I learned through failure that trading individual stocks ignoring the indexes was idiocy- 75% of stocks follow the indexes, to be honest if i thought stocks were to go up i'd just buy SPY, then again you wouldn't be beating the sp500 then
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Anyway-buy stocks when indexes are bullish and vice versa