There are thousands of stocks trading on U.S. exchanges right now. And there are thousands more trading on major foreign exchanges. So there are clearly lots of opportunities out there at any given time.

The million-dollar question: How do you separate the wheat from the chaff? Heck, I spend every single day following the markets and researching great income investments … and there’s still no way I can easily study a fraction of the stocks out there!

To make matters worse, the biggest names tend to hog all the limelight from analysts and the mainstream media. So it’s extremely hard to find new, off-the-radar investment ideas, especially ones that will meet your personal investment goals.

Today, I want to tell you how you can whittle down a universe of stocks to a manageable group of names worth investigating more thoroughly ……