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Chart and  DD                                                         

                   A place to find charts and Research on penny stocks trading companies. We want the best info so traders can have great DD before they buy stocks.

 

                      

 

                                                                  

 

               

      HERE is a great link for all research needs !!!!     www.wall-street.com/small.html

 

What size is "small"? There are many definitions. Some people define a small public company as one with a market cap under $1 billion. Others define small cap as under $2 billion. And there are yet other definitions. Over the last two decades the word "small" has come to mean larger and larger companies! To confuse matters, NASDAQ's small cap market system continues to list truly small public companies, many of which would be classified as nano-cap.

Market Cap
  Investopedia Investor Words
Mega-Cap over $200 billion over $250 billion
Large-Cap $10 billion - $200 billion. $5 billion - $250 billion
Mid-Cap $2 billion - $10 billion $1 billion - $5 billion
Small-Cap $300 million - $2 billion $250 million - $1 billion
Micro-Cap $50 million - $300 million under 250 million
Nano-Cap under $50 million --
 
MARKET MAKER SIGNALS

 Penny traders believe that Market Makers (MM) will "signal" moves in advance buy using small amounts of buys or sells as "signals". The "signals" are such a small amount of shares (worth no more than 5 or 10 dollars) that no trader would have paid a commission that costs more than the amount of shares bought. The "signals" are from one MM to another.





  • 100   I need shares.
  • 200   I need shares badly,but do not take the stock down.
  • 300   Take the price down so I can load shares
  • 400   Keep trading it sideways.
  • 500   Gap the stock. This gap can be either up or down, depending on the direction of the 500 signal.

 

 

 

 


 

Our practical definition is as follows: Once a company trades for $10 per share or more and trades on NASDAQ's 2 higher tiers, AME, NYSE or OTCQX we do not call it a small company.

Within our limited definition of "small companies" there still remain very large differences relevant to investing.

For example, if a company is on the OTCBB it is required to be a reporting company -- that is, is submitting to the SEC its audited quarterly and yearly data plus all information important for investors . Therefore you can access its stock performance and financial data at servers such as Yahoo, Hoovers, Market Guide and EDGAR -- right along side General Motors and Microsoft! SEC-reporting companies are required to comply with strict regulations relating to disclosure and accuracy. This includes the reporting regulations in Sarbanes-Oxley. An experienced investor has a chance to access the data necessary to decide if this company is a good investment. He also has reasonable expectation that the data is accurate. Almost all these companies are also trading on the OTCQB run by Pink OTC Markets, the platform which handles most of the trades in these stocks.

If a company is on the OTCQX it, too, is required to be a reporting company; however it reports to Pink OTC Markets rather than the SEC. Pink OTC Markets runs this premiium quotaion, trading, and disclosure service and makes the information available to the public. OTCQX companies do not need to comply with all the SEC disclosure regulations and can avoid the cost of complying with Sarbanes-Oxley, a huge expense for a small company. However, the OTCQX company must follow generally accepted auditing principles (GAAP) and have regular audits. Moreover, it must have an independent Designated Advisor for Disclosure (DAD), a professional "gatekeeper" for secondary market disclosure. The OTCQX is patterned after the London Stock Exchange's successful AIM system for small companies.

If a company is on the Pink Sheets but not on the OTCQX, and is not SEC reporting, the level of information available about the company determines the Pink Sheets &quo;Tier" for the company. These levels are: Current, Limited or No public disclosure. Although financial figures for companies in the OTCQX and OTCQB/OTCBB must be audited, those for companies on the Current Information tier may or may not be audited. For US companies, usually they are not, though they must be prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP). Foreign companies are another matter. They can join the Current Information tier simply by reporting to their own country's version of the SEC, thereby fulfilling requirements which can be just as stringent as those in the US. In addition, some of these companies are not at all small!

In addition to the above tiers, there is one more Pink Sheets designation you should be aware of, the "Caveat Emptor" symbolized at the OTC Markets Website by a skull and crossbones. A company earns this designation when their stock is being actively promoted in spite of the fact that accurate, current financials are not publicly available on the Web.

 

 

                                                                                                                    

 

 

 

 

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