IBD and O'Neil stocks do better than most in a true, secular bull market. In a sideways or lesser market, they are outright dangerous.
aaronk, The 200 list come out on Thursday. Pick it up once a month, cost less than a cup so SBUX coffee. I load them into a watchlist on http://www.prophet.net/ and I look at a 6 month chart displayed 12 on a page, looking for certain patterns that may be setting up, saves time from having to look them at one by one. Here's a few that I saw just now: GES is in a triangle formation right now. HOLX is just below the $60 breakout level MFW is in a little cup&handle ready to go. PCAR in a rising channel, looking for it to comes down and bounce off the 71 area.
If you play the momo high growth game buy the dips and dont buy all at once. For example I bought more Goog at 450, MA at 90, and some GS at 200 following the selloff a few weeks ago. Now I'm ahead on all those and made more money than my 1/20 tick daytrader friends. Thats it bud. You have "traded" for all of 3 fucking years. You are the biggest cheerleader of a dying bull mkt. You have no clue what diversification or risk management means. You are the poster child of momo. MA is dead in the water at best. GOOG is 2 years ago story. GS is held hostage to a dead mkt. You chime on and on about a fucking monster rally coming? The mkt is flat to down since the end of fucking NOVEMBER. You are a clueless piker. You are also a putz. March 2000 is what you dream of, I retired that month.