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Buying penny stocks can also really risky. But you can lower that risk by researching the stocks. Although this takes a long, long time and is very difficult to do.. Wouldn&#8217;t it be nice if you could find out what stocks were going to be hot? If some magical genie could tell you when to [...]]]></description>
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<p>Buying penny stocks can also really risky. But you can lower that risk by researching the stocks. Although this takes a long, long time and is very difficult to do.. Wouldn&#8217;t it be nice if you could find out what stocks were going to be hot? If some magical genie could tell you when to buy and when to sell? Well there is no perfect formula to stocks. But there are definitely ways to improve your chances of picking a winner. I have always wanted to get in the stock Market but Have always been way to fearful of the losses. I was looking for some kind of &#8220;genie&#8221; and guess what I found one! Now I&#8217;m not going to tell you to buy this thing because I want you to go and but all the books out there on stocks first&#8230; then when your head is about to explode from all the info you just crammed in your head you can come back and look at what I&#8217;m saying. </p>
<p>This &#8220;genie&#8221; I found was call &#8220;Marl&#8221; and he is a stock bot.<br />
He has no emotions, so he can pick stocks on cold hard statistics. He can also analyze 100s of stocks in the time it would take a stock analyst to do one! Like I said there is always risks with stocks but &#8220;Marl&#8221; almost eliminates the chance for failure. For the full story on &#8220;Marl&#8221; check out his site at <a href="http://26532.affstocks.hop.clickbank.net/"  target="_top">Stock &#8220;Bot&#8221; </a></p>

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Penny Stocks &#8211; Turn Your Pennies Into Dollars
We&#8217;ve all heard about the investor how bragged about his 100% or 1000% return on a stock or about the guy who made it rich by investing in small caps, undiscovered stocks that made it big. In theory, it seems to be too easy. Invest in a couple [...]]]></description>
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<p>We&#8217;ve all heard about the investor how bragged about his 100% or 1000% return on a stock or about the guy who made it rich by investing in small caps, undiscovered stocks that made it big. In theory, it seems to be too easy. Invest in a couple of penny stocks, then sell them when they move up. Unfortunately, it is too easy. Too easy to lose money unless you know what to look for.</p>
<p>First, lets have a look at what types of companies trade on the OTC BB or Pink Sheets. </p>
<p>Stocks that no longer trade over $1 on the Nasdaq<br />
These include companies that fell from grace (Enron). While it is possible that they may see better days in the future, the odds are stacked against them. Its usually best to avoid trading these stocks. If you feel that the temptation is too much, wait until the stock begins to rebound. If you try catching a falling knife, you will get hurt.</p>
<p>New Start Ups<br />
Every year there are hundreds if not thousands of companies who decided to go public. Whether they need the money to expand their business, or are looking to cash out their equity, its a natural progression for a company with a compelling story, and a great track record to go public. While many of these companies will file for an IPO, many others will start off trading on the OTC BB as a penny stock</p>
<p>Second, lets look at some tips to help the penny stock trader avoid making costly mistakes.</p>
<p>Due Diligence<br />
Stocks listed on the Pink Sheets don&#8217;t have to file annual or quarterly statements. This makes starting your due diligence difficult. Often, the information is sketchy at best, and typically, its biased. You should expect a shareholder to say good things about the company. If the company didn&#8217;t have potential, they wouldn&#8217;t be holding it. Or, they might be hoping to unload their shares and hope to talk you into buying. </p>
<p>Stocks listed on the OTC BB file annual and quarterly statements. This provides some measure of financial success. You&#8217;ll find most penny stocks lose money, whether through managerial incompetence, or research and development. The key is to identify the companies whose management has a record of consistently making money, or at the very least, delivering on their business plan, and decreasing expenses. </p>
<p>Penny Stock Newsletters<br />
Being a writer for The Leading Source (http://www.1source4stocks.com) puts me in a biased position when speaking to penny stock newsletters. Here&#8217;s what I can tell you: be careful! Check the disclaimer for the amount the newsletter is being paid to carry the profile. Are they being paid in cash or in shares? You&#8217;ll likely find a corelation between the number of shares they are being paid, and the rating on the hype meter. Does that mean that you should avoid any stock where the company is paying IR professionals in shares? No. Just keep in mind that they are selling a story, and if they sell the story to other shareholders, they will gain. This is not a problem if you get in early, but could be a problem if you aren&#8217;t able to jump in right away.</p>
