Showing posts with label losers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label losers. Show all posts

Thursday, January 22, 2009

Penny Stocks Buying Selling: Day Trading Penny Stocks Is Risky And Profitable

The world of penny stock day trading is often compared to gambling.

Why?

Because when you win, you win big. If you lose, you can lose a whole bunch of money. The speculative nature of penny stocks or microcap trading is well known. Companies that offer cheap stock are not the same companies you?ll find in the blue chip market. On the contrary, they are often very risky investments.

The reason why their stock is so cheap is because they are just starting out in business or they have mismanaged their business and need a quick bail out. Selling inexpensive stock is a way to raise some fast cash for their enterprise.

Determining which small cap stocks are a good buy is very difficult and not for amateur investors. The truth is, most microcap stocks are pure junk. It?s really common for a novice investor to lose money after being lured into buying a cheap stock that is supposed to make them rich.

Very often, these sure deals are nothing but scams that are designed to make the insider stock picking services big money. They count on your lack of experience and knowledge to make them rich.

Only about 5% of the small cap market is truly worth investing in ? the rest should be tossed aside like yesterday?s garbage.

The good news is that with the right information and guidance, you can make really great profits in this market. Most smart investors will sign up for a newsletter that specializes in penny stock picks. The reputable newsletters will only analyze the top 5% of companies that they feel are worth putting money on. They will usually recommend three to five good picks. You then decide whether you want to go with their picks or not.

Another reason why it?s a good idea to go with a newsletter is that you can greatly minimize your risk. Wise investing is all about picking more winners than losers and not putting all your eggs into one basket.

Since you probably have a full-time job, you don?t have time to spend pouring over endless data about thousands of companies out there offering cheap stock. You definitely need experts to do this for you, and you also need the tools to make your investment decisions easier.

Many people get into day trading penny stocks for the thrill of making big money in a short amount of time. While this is totally possible, you must also temper your enthusiasm a bit in order to make good decisions based on factual information.

Here?s an example of a typical microcap stock trade:

Let?s say you find a start up company that?s in the software business. They create medical software for hospitals. This sounds like a pretty good business to you so you take a look at their stock offering.

You see that they are selling shares at 50 cents a piece. So, you decide to buy 500 shares for $250. You sit on the stock for a while then you see that it starts to go up. It peaks at $3 per share and you decide to sell. You?ve just made a nice $1,250 profit from that one stock. That?s a 600% rate of return!

This kind of profit is what excites most people about small cap stocks, however, if the opposite should happen and that stock goes down by even inches, you?ll lose all of your initial investment money. This is why you should never invest money that you need to pay your bills and buy food.

If you lose it, no sweat - it?s fun money anyways. It?s similar to if you were going to Las Vegas for a vacation and you budgeted a certain amount of money to spend on gambling at the casinos. Only invest extra money that you can spare.

I know this isn?t going to happen to you because you?re going to learn how to invest the smart way, and in this topsy turvy market, that?s the only way you?ll end up being a winner. Unfortunately, many investors gamble with money they shouldn?t be risking and lose it all with one or two bad trades. It?s fun and profitable when you win, but not so much when you lose.

Day trading penny stocks can be looked at in the same way.



Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Debt With Dignity

Buildings make allowances for physical limitations and a recent news story said that more people have developed a tolerance for the religion of others. we no longer have separate entrances based on the color of your skin. For example, in the U.S. In all sorts of corners of life we now assume that it is wrong to not treat others well.

I???d have to say that currently, society treats debtors as losers and if debtors were on a ledge getting ready to leap, a crowd below would be yelling ???Jump!??? But we could make some advances in learning to treat people in debt, with dignity.

The majority of people without financial problems love a little debtor voyeurism and to witness the financial misery of others. It???s like watching the train wreck through cracks in your fingers as you hold your hand over your eyes. You don???t want to watch but you do.

Imagine if suicide was like debt and when you were contemplating killing yourself your creditors kept calling you and say things like ???you are a loser??? or ???just do it and good riddance???? That???s some pretty cruel mojo isn???t it? Maybe we should call the overweight kid that is depressed and yell, ???fatty, fatty??? into the phone. But I doubt that would be kind or beneficial at all.

So why is it when people are in financial trouble that we can???t wrap our arms around them and treat them with care, compassion and respect. We should. We all should.

If you???ve never been deep in debt and afraid, unable to sleep, on the verge of an anxiety attack, and depressed, it might be hard for you to imagine what life is like during those dark days of debt. While some might put on a mask, most people are ashamed, unhappy and afraid inside.

Being in debt is the modern day leprosy. When you can???t spend money like you used to people don???t seem to be around as much, your life changes in a way that you perceive to be for the worse and when you???ve got to move because you can???t afford the rent it???s like being hustled off to the leper colony. You???re now isolated for all the wrong reasons.

I can???t think of any time that I???ve ever seen someone post a sign in their front yard that says, ???Hi Y???all we???re so broke we can???t afford to live here anymore and we are getting kicked out.??? Actually, what I???ve seen more of are foreclosed homes with everything left behind, including wedding pictures and the belongs of evicted people left by the side of the road for passerby???s to pick through. Ashamed people flee.

Debtors deserve dignity. I???m not saying that we need to give anyone a free ride in life. I???m just saying that people in debt are wounded and deserve to be treated as you would anyone in a difficult time or in a fragile moment.

Being in debt is a mathematical position with emotional manifestations. Being unable to pay your bills is not a casual reality for most debtors. People in debt want to pay their bills, they do, but they can???t see a way or they are not emotionally ready to make those hard lifestyle changes to meet their new obligations.

Being unready or unprepared to make changes to get the numbers to line up does not make you a bad person. It just makes you someone that for some reason is unwilling to make some difficult choices right then.

Being in debt is about managing depression, despair and loneliness. I???m not saying that all debtors feel that way, but most do. Being in debt is about a loss of self-esteem and self-confidence. It???s about being unable to make a plan, stick to it and make it happen.

The emotional pain of being in debt robs ourselves of our own dignity and the rest of society does almost nothing to help cradle the debtor with love and compassion to soften the blow and easy the journey.

Debtor???s are losers. Debtor???s are rejects. Debtor???s are liars. Debtor???s a failures. And all of those statements are uttered every day by people and none of them are true. Instead they are like the school yard shouts of the insensitive bully that leaves scars for life on fragile minds.

It can happen but with a little help and support. But that can be like asking someone with a bad back to run a marathon. Debtors do have a duty to find a solution to make the pain and misery they are living through, change.

Being in debt is a thing but being a debtor is personal and debtors deserve to be treated with dignity and compassion while they are helped towards a solution.


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