. How do you identify a blockbuster
technology or trend and get onboard before it is identified
by everyone and their brother. There are four main ways to
identify these trends. The easiest way to make money from
a new trend is to let Stock Traders Press discover it for
you. The second way to identify a new trend is to look
and see what others are calling a trend. If enough people
identify something as a trend then it IS a trend. The chore
is to identify if it is a trend that will continue long enough
for you to benefit from or is it a fad. Everyone was buying
Pet Rocks in the 1970's but it was really a short-lived fad.
Large warehouse style home improvement and buying clubs with
forklifts running around during shopping hours is a true trend
that has developed over the past decade. If you'd bought shares
of Home Depot or Costco when they were first issued you would
have done extremely well. Another way to identify new trends
is to look around and see what is going on around you. You
may be able to identify some trends before they are widely
acknowledged. Look for new technology or new products in your
day-to-day activities. Have you noticed that they are replacing
the traditional light bulbs in traffic signals with LED (Light
Emitting Diode) displays? Not only are the lights more reliable
but they use only 12 watts of electricity compared to the
60 watts of a traditional bulb. There are a lot of traffic
signals that will be replaced and this might be an investment
opportunity if they are manufactured by a publicly traded
company. If you see a new product in the workplace that strikes
you as meeting a need that widely exists, do some research
to find out who manufactures the product. Are they a publicly
traded company? Will the hot product add significantly to
its bottom line? A third way to find new trends is to actively
do research. This can be as involved as subscribing to and
reading highly technical industry publications or as simple
as watching programs on the Discovery Channel, reading Popular
Mechanics, or surfing the Internet and signing up for free
e-newsletters on different industries. Industry newsletters
frequently contain information on new products and technologies.
Did you know that each month an increasing number of municipalities
are successfully using agriculture-based BioDiesel to power
their bus and truck fleets instead of OPEC regulated crude
oil? That information came from a free e-newsletter from the
Internet. Keep your eyes open and you might find the next
stock that goes up 1000% in a 2-3 years…Or keep your
Stock Traders Press subscription current and we'll find that
stock for you.
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