Bob Knights Liver said:
If you are new to trading I would HIGHLY suggest you not trade penny stocks. The most manipulated legal gambling you can do from a brokerage account. If you feel like gambling with you let money fine, but don't put anything in that you don't mind losing. Because 9 times out of 10 you will. The hope appears to be that the 1 time pays out enough to cover the other losses.
100%.
Only invest what you can lose in pennies.
Also, my personal rule is I rarely invest in pennies that do not have revenue. If the company has some revenue (as opposed to being completely speculative or waiting on FDA approval in the case of bios or whatever) then you have a better chance of those pennies paying off. Also, as I've noted a couple of times on the main stocks thread my personal criteria when looking at pennies is this:
-Revenues
-Revenues that are more than MC (if its by a lot, and if the chart shows better past days its attractive)
-Low float
-Decent balance sheet
-I prefer American or Canadian companies but I do have a couple of risky overseas Chinese stocks too but have very little in those.
Pennies in general are risky, and by no means am I saying that if the above criteria is met you aren't exposing yourself to risk, I'm just saying by playing the above criteria you have less risk compared to totally speculative companies that are getting pumped or manipulated for whatever reason and by whatever element.