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[Investing 101] – How to Pick a Winning Stock 100% of the Time

13 Wednesday Apr 2016

Posted by Sudarshan Sridharan in Investing 101

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First of all, I’ve gotten quite a bit of feedback since I started writing the blog again. Due to the feedback received I will be writing about Virtual Reality Stocks, Under Armour and Michael Kors, and expediting the Investing for Beginners series. This article was going to be apart of one MASSIVE Investing for Beginners article, but I’ve decided to make it a series. I will be adding to these as I go, and then at the end of the series, I will be compiling all the articles into one big, edited, article.

I know I’ve gotten behind on the 30 articles in 30 days, but I’m really trying to get back on track with these articles, and with school work, so it’s been a bit of a grind.

I know that this article is totally out of place in the series and should be like the 3rd or 4th article in the series, but honestly, I’m not really feeling like explaining the primitive basics of how the stock market works right now (midnight), so enjoy this article.


As I’ve said before, I’m more of a, “Use your heart not your head” type of investor. That philosophy takes on different styles of investing every time, but for this article I will be sticking to one specific style.

The stock market isn’t something that you have to study for years and have a natural talent for, it’s just like a game – play it long enough and you’ll learn everything about it, and become extremely skilled at it.

All you do is look for stuff you use in your everyday life. Then you ask yourself a couple questions, and then you decide whether or not you want to buy the stock by asking yourself a few more questions. It might seem really dumbed down and simple, but that’s because it is.

This is one of the easiest ways to find a stock that you know you will not lose money in (as long as you don’t invest in Financials like banks, or Healthcare stocks, you should be fine). Why? Because these companies are NECESSARY for the world to go on. Chances are, if you use something, and your friends use something, then the majority of everybody uses it.

This is how  found stocks like Netflix, Tesla (although it wasn’t necessary or mandatory at the time when I found the stock in 2012), Amazon, Adobe, Microsoft, Apple, Google, FaceBook, Visa, Nike, Under Armour, Activision, Electronic Arts, and a lot, lot more.

If you’re reading this and going, wait, all this kid did was spit out FAANG (Jim Cramer’s acronym for the super successful tech stocks that are holding the Nasdaq up), and a few other stocks that are super obvious, well you’re right. Except, I found every stock in FAANG 3 years before Cramer (Netflix being the last of the stocks that I identified in 2012). How? Well I just asked myself these questions:

  • What do I use everyday?
  • Do other people use it everyday?
  • Can the world function without it?
  • Will people feel a void if it doesn’t exist?
  • Do all my friends and family use it or want it?
  • Will it impact them if it disappears?
    • If yes to all the questions above, proceed to find the items creator and check if they have a stock.
    • If they have a stock, ask yourself these questions:
      • Have the recently announced earnings?
      • Have they shot up a lot recently(50% or more in the last quarter is how I define it, you’ll come up with your own definition as you learn)?
      • Are they expected to do poorly in earnings?
    • If the answer to any of the above is yes then I don’t recommend buying the stock. The only times I’ve broken these rules and still made money is with Netflix every January when they report earnings and have over inflated comps which analysts never expect and the stock shoots up (check out my post from Jan. 2014 when the stock went up 86% the week I recommended buying it), and with every other stock in FAANG, as well as a few other trades. However, seeing that this is [Investing 101], I’m going to assume that you don’t have enough experience to make that kind of call yet.

Now that you’ve asked yourself all these questions, I recommend blindly going to your brokerage of choice and putting in an order to take a ~5% or less stake in the company.

When I was 11 (I think this may have been before I turned 11), in 2011, I made a list of 3 companies the world couldn’t go on without. The list was:

  • Adobe
  • Microsoft
  • Google

Are you surprised to see Microsoft and Adobe on that list? Well now I’d probably replace Microsoft with FaceBook, and keep the rest of the list the same. Either ways MSFT has done spectacularly in the last 5 years, as has ADBE, and GOOG/GOOGL. Amazon (AMZN) was a strong contended for the Microsoft slot until Jet.com came out. Now you have Ali-Baba spin offs, and Jet.com to cover just about all of your online shopping needs. While no one under 35 uses FaceBook anymore for purely social media purposes, it’s used by just about every business, hosts a plethora of games, and is leading the way in virtual reality development (and in about 50 [sic] other fields as well).

Anyways, the reasoning behind Adobe was that everyone used PDFs. Gamers everywhere used Flash, and Youtube is based on Adobe Flash. Imagine if Adobe went under, the few months (at least weeks), you’d be without Youtube would be devastating for people everywhere.