<p>Take a look at the track record of the newsletter. Have they profiled winners? Do they state the facts, or state the hype? Do they also offer unpaid stock profiles? If they do, you&#8217;ll likely find that they do their own research in all companies, and are looking to ensure that they aren&#8217;t passing a weak stock your way just to pay the bills. </p>
<p>If a company is paying an IR professional money to profile a stock to its subscribers, should you avoid it? Of course not. Think of the payment as advertising. They are promoting the company, and trying to get exposure. Like any company, the only way to get exposure is through some method of advertising. So dont dismiss a paid profile as hype. Keep it in the back of your mind while you are reading the profile, but pay attention to the profile. You may find a diamond in the rough that no one has discovered.</p>
<p>Volume<br />
If you want to make money, you have to be able to buy and sell enough shares to lock in your profit, or protect your capital. If ABC company&#8217;s daily volume is only 500 shares a day, it may take you several days to accumulate a position worth taking. If there is bad news, who is going to buy your shares? If the volume is low, stay away. Its not worth it. If you feel that strongly about owning the company, consider contacting the company directly and working out a deal.</p>
<p>Buy Results, Not the Story<br />
If you buy the hype, odds are, you will end up being the last one to own the shares, while everyone else has sold off their position. Look at a company, take a look at what their business plan was, and confirm if they have followed through on that plan. Were they successful? Did they bring a product to market on time? Did the company follow through on its acquisition strategy in the manner they set out? The hype might get you a quick pop, however, unless you are watching your trading screen every second of the trading day, you will miss out.</p>
<p>Size matters<br />
There are thousands upon thousands of penny stocks. The size of your position should not be anymore than $2000 &#8211; $3000. While this may not seem like much, keep in mind that its not unusual for a $0.10 company to drop to $0.05. That&#8217;s a 50% loss. If your position is $10 000, a 50% haircut leaves you with only $5000. Keep your losses to a minimum. If the company has done well, and you are up, either take your profits off the table, or add to your position, and be sure to reset your stop loss so as to protect your previous profits. Capital preservation is the key to successful trading.</p>
<p>Have a plan before you buy. What are your reasons for buying. What is your exit strategy? Where is your stop loss? At what point will you take your profit? Write down these answers before you place that buy order. </p>
<p>Penny stock investing can be profitable. Remember, you are taking larger risks than you would if you were purchasing shares in a bank stock. That risk can be rewarded with returns that you cant get with a bank stock, or, it will be met with a large loss and a bad taste in your mouth for investing in penny stocks.</p>
<p>Do your homework, don&#8217;t believe the hype, and protect your capital. </p>
<p>Note: The Leading Source provides its subscribers with both paid and unpaid profiles. Follow those tips and you will watch your pennies grow into dollars.</p>

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Penny Stocks can be a great investment, but you have to know what to look for, or sometimes more accurately, what to look out for. Buying Penny Stocks based on a recent email you received, or what you heard from someone you barely know, is not usually a good idea. Penny Stocks have historically been [...]]]></description>
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<p>Penny Stocks can be a great investment, but you have to know what to look for, or sometimes more accurately, what to look out for. Buying Penny Stocks based on a recent email you received, or what you heard from someone you barely know, is not usually a good idea. Penny Stocks have historically been a source of wealth for many investors, but conversely have been the source of countless lost small fortunes. Determining what is good advice, mixed with all the hype, can sometimes be a very difficult process. You don&#8217;t have to be a stock market guru or brilliant investor to make a killing with Penny Stocks, but you do have to be willing to do your homework, and use a great deal of common sense to stay alive when you are swimming with the sharks in what can be dangerous waters.</p>
