From Bulgaria To San Diego: How To Scan The Stock Market For Winning Trades

Mainstream media loves a good headline. And the struggling stock market participant is quick to buy into its sensationalism. Over the last few years we’ve seen a rise in conversation about anything related to the phrase market manipulation. We’ve seen complaints about insider trading, politics, high frequency trading, and rogue algorithms. While it’s possible these phrases do add an element of sinisterness to the stock market, it is not the final say.

Meet Ivaylo Ivanhoff. Known by many as @ivanhoff, or simply Ivan. He grew up in Bulgaria — more than 4,000 miles away from the finance capitol New York City. Today, he runs his own investment service out of beautiful San Diego. So how did he make this journey? He found his edge.

Over the last several years, Ivan has studied the market looking for key characteristics common in many of history’s biggest stock market winners. He’s written two books on his methodology The Next Apple: How To Find Stocks That Could Go Up 1000% and The 5 Secrets To Highly Profitable Swing Trading. Using free screening services available to anyone on the internet, Ivan scans the entire universe of investable stocks and weeds out the ones that do not fit his criteria. He ranks them, picks the top 50 names, adds them to a list he personally maintains, and then uses the practice of trend following to find entry and exit points.

None of this requires anything more than functioning access to the internet and a sheet of paper and a pen to write down your list. Does that sound sinister to you? Anyone can do it. Or even better, anyone can follow and connect with Ivanhoff thanks to social media.

Now sit back and listen to our latest interview with Ivan. You’ll learn more about his simple and commonsense approach to trading and investing: