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Penny Stock Trading – Don’t Fall in Love
Written by troy on Tuesday, December 09, 2008 | No Comments
Categories: Penny Stock Trading Rules Tags: penny stock investment, penny stock picks, Penny Stock Trading, penny stocks
Don’t fall in love with your penny stocks. Remember this blog is all about penny stock trading not penny stock love. This is sort of a crass way to put it but you need to approach penny stock trading as if every stock is a one night stand. You are interested in the pleasure that it can provide for you. You are not interested in a long term relationships.
I have run into many people over the years that have an emotional attachment to the stock picks. They feel that it is some slight on their character if their stock pick goes awry. Do not fall in love with your penny stock picks or fall in love with your “ability” to pick penny stocks. It will go badly for you if you do. You have been warned. As I mentioned in a previous post these are not penny stock investments.
How many times have you or someone you know fallen in love with a stock at $4. When it fell to $3 you just had to add more because it is such a great company. It is not being valued correctly, the shorts are in control, etc. At $2 it is a steal. So you load up. You love this stock pick. Everyone else must have blinders on. When it hits $1 you can no longer stand the pain and you take a major loss. All because you fell in love with a dog.
Look, penny stocks are by their very nature dogs. Don’t try to pretty them up. Treat them for what they are. Get pleasure from them when they treat you right. If they turn against you then dump them and get out. It is not worth the risk. Don’t fall in love with your Penny Stock Picks.
Penny Stock Volume
Written by troy on Tuesday, November 18, 2008 | No Comments
Categories: Uncategorized Tags: Penny Stock Trading, penny stock volume, penny stocks
I would recommend that you spend your time trading penny stocks with decent volume. Personally, I choose penny stock that trade around 1,000,000 shares a day or more. I usually use average volume over the last quarter but at the very least I want to see that it has reached that level in the last 30 days. You can go to just about any finance website (Google, Yahoo, etc.) to get these numbers. I never trade anything with less than a 500,000 share average daily volume for the last 30 days. I would recommend you set a level that you are comfortable with and stick to it.
Why do I suggest this? You might think that on the surface 50,000 shares sounds like a lot of volume, however, it isn’t. As I slowly lay out my strategy before you, you will find that I never trade less than 1000 shares at a time. Depending on the size of your account you may hold 10,000 shares of a particular stock. If you wanted to liquidate your position in one day you would be trading 1/5 of the entire days trading volume. In a thinly traded stock that could put a lot of selling pressure on the price and make it difficult to get out at the price you wanted. Remember that the lighter the volume, the easier it is to manipulate the price of the stock. And I don’t want to be in a stock that can be potetially manipulated. See you soon.