<p>There are many great small companies in existence today, struggling to stay afloat, that are tomorrow&#8217;s rising stars. Without the capital to grow and expand very few of our current generation of conglomerates would be more than a forgotten flash in the pan. Selling shares of a company can inject the needed capital into a niche business that may take it into the next level. However not all, if not most, of these tiny corporations will be around for very long. This creates an interesting situation for us, the investor or speculator. While the company in question may not be worth much today, what might that company be worth tomorrow? Hence the term speculation, which is the lifeblood of any Penny Stock trader.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, within this world there are a few unseemly characters, who seek to part you from your hard earned dollars. And, they will go to nearly whatever means is necessary to achieve their goal. PR firms, or Investor Awareness firms, are sometime hired to promote a small corporation&#8217;s stock in hopes of raising the share price. This in itself is not necessarily a sign of ill intent. Many times a small company may be very good at what it does, but for whatever reason finds itself unable to generate enough press interest in their successes to generate buying activity of their stock shares. However, this is occasionally done with the sole purpose of raising prices rapidly in an attempt to make quick profits on a very hollow company, one that has no real market or solid foundation. Hence the phrase, pump and dump. Pump and dump in a nutshell means, exaggeratedly &#8220;pumping&#8221; up the company in question with the primary intent of &#8220;dumping&#8221; their shares once the share prices begin to rise.</p>
<p>What can you do to protect yourself from being caught up in a pump and dump scenario? Most importantly you must use your own due diligence to wade through the hype. Ask yourself a few basic questions about the company in question. Are they making money? Are they creating new products? Are these new products going to be valuable in the future? The rules for trading Penny Stocks aren&#8217;t much different from those of trading large cap stocks. However, the risks can be much larger, but the rewards can be as well.</p>
<p>If you aren&#8217;t willing to do at least a bit of homework, investing in any stock is not a good idea. Never rely entirely on anyone&#8217;s advice, especially when dealing with Penny Stocks. But, if you take the time to research your investments, investing in Penny Stocks can be a very financially rewarding experience.</p>

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<p>Why should the rich guys have all the fun? The small investor can seek out huge returns too&#8230;if they know how. </p>
<p>Technical analysis that uses statistics for forecasting price fluctuations is one approach. However, because it is difficult to track changes in fractions of a penny, there simply isnt enough data to be able to analyze. Therefore, you have to keep an ear to the ground when you trade penny stocks. </p>
<p>One of the biggest forces that drive penny stock prices is hype. Whether its online in discussion forums or chats, or offline with publicity and press, hype can cause swings in penny stock prices. </p>
<p>Are you looking to trade penny stocks to earn a good return on your money? Penny stocks can be profitable for some, but it can also be a money-losing experience. </p>
<p>What should you watch for when you trade penny stocks? </p>
<p>What are some strategies that professionals and amateurs use when dabbling in the penny stock trade? </p>
<p>One technique that some experts who trade penny stocks implement is to focus on a particular stock. Get to know the stock inside and out; that is, get to know the company behind the stock, any news about that company, and anything else that might affect the stock price. Target one stock, listen to the buzz, and see how the stock responds. The louder the buzz gets, the larger the potential for a big price swing. </p>
<p>Many people who trade penny stocks are small-time investors who dont have more than $1,000 of investment capital. These people trade penny stocks because it gives them more shares for the money. </p>
<p>Where they might be able to buy dozens of shares in a major exchange such as the New York Stock Exchange, they can buy hundreds when they trade penny stocks. The potential for loss is big, however. Its almost closer to gambling than investing. The money used is strictly risk capital. Once the money is gone, its gone. </p>
<p>Another subset of people that trade penny stocks are amateur investors who use the buy and hold strategy. They purchase a stock and retain it for long periods of time, hoping that the stock skyrockets at some point in the future. </p>
<p>Unfortunately, this strategy hardly ever pays off in the way that the investor had hoped. In the long-term, the stock could end up being completely worthless. </p>
<p>Trading penny stocks can be a profitable, and even fun way to invest. It certainly isnt a traditional method of investing, and is unlike old standbys such as bonds and mutual funds. However, trading penny stocks isnt for all people. </p>
<p>You should have a high tolerance for risk, a willingness to analyze every minutiae of your penny stock, and some intestinal fortitude. Have fun with penny stock trading, but dont expect to stumble into the next WalMart for pennies on the dollar. </p>
<p>And remember, as with anything else in life with high potential for gain there is also high potential for loss. Do your homework, follow your rules, and plan to prosper.</p>

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Before investing your hard-earned cash into penny stocks, it is important to research the penny stocks you want to invest in before committing any cash.. You want to find profitable penny stocks. To do this, youll need penny stock leads. Leads are just names of penny stocks that you are thinking of investing in. 
