A great way to begin your stock market investing adventure is with penny stocks. By penny stocks, we understand shares in companies which are traded by less than $5 – this is the official definition of penny stocks, or micro cap equity, given by US Security and Exchange Commission. However, when brokers and market analysts speak about penny stocks, they rather define the shares from a company that are cheaper than $1.
There is a whole philosophy related to penny stocks and how to make money while trading penny stocks. The basic idea is to find really cheap stocks and underrated companies, buy them and wait until they start going up. In theory, this is quite simple, but, as always, practice is what’s killing us.
There is something you have to know: not all cheap stocks will go up – sometimes, they stay down or they become even cheaper. So, trading penny stocks is not the magical recipe that it will help you to make a lot of money. If you are trading penny stocks, it doesn’t necessarily mean that you can’t lose money. Let’s imagine you find some company with really cheap shares and you think it’s a company which will perform very well in the next following months or years. So, you take the opportunity and invest a few thousand dollars in that penny stocks. Well, if you were wrong, and the company doesn’t have the potential your credited it with, then you lost those money. Generally, people are really tempted by penny stocks, because they are so cheap, without stopping a moment to think that, if you buy a large quantity of penny stocks, they invest an important amount of money anyhow.
Some traders (especially conservative ones) avoid penny stocks, for a whole bunch of reasons. The companies are generally less secure and, since the prices are volatile, there is a big chance for losing. Also, those companies don’t usually pay dividends. However, speculative investors are attracted by the same characteristics that make other avoid them. The price volatility, if it goes in the right direction, will help you make a lot of money.
With penny stocks, it’s hard to estimate what will happen next. This is why a lot of people take decisions based on the tips they get. There are even online services that will send you information and tips about penny stocks. Well, even if the tip is correct, the fact that a lot of people will get it and they do the exact same thing you are doing it will affect a lot the out come of your action. For example, if you are advised to buy shares to a company, because those shares will go up in the next weeks, well, the same advice will go to thousands of other traders. And, of course, the price will go up, not in a few weeks, but the same day or the next day. If you act really quickly and you buy those shares rapidly, you’ll benefit from the “tip effect” – you buy cheap, shares go up. On the contrary, if you don’t move fast enough, you’ll get shares that are already up and you won’t mark any profit.
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