People will all tell you that penny stock investing is not a good idea. They will tell you that penny stocks are not reliable long term investments and that penny stocks will all fail in the end and that penny stocks are just schemes from corrupt individuals and much of the time these are things which can be true. However I'd counter that penny stock investing may be the last way for average individuals to play in the stock market. Penny stocks are for the most part quite affordable, they make sense for the investor who does their investment homework, and particularly in such a quagmire of an economy, penny stock investing is all that many people can afford. Still, you need to find your own way in the investing world and you need to do what makes sense for you. If penny stock investing does interest you, consider these four tenets to finding your way in penny stock investing.
Consider the Source: One of the easiest ways to get suckered into a bum bet in penny stock investing is to listen to unreliable sources of information. That is, the chat rooms, discussion boards, even websites like the Yahoo! Contributor Network. We are all just platforms for you to do your own discovery. Truth be told no one on any online chat rooms knows any more about what is going to happen in any particular stock than anyone else. If there were real information being spread in the blogosphere that is a crime called insider trading. Most companies; reputable or not; don't want to have insider trading traced back to them. Not only does it involve jail time but it also makes their company less legitimate in the eyes of investors. Consider the source before you run after a flagging penny stock investment.
Consider Your Portfolio: What else is in your portfolio? Do you have a balanced investment sheet or is this something you do in small amounts? For every dollar you have invested in penny stocks, consider setting aside a dollar for, say, bonds. Or CD's. Or savings. Or blue chip stocks. You have to have a balanced investment portfolio; there is no time like the present to divvy up your assets across a number of different investments.
Consider the Industry: What does the company you're investing in produce? What is their market potential? Where do you see this business going in 1 year? 10 years? If your penny stock is trying to make waves in an already established industry, this could be a tough racket to enter. Consider the place in the market for this company's product or service. Does this company deal in bio-technology and are they making partnerships with industry leaders? Or is this a very specific niche industry with not a lot of potential upside? If your company doesn't have an innovative way of doing old business, then they're just old business.
Consider Your Life: Okay this is a big one, you need to remember that these are investments which can (and very well may) go all the way down to nothing. That said, don't go after penny stocks with rent money or your child's lunch money in the hopes of flipping it for a double. You may track a penny stock down and up and down and up every day at these 100% turnaround points, but you can't know that this is going to continue. Consider the fact that you need to still live your life with or without these massive gains.
Penny stock investing is not as easy as many think. It used to be that you could throw some money at the market and whatever stuck would go up 10-fold. This is not the current economy we live in. That said there still is money to be made in penny stock investing for even the small time investor. Go for it!
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