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<p>Before investing your hard-earned cash into penny stocks, it is important to research the penny stocks you want to invest in before committing any cash.. You want to find profitable penny stocks. To do this, youll need penny stock leads. Leads are just names of penny stocks that you are thinking of investing in. </p>
<p>There are many ways to get penny stock leads. For example, searching the internet (blogs and forums), joining a penny stock mailing list or keeping an eye out on the news. The main idea is to build a list of around 5 to 10 quality leads that are worthy of your money. </p>
<p>After you have a list of leads, youll want to choose one or two of them. Youll need to go through your list and discard stocks which do not meet your criteria. This process can be tedious but it will be well worth it in the end.</p>
<p>The criteria that I look for include &#8211; company history, business plan, opinions of individuals and experts, financial information, competition, track record of the board of directors, company reports and broker recommendations. Using the variables, I can quickly establish whether a particular stock is worth investing in.</p>
<p>Once my list has been cut down to 1 or 2 stocks, Ill ask for opinions from other people to confirm my selections. It is very important to listen to the views of other investors because, in most cases, theyll have something valuable to contribute to your research. Perhaps, you missed out a vital piece of information which other investors could highlight for you.</p>
<p>Now that I have 1 or 2 stocks out of my original list of 10, I feel confident that I have done my due diligence and I am ready to invest. I use this process every time Im investing in penny stocks and , so far, it has been simple but profitable.</p>

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If you are looking are thinking that Penny Stocks are a Get Rich Quick Scheme, Im sorry to disappoint you. Although great fortunes can be made from penny stocks, people can also lose everything they invest in Penny Stocks. The most important investment you can make at the start of your investment career is to [...]]]></description>
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<p>If you are looking are thinking that Penny Stocks are a Get Rich Quick Scheme, Im sorry to disappoint you. Although great fortunes can be made from penny stocks, people can also lose everything they invest in Penny Stocks. The most important investment you can make at the start of your investment career is to invest in education. </p>
<p>Why Education and not stock?</p>
<p>Diving head first into the stock market is a great way of losing your money which is why we dont recommend it. The best thing to do is to read, read and read some more before investing. One of the best places to get free information on penny stocks and trading methods is from the internet. </p>
<p>Forums, websites, news sites and eBooks are a great way to improve your penny stock investment education. There are some great books that you can borrow from libraries or purchase cheaply from shops. </p>
<p>When reading on the internet, please be cautious of stock recommendations and strategies and methods. Stock recommendations and opinions from internet forums can be biased and cannot be fully trusted without doing your own research. Similarly, eBooks with strategies which promise great returns usually do not work as suggested. The reason for this is, even if the strategy worked well for the author, there is no guarantee that it will work for everyone else because everyone is different although you may learn something that you did not already know.</p>
<p>Google News has a business section which is group for free up-to-date information on stocks. Yahoo Finance also has good news section and also provides free charts and company information. </p>
<p>No matter who you get advice from, whether its from a financial consultant or friend, you should always carry out your own additional research. You should make decisions based on facts rather than opinions.</p>
<p>When you feel confident enough you can try some test trades. You can either keep a record of your trades on paper or you can use a stocks simulator website where you invest with fake money. There is a website called Champion Investor (ChampInvest.com) which is great for this purpose as it also calculates profits and losses automatically. Also, if you the top performer of the month, you will be rewarded with 1000. </p>
<p>Using a stock simulator means that you will not lose your hard-earned cash if you make a bad investment. Instead, you will learn not to do it again without losing your money.</p>
<p>If you are consistently able to make a profit with your test trades then you can move onto the real thing. Keep your investment strategy exactly as it was when you were making profitable test trades, but instead of using fake money, you will be using your own money through a stock broker.</p>
<p>So, to summarise &#8211; if you are looking to get started in penny stocks, please do not dive in head first without investing your education first.</p>

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Investing in Penny Stocks &#8211; How To Make Huge Profit From Small Beginnings
Investing in penny stocks is all about defining the rules and playing by them as all of the big time investors have before you.
