YOUR QUICK-START GUIDE Using Investor’s Business Daily To …

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YOUR QUICK-START GUIDE

Using Investor's Business Daily To Find Winning Stocks.

This Quick-Start Guide is designed to show you how to get the most out of Investor's Business Daily's innovative features and help you become a more educated, confident investor.

We'll show you the most valuable and time-saving features in IBD?, give you definitions and explain why certain areas of the paper are vital if you want to make money in the stock market.

With IBD you can easily:

Discover new investment ideas. Find stocks setting up for possible breakouts. Gauge the true health of any stock. Track and understand current market conditions. Red-flag individual stock & general market sell signals. Learn the finer points of smart investing.

Every day you'll be learning a little more about the historically grounded, common-sense investment rules and guidelines IBD was founded upon. We hope you find this guide useful. Here's to your future investing success!

IBD's Top 10

Your fast briefing on the day's top stories. In minutes you get up to speed on the markets & economy.

The Big Picture

Three out of four stocks follow the market's direction. So should you. The Big Picture gives you a daily briefing on market direction and objective analysis on the price action of leading stocks. This is not personal opinion; rather, IBD editors help you understand the market's direction and its key indicators, which are vital to your investing success. The Big Picture helped observing readers get out of the market before the big losses in 2008 and back in the market in March at the start of the current rally.

Online Resources: IBD's market editors cover the action every hour during market hours. It's the top story on .

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IBD teaches you essential investing strategies every day

IBD teaches you essential investing strategies every day.

Appearing each day in IBD and at , this is the best way to begin broadening your knowledge. This section serves as a tutorial on IBD's unique tools and addresses investment questions on buying, selling, chart analysis, spotting market trends, and much more.

Online Resources: Visit our Investor's Corner Archive on education for a huge library of previously published articles. They are grouped into seven main topics from chart reading to investor psychology.

NYSE and Nasdaq Stocks On The MoveTM Sideby-Side!

IBD's one-of-a-kind daily screens list stocks trading in much higher than normal volume, indicating institutional buying. This helps you spot leaders you won't find on standard most active lists appearing in other newspapers. Stocks On The Move also shows you stocks that are down in higher than average volume, a sign of weakness and possible further price declines.

Online Resources: Our intraday version of this screen is on the homepage of and updated every two minutes during trading hours!

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HOW'S THE MARKET



How's The Market Page

MUST READ!

IBD's founder created the first daily stock computer database in the 1960s. IBD now has models of all top-performing stocks each year from 1880 to 2008. We analyzed all key fundamental & market variables present just before these super-winners increased 100% to 1000% and up. They all emerged from one of seven classic price consolidation structures (chart bases of seven to 65 weeks). Crucially, over 90% of these bases were formed during general market sell-offs that occur once or twice a year.

So, the correct time to learn to buy the next potential big new leader that has accelerating earnings and sales is when a key general market index finally rallies. The signal occurs on a fourth or later day of its attempted rally, when the index has a follow-through day up a huge percentage in price on a volume increase from the day before. Once this happens, the best stocks typically move up in price and emerge from properly formed bases.

Therefore, you need to learn to read charts and track IBD's market indexes. IBD's The Big Picture column will help you by pointing out follow-through days as well as periods of excessive distribution (selling) days over any 4 or 5 week period.

So, keep learning more from IBD and discover how to capitalize on America's relentless parade of remarkable new entrepreneurial leaders!

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Top 10 Fidelity Industry Funds

This IBD? exclusive list tells you the top sectors leading the market now. A great place to find investing ideas!

MUST READ!

IBD's 197 Industry Sub-Group Rankings Help You See New Trends!

Specific industry groups lead every new market uptrend, & specific stocks within those groups are the drivers. Group action also influences at least half of a stock's performance.

IBD's 197 Industry Sub-Group Rankings filters stocks into very specific sub-groups to help you find where the real leadership resides. This helps you focus on key stocks driving the trends and making better price gains! It's essential information you can't get anywhere else!

