I’m 32, been investing for ~5 years now, follow a mix of long term + swing trading – long term mostly US big tech like MSFT/Meta/Google and some Indian mutual funds (getting ~20%+ XIRR so that part is sorted).
but on the short term side i try to do swing trades and honestly still figuring it out… earlier i used to just pick stocks randomly based on basic stuff like market cap and YoY growth but realised most of that is already priced in, so shifted more towards news/event based bets which worked sometimes but still feels inconsistent and i keep missing good opportunities early, entries/exits are also not very clear, have read things like Peter Lynch but more interested in how people actually do this in real life today – like how do you guys shortlist stocks before they run, how do you spot potential multibaggers early, and how do you decide entry/exit especially for swings and filter real signals from all the noise in news, looking for practical workflows/tools that actually work consistently