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Investing in Penny Stocks &#8211; How To Make Huge Profit From Small Beginnings</p>
<p>Investing in penny stocks is all about defining the rules and playing by them as all of the big time investors have before you.</p>
<p>Big time stock traders and investors have played by the rules and started out small, or even very small, swearing by a defined set of rules that basically state they will not continue any cycle of failing that loses them money, over and over.</p>
<p>Losing money instead of learning these rules is something that is unacceptable and potentially crippling to a new investor &#8211; even though your brain is trying to tell you that &#8220;Heck, it doesn&#8217;t matter, they&#8217;re only Penny Stocks after all!&#8221; (Damn you brain!!)</p>
<p>However, follow a few simple rules and you should be ahead of the penny stock investing game.</p>
<p>Number One and MOST important &#8211; Never, ever, under any circumstance borrow money to invest; this is possibly the biggest rule to stay out of investment trouble.</p>
<p>Yes, I know! You think you have the upper hand with some inside information that could help you build a huge portfolio in no time!</p>
<p>So have thousands of others before you &#8211; and they were all WRONG!</p>
<p>Please, dont jump on a story with the only answer being borrowing money.  If you start to lose money on the stock market, then the debt repayment will come directly out of your pocket.  If this happens, trust me &#8211; you are now in big trouble.</p>
<p>Even if you begin to make money then you will be spending it to repay the loan instead of saving or reinvesting the funds.  This money will stand by and haunt you as you continue to try to make a living off of the stocks you are trading.  </p>
<p>Always save up to be able to invest as a rule of thumb, debt will be chased until you finally catch up by being farther behind than you were to begin with.  </p>
<p>DON&#8217;T DO IT!</p>
<p>Investing in profitable companies is a big rule to keep in mind when investing in penny stocks.  I know that reads and sounds awfully silly and a waste of breath but believe me &#8211; sometimes people simply invest in a company without determining if the company is profitable or not.</p>
<p>Either they like the name itself &#8211; or the product / service the company offers &#8211; or even they know a cousin of the manager of the typing pool and reckon it&#8217;s keeping it in the family!</p>
<p>Dont be the sucker that buys a stock and then tunes in to the television or logs on to the internet to see that its quarterly earnings are down and its revenue per share is dropping like a four-ton boulder of the Empire State building &#8211; very hard and very fast!).</p>
<p>Find information on how to find a profitable company, it is readily available on the internet, and then determine which company to invest in. Guides for how to evaluate companies, their accounts declarations and markets are readily available.</p>
<p>Also, do all of your homework, research and analysis before you buy a stock that is not garnering any type of attention. </p>
<p>One of the most important things for investors to look at is volume, anything less than one million shares per day is not worth touching.  It is a pointless task to purchase a stock that is trading 9,000 shares a day because it will be nearly impossible to sell once you are ready to do so.</p>
<p>Stocks need attention to have liquidity, which basically means that for it to sell it must have value.  Dont be stuck with a rising stock that you will be unable to sell later. Don&#8217;t just thinkof all the lovely profit you&#8217;ll generate &#8211; think about the mechanics of actually being able to realise that profit. After all &#8211; so what if you&#8217;ve made $1.20 per share in three months &#8211; if you can&#8217;t actually sell them!</p>
<p>Oh &#8211; and in case you forget! DON&#8217;T BORROW MONEY FOR INVESTING!!</p>

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If you want be a successful penny stock trader, youll need to be an intelligent trader. There are very few requirements to start trading in penny stocks. It can be broken down into three main things.
