Making Money with Stocks

Looking for some advice on how to make money from stocks? Over at the Motley Fool there's an article by James Early, influenced by the investing techniques of Warren Buffett and Peter Lynch.
Here's his top ten tips for choosing the right blue chip stocks to add to your portfolio..

1. Find strong -- but not majority -- management ownership.
2. Look for management that's been with the business a long time.
3. Seek businesses with dominating, unapproachable brands.
4. Find companies whose returns on capital exceed their costs of capital.
5. Hunt for stocks with prominent negative catalysts that the market may be focusing excessively on.
6. Favor companies with the potential to go global -- it leaves more room for growth.
7. Identify businesses pursuing less-contested markets or niches.
8. Find companies unafraid to return money to shareholders -- it says a lot about the character of management.
9. Don't automatically shy away from new management that has proved itself in related situations -- management change can be a great turnaround catalyst.
10. Buy companies whose businesses and industries you know really, really well.

Read the rest of the article over at Motley Fool.

# Stock Market Investing