CAN SLIM is an acronym developed by the American investor William O'Neil, intended to represent the seven characteristics that top-performing stocks often share before making their biggest price gains.
The method was named the top-performing investment strategy from 1998-2009 by the American Association of Individual Investors.[1][2] In 2015, an exchange-traded fund (ETF) was launched focusing on the companies listed on the IBD 50, a computer-generated list published by Investors Business Daily that highlights stocks based on the CAN SLIM investment criteria.[3]