www,CandleStickForums.com Stock Investment Profits Are stock investment profits limited to specific occasions or are they more widely available? This has to do with long term investing versus short term investing or even day trading. Stock investment profits come from two factors, dividends and changes in stock price. There are dividend stocks that have paid dividends for decades and even more than a century. However, the stock investment profits solely from dividend stocks usually cannot compete with the investment profits with strong growth stocks. Thus it is with the change in stock prices that both investors and traders can best gain stock investment profits. So, you want to make stock investment profits. What stocks do you invest in? When do you invest? Do you buy and hold or do you buy stock at the bottom of a price curve and sell stock when its value peaks? If you are interested in trading stocks instead of adding stocks to your stock portfolio for the long term, selling short can be profitable in a falling market. Using technical analysis with tools like Candlestick analysis gives the trader or investor a clear and accurate view of market sentiment. Combine the use of Candlestick charting with fundamental analysis of stocks looking for a low price to earnings ratio, a strong margin of safety, and forwarding looking intrinsic stock value and the investor or day trader has a good recipe for stock investment profits.