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Why The First Few Minutes Of Trading Are Important

Why pay so much attention to the firstthe "most points gained" list right
few minutes of the trading day and whoafter the open, you have to watch that
the top 10 or 15 stocks are right at theone! It should pull back some from that
open?huge gap, base out and start climbing up
As you know many times the market willagain.
"gap" open. That is, it will open stocksTo put it frankly, you can scan
higher than they closed the day before.thousands of headlines every morning
This is important because "something" islooking for that one "gem" of a story
going to happen to that stock. It willthat will give a stock a big boost and a
either fall back down and be forgottenlot of times you find it, but Wall
(great short) on the day or it willStreet will show you those stocks and
"fill the gap" meaning it will pull backdozens of others simply by the amount of
and then possibly move higher again.excitement right at the open. Some of
There is no stronger indication of whatyour best research can be started just
stocks may move later in the day than totwo or three minutes after the bell.
take notice of who is the point leaderLook for point gainers, volume spikes,
just a few minutes into the day.and % gainers. If you see a stock that
Every morning you can scan the headlinesis trading on the leader board and it is
for stock moving news and take note of aup 2 or more points from where it closed
handfull of really interestingthe day before, rest assured either it
headlines, jot those companies down andis being carried over from the news the
in addition to them, you want to see whoday before, that morning's news, or
the "market" is moving. Many times yousome thing neat is going on!
will see a stock up 3 or 4 dollars fromUse the leaderboard as a tool, it tells
yesterday's close and you cannot finda wonderful story. If you study it long
one word of news about why it may beenough you will see very evident
moving. These are often very interestingpatterns emerge, and you will be able to
stocks to take note of becausebenefit from these patterns.
"something" is happening there and itOne last note: On a terrible day it is
warrants further investigation (insideeven more important to watch the
buys, news leaks, new contracts, rumorsleaderboard early. Why? Because even if
of mergers, and all kinds of interestingthe market beats them up and pulls them
things could be causing the move).back, they could again be the winner the
Another interesting thing about watchingnext day. Watch for that to happen often
the "leaderboard" a few minutes afterand you will find some good bargains the
the open is to affirm your own research.next day.
For instance suppose you see a mentionLarry is the publisher of and is a
about the XYZ company looking good goingrecognized authority on the subject of
forward. You do a little homework andtrading and has been publishing his
decide that "yes, this is a good lookingnewsletter, Stocks2Watch(R), since
candidate". Well, if that stock opensJanuary of 1997.
strong the next day and is actually on



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