$ADBE is really a Wall Street darling at the moment.

Today, even their advertising is the best of Silicon Valley

I no longer own the stock but caught a meaty move in 2013.

For years it had sputtered.

Back in 2006, when I thought of Adobe I thought of ‘flash’ and in the beginning era of YouTube, ‘flash’ was a big topic of discussion. I wrote this show for us at Wallstrip and created this character. Flash forward to minute 2 if you want to see our punchline, but watch the whole show to remind yourself what Adobe does:

In 2012, I started following it when a smart digital marketing friend (Darren Herman) write about it.

I dove into it during a December 2012 Momentum Monday and shared my buy on Stocktwits:

I bought the stock and shared it:

@howardlindzon just wanted to say a quick txs for the $ADBE call in Momentum Modays ;-p

— WaveStock.com (@cousinHub) Dec. 14 at 08:55 AM

The chart below is the breakout in late 2012. I took it earlier than I likely should have, but I had conviction in the catalysts provided by Darren and also Ben at Stratchery.

As of this morning, the stock is up 100 percent…not bad.

To review how I get my best stock market trend ideas:

1. I get my best ideas from people that don’t care much about stocks or markets. It’s one of the reasons I love ‘angel’ investing and reading technology blogs and following ‘smart people’ (build your peloton around industries and companies).

2. I take real notice if I can understand a catalyst (Adobe had a few).

3. I love it when I can understand the catalyst and industry (why I mostly avoid components, cyclical stocks, banks (balance sheets), airlines) so the news cycles don’t shake me out.

4. I flesh the idea out constantly on the Stocktwits streams.

5. I let price get me in and price and my risk profile get me out.

6. Important for markets to be in a positive trend for best results.

7. REPEAT.

8. Stay under 15 ideas.

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