Two Strategies For Buying Penny Stocks November 27, 2009
Well before you begin penny stock trading, I exhort you to first establish a clear understanding of the primary maneuvers employed by seasoned penny stock traders and practice these schemes through trading in paper (trading practice with no money).
Once you understand and appreciate the risks taken in day trading penny stocks, you will need to master the primary tactics exercised by penny stock traders. The first strategy I will talk about is the long play and the second is named the short play. You should exercise these strategies long before you join a real bank account with a brokerage account.
A long play is just like investing in a growth stock, except you buy penny stock well before a strong history has been established for the stock’s company. When you invest in a long play, you’re investing in a penny stock company for the long term, even years. You can really make a ton of money if you hit upon the penny stock of a company with a great product and ton of potential.
Both of these penny stock techniques will be employed in buying penny stocks in general but only short plays will be used in day trade penny stocks.
Penny stock short plays are more for the bold-hearted day trading penny stock investors. In penny stocks short plays involve short term investments based on the pattern of peaks and valleys exhibited by the stock. To understand channeling, just imagine two straight flat lines placed along the jagged line of a line chart; the lower line represents the average low values of the stock and the higher line represents the average high values with the space between representing its channel. After you’re sure you have identified a clean pattern within the stock’s shifting values, an aggressive penny stock investor will continually buy on the low point and sell on the high point.
With penny stocks, this can be particularly risky for two reasons: one, penny stocks are highly susceptible to manipulation by scammers and two, penny stocks lack liquidity. Thus they will be hard to trade away fast, and end up buying on the low but unable to sell it during the short time it is at its peak.
So be very careful what information you believe on the Internet. If you are serious about buying penny stocks, then you need to exercise an extra dose of skepticism and caution when assessing data on a penny stock, especially if you intend to day trade penny stock.
While it is quite possible to gain ample money with penny stocks, don’t underestimate how much risk you’ll endure and please do not engage in trading penny stocks if you cannot exercise your due diligence.