Penny Stock Picks
For some time, I’ve been doing research on many of these websites that offer you free e-mails that will inform you on buying penny stocks that will make you money. It’s amazing how many websites are out there that are doing that exact thing. But are they really helping anyone make any money with their penny stock picks?
Let’s start with the concept of someone giving you free advice on which stock to buy and when to buy it. What’s in it for them? That’s the first question that comes to mind when I think of these websites. If they send you free e-mails and don’t ask you for any money on return, then how do they make their money? To get one thing straight… getting a tip on a stock is not the way to play the stock market. You need to do your own research on the stock that you are looking to purchase. Don’t be what I refer to as being a penny stock chaser.
These websites are more designed to get others to buy into stocks that they’ve already set up a position in and are waiting for the “new” investors to jump on the band-wagon and cause the price to go up. When that happens, they will scale out of their position and leave those who are not as quick to get out before the price drops back to where it was.
In my research of these websites, I signed up for their e-mails and track how the stock moved. In many of these cases ( over 85%), I would never own or invest into any of these stocks. Their balance sheet and the financial reports of these companies did not look good. As a matter of fact, one company in particular WDAS.PK, was being hyped by three different websites. What did the stock do from the e-mails? What happened was unbelievable. The first alert was on Sunday Oct. 11th. Telling their subscribers to buy at $0.05, but when the stock opened on Monday it was at $.40. Updated alerts went on stating that the climb wasn’t over and to buy at $0.40 – $1.20 per share. I will say that those who timed it well, made a ton of money if they sold their shares around $1.85 – $2.00. It hit a high of $2.00 before closing at $1.85. In just two trading days it closed at $0.48.
During the entire 10 trading days from when they first talked about WDAS.PK, the stock went up and back down again to where the ride started at. As of this past Friday, Nov. 20th, it closed at $.20 per share. Was it good to “play” this stock tip? Only if you were able to watch the day to day activity of the stock, was it worth it. The stock came down a lot quicker than it went up. I’m sure many didn’t get out in time and suffer a loss.
My advice to you is to do your own research and not to take anyone’s advice at face value. Just because someone or some website says it good, doesn’t make it so. I know it may be harder to do research on companies that trade on the pink sheets because usually these companies don’t have analyst watching them. Some information is out there, but you have to watch for fluff articles that publicist put out to help boast interest in the company.
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A List Of Penny Stocks
Buying penny stocks seem to be easy to do and in a sense it is, but the hard part is trying to pick the right ones to make a profit. There are many sites out there in the internet world that offer you a list of penny stocks and all you have to do is give them your e-mail.
If you really think about it for a minute, why is someone that you never met and most likely never will, want to give you a list of penny stocks that he recommends for no charge? What a great guy that he would want to help total strangers make money in the stock market and do it at no cost to you.
Because in a sales pitch like stock trading you have to give away something to get the person to see if you know what you’re talking about. Trading in penny stocks is big money for brokers and the houses they work for.Why is it that penny stocks seem to be a big thing within the stock market? Well actually they’re not as big as you may think in regards to owning the shares. The smart money ( the pros of Wall Street) don’t buy and sell penny stocks, there’s too much risk involved. Instead if they want to get into a company that has it’s shares at penny stock levels, they’ll actually loan them the money with interest.
They may seem like a big thing to you and others that you may speak with, but not when it comes to the smart money on Wall Street. It’s the amateur trader and the day trader that wants to trade in penny stocks on a regular basis. The reason for that is that they have the reputation of having big percentage gains (or losses) in any given day. You can make (or lose) a load boat load of money real quick.
If you’re looking to get a list of penny stocks and plan on buying and selling them, be careful, it can cost a lot more than just a few pennies.
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