If you have not had the opportunity to work with the MSN Money Stock Screener, you should. It provides for a great ways to find investment ideas that could, after some research, turn up a few winners. In fact, the first component of the research process for The Disciplined Investor’s QuantaFundaTechna approach uses screens as a way to put emotions and preconceived ideas aside in order to focus on purely quantitative measures to find stocks that meet a variety of conditions.
A simple example of a screen that has been relatively successful over time is known as The Dogs of the Dow. The group of 10 stocks is now set for 2009.