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Here's what my preliminary research seems to
indicate. Of all stocks which gained 50% or more in one day of
trading...

Less Than 2%

Were Stocks Listed On

The AMEX Exchange

Guess how I eliminated my first sizable group
of horses? (Oops, I mean stocks.) Simple. I decided to ignore
the AMEX. Mushing on, I discovered...

Only 9% Of The

Top Gainers Came From

The NYSE

I decided to ignore the NYSE also...
because... the plain fact of the matter is...

89% Of All Those

Big Gainers Came From

The NASDAQ

Now, let's talk about price. Of all stocks
that gained 50% or more in price in one day, NONE of those
stocks were "penny…

Here's the rest of the breakdown:

Stocks priced at $1.00 to $1.99 represented
9.8% of the big gainers.

Stocks priced at $2.00 to $2.99 represented
9.4% of the big gainers.

Stocks priced from $3.00 to $3.99 made up 3.7%
of the big gainers.

Stocks priced from $4.00 to $4.99 made up 2.1%
of the big gainers.

Stocks priced from $5.00 to $5.99 made up 3.2%
(a little statistical anomaly there) of the big gainers.
Finally...

All Stocks Priced

$6.00 Or More Represented

Only 4% Of The

Big Gainers

So, Buckwheat, here's what I've decided so
far: I'm only going to bet on stocks listed on the NASDAQ
priced from $1.00 to $2.99... because... those stocks
represent 19.2% of all the big gainers... and... these two
selection criteria have enabled me to…

But, my friend, we ain't done yet. Not by a
long shot. Just because a stock is priced between $1.00 and
$2.99 and listed on the NASDAQ doesn't mean it makes the cut.
Nope, all we've identified here is the "preliminary
pool" of stocks we are even willing to look at. There are
numerous other…

The first of the next hurdles is volume. If a
stock has a very thin daily volume, just the fact you invest
in that stock will make it skyrocket in price.

Conversely, if the daily volume is too
high, way too much of a mountain of money has to be moved to
effectuate a 50% or more jump in price…

Hey, that doesn't sound like such a small
company, does it?

WRONG! At least, according to the stock
market. As far as Wall Street is concerned, a company worth
$50,000,000 or less is..

A "Micro" Cap

Moving up from 50 million to 200 million, we
have a group of companies, each of which is considered...

A "Small" Cap

Ain't that something? A company worth as much
as 200 million
fungolas is still only "small potatoes" as far as
Wall Street is concerned.

Moving right on up the ladder, we have those
companies worth somewhere between 200 million and 1.5 BILLION!
Think that puts it at the top of the pile? Not a chance. If a
company is only worth a measly 1.5 billion
($1,500,000,000.00!) it is still only considered...

A "Mid" Cap

You wanna run with the big dogs? Want to be
considered a serious
company? Well, as long as your company is worth more than 1.5
billion, you are then considered...

A "Large" Cap

Get this: Some of these companies are so damn
big, the daily trading
volume of their shares is 2-1/2 billion
dollars…

Also remember: Not all of a company's stock is
available for purchase on the stock market. Let's say a
company is made up of a total of 10,000,000 shares... but...
the people who run the company believe in it very strongly...
and... they want to make sure they maintain control. There
might be only 3,000…

Small companies, of course, have the greatest
potential for share price appreciation. Recently, Pfitzer, a massive
company, made front-page news all over the world because it
has just secured FDA approval to market a potency pill taken
orally just like an aspirin and, in just 30 minutes, it makes
it possible for pathetic guys like me to once again…

By the way, since I
haven't been able to depend on getting an erection for so many
decades now, you know what I started doing about 10 years ago?
I started carrying a small polaroid camera with me at all
times... and... if I get even a momentary erection, I take an
instant photo of it and write the…

Plus, those photos save
me a lot of embarrassment. Let's say I'm on a date (blue moons
are more frequent) and things start getting hot and heavy.
But, my little soldier won't stand up and salute and the woman
I'm with starts to make fun of me and saying cruel things
like, "Hah! You're supposed…

It used to be dreadfully
embarrassing for me. But, not anymore. Nope, now all I have to
do is whip out my dated polaroid and show it to my date, smile
smugly and say, "Oh yeah? Well, guess what? I used
to be able to get it up and here's PROOF!"

Tell you what guys. That one sure takes the
starch out of those smug, cold-hearted
"only-after-one-thing" mean-spirited floozies! (By
the way, my doctor says there is still hope for me if any of
my readers cared enough about me to send a beautiful, hot,
sexy, caring woman down here to help me with this problem…

I'll tell ya, it's a cold world out there.

But anyway, when the news of Viagra (the
potency pill) hit the media, the stock of Pfitzer jumped up
only about 10%. Why? Simply because Pfitzer's stock was
already selling in the $90 to $100 range per share and the
company is so strongly capitalized, even the best…

But, what if a much smaller company with stock
selling at $2.50 per share had announced it had come up with
Viagra and had obtained FDA approval to market that product?
We can't know precisely but, it's almost certain (assuming
we're talking about a solid little company) the price
of the stock would have skyrocketed from…

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