"Nobody can pick a stock that outperforms any other stocks at any single time period.  As a matter of fact, such stock does not exist. So, any ridicule based on relative performance within an arbitrarily fixed time period is total BS."

to pick a stock winner in a short time period is very difficult.
however, to pick a wining company in a long term is brainless.
anyone has half a brain knows  IMB, INTC, MSFT, GE are big blue,
safe and have relatively slower return.   APPL, GOOG are growing
stocks have better return yet more volatility.   GM in 2006-2008
was in lost and shaky. 

If you can identify good companies from bad, then you have a method
to choose a good company and likely a stock winner in a longer term.
for the last 6 months I was comparing number of solar stocks/companies.
I picked LDK and the chart shows LDK is wining statically and consistently.

Anyway, stock market always has something to worry. 


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Stock ..10/15/2010 .. 09/24/1010 .... Gain $ .... Gain %
LDK ......... 12.12  ....... 8.85 ....... $3.27 ....... 36.95%
YGE ........ 13.12   ...... 12.14 ...... $0.98 ....... 8.07%
SOL ........ 11.87   ...... 13.03 ...... -1.16 ...... -8.9%
TSL ......... 27.87   ....... 27.68 ...... 0.19 ....... 0.69%