Growth Stock Pre-Buy Checklist

Growth investing without a pre-buy process is pattern-matching — the story sounds right, the chart looks good, the momentum is there. A structured checklist converts pattern-matching into process-based investing.

Why This Matters

O'Neil's CANSLIM system established that consistently profitable growth investing requires both a qualitative business quality filter and a quantitative price/volume discipline. Neither alone is sufficient: quality without price awareness produces overpaying; price momentum without quality produces chasing. This ten-step checklist integrates both disciplines into a sequential process where each step must be passed before the next is evaluated.