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• C HAP T E R •

Dojo Training: Following a Proven

Strategy to Find Winning Stocks

“When the student is ready, the master will appear.”

—BUDDHIST PROVERB

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The CAN SLIM Investing System helps you find the market’s biggest winners by
looking for the traits that they have in common prior to making their big
moves.

What Do the Market’s Biggest Winners Have in Common?
In the 1960s, IBD Chairman and Founder William J. O’Neil asked this
question as a young stock broker and studied all of the market’s biggest win-
ners going back to 1950 (IBD’s ongoing study of the market’s best perform-
ing stocks now goes back to 1880). He also did not want to leave any
performance details out, so even though computers were in their infancy, he
hired programmers and statisticians to catalog stock data so he could see if
it somehow made more sense. And it did. His visionary approach to apply-

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