I invented a framework that you'll find in Motley Fool Rule Breakers that has served me

well over the years.

It's called The Five and Three.

The idea is for any stock that you're researching or buying or holding, what are five key things you're looking for to go right?

Five green flags, five bullish signs you're watching for.

And what are three things you're looking for

that boy you hope not, but what are three key things three red flags that might go wrong and if they

did go wrong if those red flags started waving you'd start to consider and

rightly so perhaps selling.

So there you have it, five green flags,

three red flags.

That's my so-called five and three.

And with every buy report we put out,

three every month for years and years now our members get our five and three for

that stock but here's the thing why five and why three why not two green flags and ten red ones.

As has often been pointed out there's an inherent positive bias in the five and three

that I believe serves me and you well,

not five and five, not three and three, five and three.

There's more I could say here for context and explanation sake, but that's not the key point this week anyway.

More to the point, my guess this week may persuade me that even that positive

enough.

directionally, I think Shurzad Shamin

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