The Most Profitable Groups Of Shares Or Currencies To Trade
In spite of the trend toward diversity, most of the hundreds of stocks in the stock market can be grouped into one product or service category or another.
Which group is for you? Well, there are about fifty clearly defined industries in this country, even more if you are particular enough to separate aircraft manufacturers from airline operators, or natural gas from oils, or Class 1 railroads from lesser lines. Even these groupings are by no means complete. The list could be fleshed out with banks, insurance companies, leather-products companies, glass and container manufacturers, shipbuilders and fleet operators, textile millers, sugar growers, and radio and television manufacturers and broadcasters.
All of this reflects the wonderful and confusing diversity of American industry. Among it all there should be a few good stocks to buy. Indeed, there are. But it will not take much investigation to learn that each of these industrial groupings has a reputation, and that even the best reputations may be subject to cyclical slumps. These reputations are variously described, but roughly they can be said...