I have been browsing through caps.fool.com, its a site where thousands of investors discuss and rate stocks. I'm a trust and Investment management major so i understand the basics of the "by the books" ways of judging a company's performance. My biggest issue is not being able to look for up-coming investments. There seems to be alot of talk about valuation. If possible id like for someone to give me an idea of what YOU look at when investing in both short term and long term investments. I haven't reached the courses yet in my curriculum which teach the advanced skills on investment analysis which seems to be what i need. i would apprieciate any help you could give toward giving me some rules, guidelines, #'s that you look for. Investments like PCU (Southern Copper) i look at & do the "Basic Math" and their performance just doesn't match at all with how the stock is acting. The company is just "ok" but the stock is soaring. Any idea how people find stocks like this?I look at stock performance charts and go "Wow that is exploding"... but then you wait and see that it most of the time comes back down. What im looking is the BEST way to look at companies and narrow down my choices, so that i can get in AHEAD of the explosions, not just riding coat-tails or following others. Thank you so much for any help you can provide me.

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Just look to the stock previous development and history and you analyzing it.

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