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by jqpabc123 1491 days ago
Yes, hindsight is 20/20.

It's easy to pick the high/sell price for the day after the day is over. Predicting this on the fly is a whole lot trickier. It's very unlikely you will catch the day's high. Unless you're psychic, you'll probably sell either too early or too late with diminished returns..

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Absolutely correct. Feetr doesn't invest on people's behalf at this point, it's purely stock discovery. The idea of showing the difference between the open price and the highest is that this is how much profit could've been made that day.

The concept that I try to push is to focus on compound interest. To start with a small amount and just keep rolling it over into (near) daily profits. Don't try to time the top, sell when you're comfortable.

The big guys are already using market sentiment analysis, so I think these are their scraps at best. I wouldn't be surprised if there is a secondary or deeper pattern in the data. For example, the highest gainers could be considered too risky for the big players.