So How Well Does the Net Trawl for Stocks?

摘要

The Internet opens a world of information and provides handy tools to uncover investment opportunities―at least that's what its promoters say. So I decided to log on and actually test this hypothesis. Here's what I found: There are thousands of stocks out there. And my mission was to find only a handful. That shouldn't be that hard, right? Before I started, I decided I wanted stocks that could be stashed in a retirement portfolio, not ones that would need daily monitoring. I'm basically a value investor but I wanted to include some equities that offered good growth potential in return for some added risk and volatility. I intended to focus on a company's long-range prospects and whether its price could be justified.