Matt,

This was more in reference to stocks such as IPT. The stocks you named were pretty much no brainers! Though, who would have guessed Harley Davidson back in the 80's.
When the charts are charging upward, it's hard to lose. Many business's are cyclical such as semiconductor equipment and if you don't really understand the biz you may get burned just reading the financials and the charts. That is unless you go back 10 years and that's only if they are old enough to do so....Mac