Here's the first step in checking on any stocks you like. Start saving the first issue each month of Barron's. In the back are the weekly stock tables. After you save them for several months, do like I do.
When you find a stock you like, look it up and write down the closing price for the stock each month. I also offer a monthly database service that has the volume, price and other important information on over 2,300 stocks to help you. See the enclosed flyer for more information. Then if you want, make a spreadsheet on the stock and chart it to see how it would have done under the system for the last 12 months or so. Of course you should pick as your starting month, a month where the price was at or near the 52-week low, that is the cardinal rule for picking stocks in the system. As you get more experienced, you'll be able to just glance at monthly prices and see if the stock has the kind of fluctuations that work best. In the example shown, Barron's had an article on oil stocks, so I jotted down all the oil stocks they mentioned and checked back on their prices to find the best ones for the system.
As a personal note, on the other page in this Chapter, I jotted down my ideas for this book one night at Camp Humphreys, Korea at a local Korean hotel while on TDY; those ideas led to this book. Never ignore an idea. It can lead you to a whole new life.