In the game of stock market investing, a home run would be to double the money on your investment in the shortest time frame possible, such as within a day, a week, or a month. The vast majority of people who invest in the market do so with the intent of seeing at least 8% to 10% growth every year.
So how on earth can you game the market in such a way as to be successful in doubling your money with stocks consistently? Obviously, it depends on a couple of factors:
1. How risk-averse are you? If you can afford to accept the risk that you might lose all of the money you are investing with the intent to double, then this approach will work for you. If not, then you are better off finding a more conservative approach to investing.
2. How much capital do you have? This determines how many shares of stock you can afford to buy. If you have one thousand dollars to invest, then you can buy one thousand shares of a stock that is worth only $1. However, if you wanted to invest in a stock that costs $50 per share, you could only afford to buy twenty shares of stock. So if your $1 stock doubled in value to $2 this month, you would make a cool $1,000 net profit. However, what is the likelihood that a $50 stock would double to $100? Not very. But if that $50 stock were to go up in value by $1 to $51, then you would only make $20 net profit. Hardly seems worth the trouble to invest in stocks, doesn't it, for that measly pittance?
3. Are you using the right stock analysis tool? It would very difficult to game the market unless you had some system, some method to research hundreds or thousands of stocks in real-time and selectively pick the stocks that are virtually guaranteed to double in value.
That's where stock analysis software comes in handy. There are computer programs out there that are capable of analyzing hundreds of thousands of stocks in a matter of a few hours. They perform millions of computations per second against all of a stock's historical data. Based on their calculations, they are able to make extrapolations about the future behavior of this stock. If a stock is determined to have an extremely high probability of doubling in value over the upcoming short-term time horizon, then the computer program can issue a "hot stock pick" alert.