in brief

It's pretty easy to guess when a stock is about to make a big move but not so easy to do so reliably.

Get a collection of charts and guess which stocks are about to make a big move. Figure out some way to record your guesses.

If you guess wrong and the stock goes down not up, some of the time it will come back.

If you have the money you could try investing a small amount in each of, say, 20 situations - if you invest $100 in each one, that's $2000. Let's face it, some will be losers, some might be winners. At least you'll have the experience.

Go to Finviz.com. On the home page, click one of the symbols. On the chart page you get, look for the publish chart link. The fixed chart lets you keep a record of what the chart looked like at that moment. The dynamic chart let's you put a chart on a page that will always be up to date (when you load the page). You can put those charts into web pages, and build your record keeping system that way.