How to select shares...

I've been doing some researching into TA and am interested in basing my investing/trading off of trends. My goal is not to trade too often, months-years in a trend only shorter if stopped out or trend changes quicker. Now I could just pick any stock that is in an up trend but I feel this isn't the safest. I'd like to ensure I can sell when I want without having to wait days for someone wanting to buy, so I figure I need a certain amount of liquidity in the stock. I also figure it's best to be in a stock that actually is making money, sure a company can be losing money have it's share price can increase but it doesn't seem like a long term winning strategy for the company, I'd like to avoid companies like this if possible.

I'm looking at putting somewhere between 10-20k in per share.

So what do others do to restrict the companies they buy into when using TA?
Volume/value traded per day?
How many shares are available? (If 3 owners own 75% of the shares is this an added risk for TA?)
Is profitable?
How long it's been traded for? (If it's only been round a year then it's hard to see what the share price has done in the past.)
Certain types of companies to avoid? Are some stocks/industries better for TA?
Should it be paying out a dividend?
Certain market capitalization?
Certain amount of debt or lack of it?

Any ideas or suggestions or comments on what you've done would be helpful.

So no one else does any sort of fundamental analysis on which shares they plan doing TA on? I thought this would be a common thing.

I don't plan on trading Briscoes as it has shareholder that owns 75% from memory and in the last month no more than $40k worth of trades was done on any one day. For me this seems too small, if I want to sell $20k of shares I might have to wait a week and will probably influence the share price due to the size of my sell order.

Surely others do something similar, I'm keen to hear what others do so that I might learn how to improve my system.