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<p>If you want be a successful penny stock trader, youll need to be an intelligent trader. There are very few requirements to start trading in penny stocks. It can be broken down into three main things.</p>
<p>1. Money:</p>
<p>The money we are talking about is not just the money that is sitting in your bank account. It is not the money that you use to pay for your rent, your car or your food. Penny stocks can be extremely unpredictable and although you might make a great deal of money it is also true that may lose everything, so it is important especially when you are starting out with penny stocks that you only use money that you can afford to lose. After you have built up a nice profit, you can re-invest your profits from past trades which will snowball your earnings.</p>
<p>2. Knowledge:</p>
<p>This is without a doubt the single most important factor in determining whether your budding career as a penny stocks investor will be a spectacular triumph or a dismal failure. If you are a newcomer to investing of any kind there are various guides you can buy and it is a good idea to read several of these before spending any money.</p>
<p>Penny Stocks: The Next American Gold Rush by Dan Holtzclaw<br />
Stock Investing for Dummies by Paul Mladjenovic<br />
The Guide for Penny Stock Investing by Donny Lowy</p>
<p>These are all good and although they will not help you with specific decisions such as whether to buy a particular penny stock, or when to sell, they give you a good background on how it all works and are invaluable in building a good knowledge base.</p>
<p>3. Make A Plan:</p>
<p>Before you investing any money, make an investment plan and stick to it at all times. This will help you become disciplined and will also help you organise your time and investments. Keeping things simple will result in less stress. Your plan should consist of the investments you are going to make and why and how much you are investing in them. It should also include your exit point (the price which you will sell your investment at to take profit) and also the time you want to allocate for your investments each day (i.e. The time it takes to monitor and research them).</p>
<p>Now you have got all the major elements in place you are set for the roller coaster ride that is the world of investing in penny stocks But remember that knowledge is the most powerful tool you have to make your penny stocks successful so start learning today.</p>

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<p>It&#8217;s been almost a month since Bill Gates announced his slow departure from Microsoft, the company he launched with Paul Allen way back in 1975.  </p>
<p>In 2008, Bill Gates, the world&#8217;s richest man, will step back from the daily operations of the company and delve into more philanthropic work.</p>
<p>Why the long goodbye?  Why not make the departure short and sweet?  Probably two reasons: to make the transition easier, and to quell the tension of nervous investors.  After all, the departure of the world&#8217;s most famous CEO cannot be an easy pill to swallow for some.</p>
<p>Though most investors have swallowed the pill with relative ease.  Since announcing his exodus, Microsoft&#8217;s share price has risen 8% and continues to gain momentum.  Maybe Gates&#8217;s recent departure plan is a textbook example of how some CEOs should let go of the reins.</p>
<p>But what does the retirement of Gates have to do with penny stocks?  A lot I think.  Microsoft started out small&#8230;just like most penny stock companies do.  And, sniffing an unexploited opportunity&#8230;they jumped in and made history.</p>
<p>And that history has spawned operations in 102 countries with a staff of 61,000.  Microsoft&#8217;s software is also used on close to 1 billion personal computers worldwide.  Regardless of whether or not you send Bill Gates a birthday card each year, you cannot underestimate the role that Microsoft has played on our society.</p>
<p>And that success has in large part, been the results of having a strong, creative management team.  Sure a lot of CEOs like to be thought of as the mast head&#8230;but Gates is a little more subdued, saying it&#8217;s important for folks to get &#8220;beyond the myth of one person doing a high percentage of things.&#8221;</p>
<p>So, if you want to invest in a successful penny stock company, look for one that is in a strong growth industry and one that has assembled a great management team.  A creative management team means that the loss of a CEO will not mean the demise of the entire company.  This is not always the case with some penny stock companies.</p>
<p>The loss of a CEO shouldn&#8217;t be disruptive; it ought to be a sign of new possibilities and fresh thinking.</p>
<p>That said, I&#8217;m not looking for the next Microsoft.  Im too impatient to wait 20 years to see giant gains.  What I want is a penny stock company with the same insight, and enthusiasm of a Bill Gates and Paul Allen.  </p>
<p>Picking a good penny stock is not easy.  It&#8217;s more than just numbers.  Ultimately it&#8217;s about the people who run the ship.  A lot of great companies never leave the harbor because their leadership is rudderless.</p>
<p>It may sound pretty basic, but I&#8217;m willing to bet that a large majority of people never investigate the management team of a penny stock company they&#8217;re interested in.</p>
<p>Want to find out if your penny stock pick has what it takes to be a winner?  A little research is all it takes.  After all&#8230;publicly traded penny stock companies are responsible to you the share holder.  </p>
<p>So if you have any questions about who&#8217;s running the company, check out their website (and they really should have one in this day and age).  Or, call the company&#8217;s Investor Relations department, or, better yet, call and ask for the CEO.</p>
<p>With a penny stock company your chances of being able to speak to the CEO directly are quite good.  Your odds of picking up the phone and speaking directly to Bill Gates and Warren Buffet are not.</p>

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Penny stocks represent an excellent investment vehicle for producing gains, while the risks are equally as high. When you finally decide to get involved in penny stocks, to go &#8216;Beyond the Brink,&#8217; there are some things you need to know. 
