If you can follow only one bit of data, follow the earnings - assuming the company in question has earnings. I subscribe to the crusty notion that sooner or later earnings make or break an investment in equities. What the stock price does today, tomorrow, or next week is only a distraction.
Peter LynchImagine if you borrowed your parents' car without permission and ran it into a tree, how much better you'd feel if you were incorporated.
Peter LynchIt's human nature to keep doing something as long as it's pleasurable and you can succeed at it, which is why the world population continues to double every 40 years.
Peter Lynch