With all of the choices out there, making good stock trading picks can be difficult. Here are 3 strategies.

Everybody’s looking for it. Like the gold rush from long ago, the modern day gold rush just might be the great stock pick that will allow you to quit your job, send your child to college, or simply take the vacation that you have always dreamed about.

At the end of each investing day, you can turn on any financial network and read a list of the biggest stock movers of the day. We often find the great stock pick at the end of the day rather than the beginning. If you’re a day trader, it doesn’t help to find out after the fact.