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As you embark on the precarious course of day trading penny stocks, you must understand the basics utilized by all winning penny stock investors and practice those proficiencies in paper trading (practice trading without money).

After you have a strong grasp on the risks of penny stock trading, you will need to master the essential tactics exercised by penny stock investors. First we will talk about the long play and then we will talk about the short play. I urge readers to exercise these tactics with paper trading before you trade with real money.

A long play is just like investing in a growth stock, except you buy penny stock well before a strong history has been established for the stock’s company. A long play basically means buying a penny stock and then holding it for a long term investment. This can be very profitable if that stock goes from being well below $5 per share to being worth a couple hundred bucks per share in a few years.

Both of these penny stock strategies will be applied in trading penny stocks in general but only short plays will be employed in day trading penny stocks.

Short plays in penny stock trading are a more adventurous enterprise and are more explicitly for the day trading penny stock dealers. Short plays involved extensive pattern analysis to determine how a stock channels. To understand channeling, just imagine two straight flat lines placed along the jagged line of a line chart; the lower line represents the average low values of the stock and the higher line represents the average high values with the space between representing its channel. Then once you become confident you have determined its pattern, a bold penny stock trader buys at the low side of the channel and sells at the high side.

With penny stocks, this is often very risky for 2 specific reasons: one, penny stocks are highly susceptible to manipulation by scammers and because you’ll find low liquidity in penny stocks. Thus they will be hard to trade away fast, and end up buying on the low but unable to sell it during the short time it is at its peak.

So be very careful what information you believe on the Internet. If you are serious about buying penny stocks, after which you must practice plenty of care and skepticism while evaluating information on any single penny stock, particularly if you plan on day trading penny stock.

While it is quite possible to gain good money through penny stocks, do not underestimate the amount of hazard included and do not buy penny stocks without doing your due diligence.