Kool Aid Man
1月前
Investing in sub penny OTC stocks is more akin to walking into an unregulated mafia controlled casino and expecting to leave with their money.
Someone posted a hypothetical saying if they picked 10 OTC stocks and put $1k into each ($10k total)...they'd be lucky if one hit. And even if they were lucky that one would have to nearly 1,000% just to break even.
However, $10k invested in an aggressive fund with a compounded annual average of 20% would return--
1 year------$12,000
5 years----$24,883
10 years--$61,917
15 years--$154,070
20 years--$383,376
Even at 10% the return comes to--
1 year------$11,000
5 years----$16,105
10 years--$25,937
15 years--$41,772
20 years--$67,275
Kool Aid Man
1月前
I maxed out my SEP IRA in Fidelity's OTC portfolio after the Dot Com bust and post-9/11 recession. As the max chart (below)shows, apart from the financial crash of 2008 it has performed quite well even thru the worst of Covid --presumably because billions of stimulus money poured into OTC. There was a big drop between July 2021 and August 2022 but it has since recouped all of that. The same pattern experienced by Invesco's QQQ ETF
https://www.barchart.com/etfs-funds/quotes/FOCPX/overview
https://www.barchart.com/etfs-funds/quotes/QQQ/overview
I have FOCPX bar belled with more conservative, less volatile funds.
The FOCPX is an ''actively managed fund" that invests in OTC stocks selected by experienced professional who add and delete companies based on performance etc.
However, Invesco QQQ is an exchange-traded fund based on the Nasdaq-100 Index thus making it a "passively managed" fund. The Fund will, under most circumstances, consist of all of stocks in the Index. The Index includes 100 of the largest domestic and international non financial companies listed on the Nasdaq Stock Market based on market capitalization. The Fund and the Index are rebalanced quarterly and reconstituted annually. So you get both the good and bad as long as they fall into the top 100.
I'd be curious to know what your research turns up
bri123
3月前
Restricted shares are often used as a form of payment for board members, and a way of off-setting the cost of purchasing a company. On page 6 of the last filing (annual filing) we see the new board members and various insiders were granted common shares, which are restricted because they are company insiders (as noted by the SEC rule / registration type "144" on the right side of the page with each entry).
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/rule144.asp
Because these are common shares, any reverse split would reverse them as well, but the value would multiply with the reverse ratio, so the holder would still have the same dollar amount after a reverse split.
bri123
3月前
ETFs and Mutual funds are similar, but ETFs are traded pretty much the same way a stock is, i.e. - shares. So if you like the concept of stock trading, ETFs are a natural alternative.
With a mutual fund, you buy and sell based on dollars, not market price or shares. And you can specify any dollar amount you want—down to the penny or as a nice round figure, like $3,000. With an ETF, you buy and sell based on market price—and you can only trade full shares.
marylandstockguy
3月前
Are these a similar concept to a mutual or SPY fund? I agree with you guys. I'm working with a financial advisor now to just ensure the main investments outside 401K are done appropriately. It is VERY hard to win picking individual stocks, particularly in the OTC, but really anywhere. I guess the big ones like Apple, Nvidia, and so forth will do well over time, but we're in those in our 401K anyways. It feels repetitive, but that seems to be the only way to ensure growth with individual picks.
marylandstockguy
3月前
I really hope you're right, all of us holders here do, but I still am a bit skeptical it could run that high. Restricted shares or not, a penny would be a 440 mil market cap. That would be a dramatic rise to say the least, and it would have to be predicated on something very big, particularly in this OTC environment.
I'm also wondering why the 500 mil plus volume day, followed by relative quiet. We saw this happen before recently, and it makes me wonder if someone behind the scenes there was trying to force a run by buying a bunch on the news of the annual report. Maybe they were hoping for a run to 4-5 and then doing a big unloading of shares for quick profit. Right now, silence just isn't going to work in OTC world, especially with this type of share structure. I'm in one that has 2.5 billion AS, and it's also at 1/2, because they haven't had news since April.