A good method of trading involves trading around a "core" of stocks you're familiar with. I've had good success doing this. In a nutshell, you primarily trade stocks that you are very experienced in. In this sense, you become an expert at these stocks, the companies, and the ranges that they typically trade at. Buy when they are low and sell when they swing up.
With enough experince, you can use both fundamentals and technicals to trade these stocks for easy profits.

Some of my recent core stocks:
EGLE
WNR
CVX
XOM
At this time, EGLE and WNR are my main core stocks....so happens they are also buys as of today according to my analysis.