Buying stocks long on confirmed up signals and selling stocks short on confirmed down signals has been shown to produce very good results. If one could buy at the exact bottom of a downtrend and sell at the exact top of an uptrend, i.e., the market turning points, the results would be absolutely phenomenal. We don't claim to have ever called a turning point, but we have come very close on numerous occasions. We strive to make our calls as close to the turning points as possible.

VectorVest subscribers have demonstrated, in back tests of their own design, the ability to turn $10,000 into more than $100,000 on numerous occasions using our actual calls. The techniques for conducting back tests are illustrated via a series of click-by-click tutorials presented in the Strategy Section of the VectorVest Views. It is suggested that you print these tutorials and go through each one of them. Using VectorVest is like playing a piano. The more you use it, the better you will become.
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VectorVest believes in buying safe, undervalued stocks in rising markets, selling them when the market peaks; then selling risky, overvalued stocks short in down markets, and covering them as the market bottoms. We call this strategy, “Riding the Wave”. It was first introduced to our readers on May 29, 1998. A Special Report on “Riding the Wave” is available at www.vectorvest.com/wave.htm Note that the example in the report shows how $100,000 was turned into $2,037,685 in just over five years.



The best way to find stocks to buy long or sell short is to use the UniSearch Tool. This unique tool is so powerful that it makes finding appropriate stocks to buy long in upturns or sell short in downturns a piece of cake.

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