Mark Your Trends

While there is no simple snapshot outlining the complicated web of influences that can affect the value of your shares, there are ways to identify and track some of the more direct influences such as social or economic trends. An example of this might be the rise in popularity of protein diets in the late 1990’s. An investor with foresight might have seen this as a precursor to beef or chicken companies massively increasing sales and, as a result, increasing the value of their shares. Marking such trends and attempting to foresee their effects is a necessary skill to cultivate in order to identify good stocks to invest in