subject: Penny Stocks - Simple Way To Big Profit [print this page] There are two types of people in stock market, one is known as investor and other is traders. Both look for profitable investment opportunities in the market. And the strategies for investors and traders are different.
Investors are those whose investment time frame is longer and trades are those who invest or trades for short term. One should recognize themselves whether they are investors or traders, as it helps to select proper investing or trading plan.
Analysis or research is very important when you invest or trade. Fundamental analysis is helpful for those who are investors and look for long term gains and other hand those who look for short term gains should opt technical analysis.
If you have a sound knowledge of technical analysis and have a sound trading strategy you can make huge profit in less money with penny stocks. Though these stocks i.e. penny stocks or micro stocks are very risky, but with proper strategy huge profit can possible.
Making money with penny stock is not difficult, all you need to find a penny stock company that has good prospects in near future. Also you should have a trading strategy that has good success rate. Technical analysis is good for short terms trading so make your trading strategy based on it.
Though technical analysis is complicated but very helpful to find profitable opportunities for short term. It needs time to learn, before investing in any stock devote little time to learn it and make a simple but effective trading system. Initially do paper trading only and find whether it works on not.
No trading system in world will give you 100% correct results all the time. But you can use any good trading system that has 70% to 80% success rate. Remember successful trading is not only finding entry and exit but also proper use of stop loss and money management.
If you can make a simple trading system, having good success rate say 70% success rate and use it with other trading techniques such as money management and stop loss you can make big profit in any market or stock. Even in penny stocks.
The percentage gain in penny stock is mind boggling. To explain it here is an example. Say you invest in stock ABC that is trading at $2 and you purchase 100 shares, your investment becomes $200. Now if the stock rises to $3 then your investment becomes worth $300 an profit $100 (i.e. $300 -$200). In other hand say you found good penny stock companies having good future prospects, trading at say $0.20 (twenty cents). Now if the penny stock rises by $1 same as previous one, your gain will be $0.80 (Eighty Cents). If you had invested the same amount of shares i.e 100 shares then your investment would be for that penny stock $0.20 X 100 = $20 . So your gain is $80 on Investment of $20 and percentage gain is 300% ! That is why people love to invest in penny stocks.
