RE: sp? If you are new to buying stocks then soon you will discover whether you are an investor or a trader. I bought shares in EVR over the past month as an investment with a time horizon of 6 months with the hopeful anticipated fruition from my purchace. There are many factors I used to make this decision.
However if you are a trader then you want to stick to charts and moving averages as this is what the professional traders use to guage when to buy or to sell.