The reasoning behind Google was (and still is) that it is used by everyone, for just about everything on the internet. Teachers say, “Google it,” not, “Bing it,” or, “Yahoo it,” (Yahoo, right that still exists), entire businesses are built off of Youtube, manipulating Google Search Engine Results, Google Blogs, AdSense, Scholar, Wallet, Play, Android, literally everything that is anything, Google was involved somewhere along the way.

Now if you’re in a betting mood, you can take a chance on companies that have fallen on hard times. I recommended a company called Aeropostale on Quora a few weeks ago. ARO had fallen from $30 to $0.20 cents. I figured that I saw enough Aeropostale shirts floating around school that it was still relevant, and that it couldn’t possibly just go under like that (and even if it did, oh no, you just lost $0.20 a share). I went to school and asked 10 girls when the last time they wore Aeropostale was.

I was surprised by the number of people who’d worn it within the last week (7), so I figured YOLO, lets go for it. On April 4, the stock rallied to above 50%.

I’d give some more anecdotal evidence about why these simple questions are so good at getting the job done, but you won’t believe it until you see it for yourself. Go ahead, track a stock for a couple weeks (or months), that you picked using this method and report back with the results.

I don’t recommend using this for banks, healthcare stocks, or social media stocks because they are so fragile and move due to far too many other reasons. Social Media stocks are incredibly hard to make money off of because most social networks don’t have proper advertising and revenue structures in place.

I try to respond to every email I get, but there are an awful lot of them, and only one of me, so give me a few days and I’ll get around to you. I hope this article was helpful in some way, and if it was, please rate it and leave a comment.

I’d write some more, but it’s almost 2 am here, and even if I did go to bed at 9pm last night, I’m feeling tired, so good night, and hope this helped!

 

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The 30 for 30: The Primepick Renaissance

06 Wednesday Apr 2016

Posted by Sudarshan Sridharan in General, Market News, News, Stock News

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Skip to the bottom if you want to know who I am exactly and what credentials I have. This part is explaining the direction of the Primepick, and what I’m going to be doing with the blog. You should read it too.

Alright so for those of you that don’t know, I started the PrimePick when I was 13 years old. Every single stock I’ve ever written about on here (yes ever) has gone on to be profitable – at least for that recommended time frame.

I have been very active on Quora.com recently (it’s a great website, seriously check it out), and was repeatedly asked to write about my stock picks and stock advice, as well as business, consulting, and marketing advice. It started getting to the point where on every single one of my finance posts one or two people would ask me to write somewhere.

I didn’t realize that I would ever be this in demand (because after well over 2 years, this site hasn’t broken a 1000 views), but now I think it’s time that I started writing about my investments again.

EROS went up to $13, when I recommended it at $6 in January (that was my last post, and I onl wrote it because I was trying SUPER hard to get back into this and failed miserably). On Quora, I recommended ARO (Aeropostale), days before it exploded 50% to go as high as $0.39, from when I called it at $0.2. People were calling me “unqualified” and telling me that I didn’t know what I was talking about because I was only 15.

They never came back to that post (because who really wants to talk to an unqualified 15 year old right?), but that was it. I got like 15 people who saw that messaging me that I absolutely had to write, so that’s what I decided to do.

One of the guys on that post reminded me that I had called Netflix in Jan. 2014 before it ran up 86% THAT WEEK! After reading that I realized this could be my resume for my first job, or something that I show to future investors interested in giving me their money.

I will be writing 30 posts in 30 days (or less) about running a business, investing, consulting, marketing, basically anything finance related that you can think of, I’ll write about it.

It’s going to be hard, but I’ll do it. After that, I’m going to write 2-4 posts  a week, and keep you guys updated every time I am going to buy a stock.


 

My name is Sudarshan Sridharan and I’m 15 years old. Last year I made 24% on the stock market, and I have never made a trade for a loss in my life. This year I started a business in January, then after that started running itself (because of good management from people who weren’t me), I started a website design and app creation company. I am extremely business minded and I plan on LLC’ing both companies under an umbrella company sometime in June of this year before I turn 16.

I have been into stocks since I was 7 and a half years old, and I have been investing with real money since I was 11. I turned my Google Finance Play Money Portfolio into my first pitch deck when I asked my dad for real money to invest with.

I don’t use math to justify my trades. Stocks like ARO (read above if you don’t know what I’m talking about) just don’t cut it at a fundamental level, but using my methods and intuition (yeah, my gut feeling), I can find and invest in stocks people don’t expect to ever turn a profit on again. I also invest in high flying tech stocks (although all my normal ones like AAPL, GOOG, NFLX, TSLA, ADBE, FB, all seem washed up. AMZN is probably the only one that I can depend on to make me like ten bucks a share in a day), and extremely risky stocks that could either go sky high, or crash.