Industry rankings are computed based on performance over the past week, three, six and seven months. Strongest groups each day are boldfaced to identify potential trends early on. The weakest are underlined.

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IBD's New Research Tables Help You Save Time and Spot Leading Stocks!

IBD's Research Tables revolutionize how vital stock data is presented and dramatically cut the time it takes you to find winning stocks.

1 Stocks are first filtered by the best-performing 33 broad economic industry sectors.

2 The Group Ranking from previous weeks is indicated, so you know whether the group is moving up or down.

3 We show you up to 10 fundamentally and technically superior stocks alphabetically at the top of each sector list. Additional key data is given on these stocks.

4 Tables have wider columns & bigger type, making them easier for you to read than ever before.

5 NYSE and Nasdaq stocks are combined into one table to further save you time. At least 2,500 stocks are listed -- 1,000 more than other leading business dailies.

With this exclusive format, you can do a quick 30-second scan of IBD's first several sectors and immediately spot up to 30 high-rated stocks in the best market sectors!

Sorted By Top Sector Performance

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Group Ranking

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This is a good way to spot groups becoming more powerful and groups

faltering.

Up To 10 Top Performing Stocks Are Spotlighted

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When the market is in a rally, this is a great place to find leading stocks.

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-Wider Columns -Bigger Type -Easier To Read

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IBD's Key Ratings No Other Source Gives You

We rate and compare all domestically traded stocks in IBD's huge database to give you a fast assessment of a stock's strengths and weaknesses and overall potential. You have daily updates on the most relevant and vital performance measurements. No other daily financial paper offers you this data!

1. COMPOSITE RATING: The IBD SmartSelect? Composite Rating combines all 5 SmartSelect Ratings into one easy-to-use rating. More weight is placed on Earnings Per Share & Relative Strength. Stock's percent off its 52-week high is also included in the formula.

2. EARNINGS PER SHARE GROWTH RATING (EPS): Compares short- and long-term profit growth of every publicly traded company and ranks them from 1 to 99. A stock with an EPS Rating of 99 has delivered profit growth better than 99% of all other companies.

3. RELATIVE PRICE STRENGTH RATING (RS): Looks at how much a stock has gained or lost in the past 12 months and compares its performance with every other publicly traded company (1 to 99).

4. SALES+MARGINS+RETURN ON EQUITY RATING (SMR)?: Graded on an A to E scale; lets you spot companies with superior Sales Growth, Profit Margins, and % Return on Equity.

5. ACCUMULATION / DISTRIBUTION RATING?: This important rating, unavailable elsewhere, accurately tracks the relative degree of professional buying (accumulation) and selling (distribution) in a particular stock over the last 13 weeks. Updated daily, stocks are rated on an A+ to E scale.

A = Heavy buying to E = Heavy selling

Online Resources: You can use the Stock Quotes & News investing tool on for a quick view of SmartSelect Ratings for any stock!

NYSE and NASDAQ Combined

5 Vital Ratings for 2,500 Leading

NYSE & Nasdaq Stocks

IBD's New Research Tables Help You See Top Performers in Seconds!

1. Boldfaced Composite Rating: Any stock with Composite Rating 95 or higher. . . making it easy for you to scan for top-rated stocks.

2. Volume % Change: IBD's unique supply and demand indicator when combined with

a stock's price change is the truest measure of trading in a stock. A quality stock up in

price with a big volume % change could be the first hint big investors (mutual funds,

etc.) may be moving into a stock, which is likely to push up the price over time.

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3. Underlined Stocks: Stock closed at a new 52-week low or price is down at least $1.00.

4. Boldfaced Stocks: Stock closed at a new 52-week high or price is up at least $1.00.

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6. Stocks With a Dot: Denotes that a New America or IBD 100 story was written about the

company in the past six months.

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