Penny Stocks
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Sam Lessin: Buying a Penny Stock Can Beat IPO Costs
“It's just a cheaper way to spec. I mean, like this is the thing is like, it's still expensive to get public. And there's a bunch of people who want to be public for cheap access to capital. I've actually looked into this and like, honestly, like buying a penny…”
Rad turned $5K into $1M day trading at 16, losing it all
“I was day trading when I was 16. Took, like, my bar mitzvah money, and I took, like, 5000 dollars and grew it into a million. Yeah, day trading. And then I lost it all.”
Antonopoulos: Crypto behaves like penny stocks; most should strictly limit exposure
“It behaves very much like a penny stock at the moment, and most people are not equipped to handle volatile investments like that should probably limit it to a very small part of their portfolio.”
Sykes: Early 2000s Penny Stock Trading Strategies Still Work Today
“Yeah, they still work. You know, I trade penny stocks. They're very volatile. They're very scary. You know, not as much as in 1999 and 2000 when I got started in the right time at the right place, you know, during the bubble, but there's still a lot of volatil…”
Sykes: Penny stock scams are built to pump for insiders to cash out
“Shorting, even if you're betting against a total scam, is very scary, because scams, you know, are meant to go higher, so that the insiders can profit either by selling insider shares, or by doing a financing at inflated prices, and then paying themselves ridi…”