My least favorite trades are the ones I always find myself stuck in for months (like the ones I’m in right now with NKE and V), but companies like those, with little to no downside and high upside are the ones I tend to go into after I’ve made a lot of money and want to cool down.

Anyways, I understand that you may have trouble accepting advice from a 15 year old who doesn’t use math to justify any trades, but I do have a very strong and established track record, a strong demand (which I hope translates into views on here), as well as a strong set of principles that I invest off of and follow religiously. I’ll write about them on here one day.

If you ever need something answered on here, just message me using the Contact Us page and I’ll write about it.

Thanks for reading, here’s to a new beginning and a lot of money.

Follow Me on Quora: https://www.quora.com/profile/Sudarshan-Sridharan-4

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A Strong Case for Netflix (Ticker: NFLX)

22 Wednesday Jan 2014

Posted by Sudarshan Sridharan in News

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So I bought Netflix yesterday at 3:52 pm, rushing to sell all my BAC and TSLA stocks to put 90% of my money into NFLX. I’ve written EXTENSIVELY (even when I wasn’t holding Netflix shares) about why it’s such a solid trade. I’ve just finished this study I was working on, and I learned something else from the study, Netflix and Apple are slated to go up so much, that it’s going to blow your mind (Well I think it should be obvious to all of you reading this that both stocks are going to skyrocket after their quarterly earnings reports).

The Facts:

Out of the Last 8 quarterly reports, Netflix has reported a Quartlery Loss twice! The first time I bought Netflix, was at, $88 and osme odd ccents. This was after the stock completely tanked from $300+ to $55. I’m a strong believer in, “The Market will bring back stocks that are vital to the American Household,” and guess what, Netflix is vital to every binge watcher who’s seen House of Cards, to the 6 year old kid who watches Netflix every day after school.

After I bought Netflix, it reported its first quarterly Profit in some 6 quarters. Overnight my shares almost doubled, and it didn’t let up the next day, or day after. The same thing happened (but to a lesser extent) the next time Netflix reported a quarterly earnings, and it has continued for four quarters after that. Oh and guess What? Netflix is Reporting Quarterly Earnings TODAY! That’s why I was scrambling to buy it yesterday at 3:52 pm after maximizing my profits on TSLA and BAC.

https://www.google.com/finance?q=nflx&ei=8dzfUujoM4GJsgez0wE

As you can see from the chart above, Netflix has had PHENOMENAL growth over the last 12 months.

The Problem

Netflix not only depends on this Quarterly Earnings Report to keep its drive alive, it also depends on the Report to make a $12 billion deal with 21st Century Fox. The fact that Netflix has rebounded from the $250.00 drop back to its former glory in just 12 months is also astounding. However, if Netflix doesn’t report a profit, it won’t break the $400.00 threshold, and if it doesn’t break the $400.00 threshold soon, it’s doomed to go back down, even if it doesn’t go to astronomical lows like last time.

The Bottom Line:

Well I trusted enough in Netflix to pull through (as it has for the last 6 quarters, and with the release of hit shows like Orange is the New Black and House of Cards to bring the company back to its former glory.

EDIT: The chart isn’t working so I have attached a link in it’s place. Sorry.

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Apples New iPad: Why it makes Apple Analysts Bullish

29 Tuesday Oct 2013

Posted by Sudarshan Sridharan in News

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So Apple (Ticker: AAPL) has been the one stock no one ever stops checking on. After suffering a $300 drop to $400 a share, Apple has steadily made a comeback. The new iPad Air and iPad Mini makes Apple a definite buy. Apple CEO Tim Cook said that the Christmas season should rejuvenate the Apple market. With 200 million iPad sales since it was released in 2011, Apple is already breaking barriers. With the newest addition of the iPad Air and newest iPad Mini, Apple is blowing its competition out of the water. 

Bottom Line: AAPL is a BUY BUY BUY!

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TESLA (Ticker: TSLA) Hires Former Apple Exec. Doug Fields – Share Prices Jump

24 Thursday Oct 2013

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Tesla Motors announced this evening that it had hired Apple Executive Doug Fields, a key player in Apple (Ticker: AAPL), after Steve Jobs’ death. Fields started his career working for Ford Motor Company and got hired to Apple. Tesla combines his dream of making the best cars in the world with dealing with electronics. Tesla jumped 5 1/2% after 2:30 pm when the report was announced, turning the day into a gain from a loss.

Bottom Line: TESLA is going to shoot up tomorrow. BUY BUY BUY as soon as you can

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