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<p>Penny stocks represent an excellent investment vehicle for producing gains, while the risks are equally as high. When you finally decide to get involved in penny stocks, to go &#8216;Beyond the Brink,&#8217; there are some things you need to know. </p>
<p>In fact, whether you have been burned by penny stocks in the past, or have never even invested, the following theories are designed to give you an instant and significant advantage over all those inexperienced and uninformed traders. After all, to make money in stocks someone usually has to be losing money. Which side of the fence do you want to fall on? </p>
<p>Glass Jaw </p>
<p>Lots of people have made lots of money from trading penny stocks. Lots of people have lost plenty, as well. What is the difference between a successful micro-cap trader, and one who continually takes it on the chin? </p>
<p>Uses professional stock picks and research. Does their own due diligence. Observes patience. Takes lessons from past trades and stock activity. Takes lessons from other traders. Decides between 10 stocks at a time. </p>
<p>Uses tips at work, rumors, and so-called &#8216;inside scoops&#8217; to pick stocks. Doesn&#8217;t investigate financials and corporate position. Falls victim to negative emotions like greed, anger, and desperation. Makes the same mistakes more than once. Looks at one stock alone on its own situation. </p>
<p>So Let&#8217;s Learn </p>
<p>The fact that you have taken the time to review this feature demonstrates that you have the characteristics of a successful trader, specifically the willingness to learn from experts and the experiences of other traders.<br />
So let&#8217;s learn. As mentioned above, you should always examine groups of stocks together when looking for a new issue to invest in. For example, make a chart and write down the revenues of each. In the next column list the earnings. Follow this by each of the subsequent criteria you think are important. With all of the data on one table and available at a glance, you can easily get a clear picture of which are the one or two strongest companies from your pool of potential investments. </p>
<p>However, understand that stock prices do not necessarily act in concert with the underlying fundamentals of a company. For example, there is nothing saying that the stock of the worst company on your list won&#8217;t out perform the top ranked one. </p>
<p>For that reason you should also include factors such as trading volatility, your opinion of a potential break-through due to some new product, potential positive press releases, etc&#8230; This method is not intended to reveal the best stock, but instead to give you additional clarity about which are the best few and worst few according to your own weighting of the various factors you have chosen. </p>
<p>Available Advantages </p>
<p>Get a discount broker. Monitor your portfolio online, do your research online (and offline), and place your trades online. Embrace the technology, because it provides superior advantages all across the board. You can screen stocks, put those into comparative charts, instantly access the corporate press releases, check the latest industry news, and then place your trade&#8230; all for about $20.<br />
Then you can monitor your trade order fulfillment, verify that the money and shares traded hands, track the progress of the stocks, get instant alerts for press releases&#8230; It is truly endless and complete, and each step that you take full advantage of leaves other traders one step behind you. </p>
<p>Keep small amounts of money in each stock, and only &#8216;risk&#8217; money for penny stocks. While these low-priced, volatile investments can produce some truly incredible gains, they usually bounce among all sorts of price ranges.<br />
On a related note, if you get &#8216;freaked out&#8217; or worried about a stock you hold, you should consider selling your position. Try to invest in solid penny stock companies that have a low share price because they are small or undiscovered, not because they are having business troubles. </p>
<p>Be sure to read our related articles Falling in Hate, Fools Rush In, and Trading Myths, and our tools section on Choosing a Broker. </p>
<p>Beyond&#8230; And After That </p>
<p>Some of the most successful traders have a few things in common. Firstly, they have made some major trading mistakes in their day. However, they learned more from these mistakes than they ever did from any of their great trades. Don&#8217;t squander your failures by trying to put them behind you. </p>
<p>Secondly, keep a journal with dates, specific trade amounts and prices, and even the stocks you were thinking of investing in but didn&#8217;t. You can use this for a hundred different purposes as you become a more advanced trader, such as seeing opportunities you missed, or learning that your strategies are valid, or just to monitor your improvement as you become more experienced from month to month.</p>

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