Buying Penny Stocks The Lazy Investor's Way

Buying penny stocks, while it can be a lucrative form of investing, carries with it a considerable amount of risk. The risks of penny stock investing can be dramatically reduced by doing your homework on the stocks you are considering buying, but that homework is tedious and time-consuming.

A new computerized system has finally been devised that uses cold, hard, mathematical analysis to greatly reduce the risks and increase the profitability of buying penny stocks, while eliminating most of the work involved. As you might have guessed, this technology comes at a rather steep price, but some creative minds have come up with a way to make it accessible to the small investor while making the process of buying penny stocks simple and easy for even the newest of penny stock traders.

Penny stock investing has big advantages when it comes to large, rapid returns on investment, and the fact that penny stocks are priced low enough for even very small investors to buy stocks and have the opportunity for a diversified portfolio. Because penny stocks have such low values, just a few cents change in the price of the stock can equate to a huge change percentage-wise, and potentially a huge profit to the investor, depending on the amount of the total investment, particularly in comparison to the profits possible with larger value stocks.

For example, if you had $1000.00 to invest, and put it into some stock on the S&P 500 list at a purchase price of $100.00 per share, and it went up by $1.00 per share, your $1000 investment would yield $10.00. But, if you purchased $1000.00 worth of a penny stock at a purchase price of $1.00 and it went up by $1.00 per share to $2.00, your $1000 just became $2000 - a yield of $1000!

Unfortunately, just as penny stock investing can provide very high profits very quickly, buying penny stocks can result in big losses quickly too. Besides the normal risks that occur just from normal market forces, penny stock investing is especially risky due to the relatively high rate of fraudulent practices by sellers of the stock. Corporations that issue penny stock are not required to submit financial statements to the SEC, so it can be hard to find good information that you can rely on when trying to evaluate the stock.

In some instances, hard-sell marketing tactics, such as email spam campaigns, paid promoters making cold calls, exaggerated press releases, and "boiler room" operations may be used to lure unwary investors into buying a stock to drive up the price and then the insiders suddenly sell off their stock at the inflated value, leaving the investors holding the bag as the price drops like a rock. As with any investment, the higher the potential return, the higher the risk, but in penny stocks, the relatively high potential for fraud drives the risk even higher than what is seen in other investments that are simply at the whim of market forces.

Up until recently, it would take a huge amount of time and work to thoroughly evaluate penny stocks in order to keep away from the scams and to get a decent return on investment. Several hours of research might be needed to evaluate just a single stock. While this work would usually pay off in the long run, it was often simply too time-consuming for part time investors.

Then along came "Marl", which is a penny stock buying computer bot designed by a couple of guys that had the unusual combination of computer programming expertise and in-depth understanding of stock investing. Marl has several advantages over human investors, but the biggest advantage Marl has is that there are no emotions involved in his stock picks. Marl makes his picks based on cold, hard, statistical calculations. Plus, Marl can do a detailed analysis of hundreds of stocks in less time than it would take even an expert stock analyst to do a cursory evaluation of just one stock. This doesn't completely eliminate the risks of buying penny stocks, but it does cut down on the risk considerably.

Marl has been so effective that he has allowed for huge gains by advanced investors. Because of this, Marl is considered a bargain at the $28,000 licensing fee, but bargain or not, this is well beyond the means of small investors. There is an option to use Marl that is available to investors with even the smallest of budgets though. The guys that developed Marl put out an e-newsletter that gives Marl's top penny stock pick for each week. For new investors, this might be even better than buying the full Marl program, as it narrows down the investment options to just one stock every week, instead of figuring out what to buy out of hundreds of options. With this, even the most novice of penny stock traders can do well with penny stocks.

Sadly, Marl's inventors are indicating that they will soon cease to offer the newsletter to new subscribers. Hopefully they will reconsider and continue to offer this valuable service that puts small investors on a more even playing field with large investors. For the time being anyway, Marl provides small investors with a great opportunity to profit from buying penny stocks.