Patent ID: 7251627

Claim:
A method of buying and selling stocks for an investment portfolio comprising: a) identifying a universe of stocks from a stock database that meets the following criteria: i) consistently pay dividends; ii) have a debt to equity ratio of 20% or less; iii) fall within a predetermined industry sector group; iv) within a prior three year period have rising or stable sales, profits and profits per share on a yearly quarter basis; and v) meet a predetermined credit rating; b) for each stock of the universe, establishing target buy and sell prices based on an approximate three year price history for the stock, the established target buy price being approximately the three year low for the stock and the target sale price being approximately 40% greater than the target buy price; and c) monitoring each of the stocks of the universe on a daily basis and buying selected stocks when they reach the target buy price and selling selected stocks held when they reach the target sale price.