This Little Pinkie Went To Market

Written by Steven Hastings


Investing and You! By Steven Hastings UCD Investment Club

This Little Pinkie Went To Market!

Inrepparttar world of investments, treading intorepparttar 103260 unknown can be a very hazardous journey. Whilerepparttar 103261 majority of investors opt for companies traded onrepparttar 103262 large stock exchanges such asrepparttar 103263 New York Stock Exchange, NASDAQ and AMEX, there are thousands, if not millions of people who choose to rollrepparttar 103264 dice with companies traded onrepparttar 103265 OTC Bulletin Board, or even more risky,repparttar 103266 Pink Sheets.

The Pink Sheets does not require companies whose securities are quoted upon its systems to meet any listing requirements. Withrepparttar 103267 exception of a few foreign issuers,repparttar 103268 companies quoted inrepparttar 103269 Pink Sheets tend to be closely held, extremely small and/or thinly traded. Most do not meetrepparttar 103270 minimum listing requirements for trading on a national securities exchange. Many of these companies do not file periodic reports or audited financial statements withrepparttar 103271 SEC, making it very difficult for investors to find reliable, unbiased information about those companies. For all of these reasons, companies quoted inrepparttar 103272 Pink Sheets can be amongrepparttar 103273 most risky investments. That's why you should take extra care to thoroughly investigate any company quoted exclusively inrepparttar 103274 Pink Sheets.

Most Pink Sheet stocks are literal money pits. Company CEO’s have routinely cheated investors and have lined their own pockets through avenues such as “toxic” financing arrangements, issuing S-8’s and good old fashion selling while hypingrepparttar 103275 stock through brokers and wire services.

Often, a company once trading on a big exchange finds itself demoted torepparttar 103276 Pink Sheets as it either tries to restructure itself, or is just stuck there as a last rite of passage torepparttar 103277 stock graveyard. Adelphia Communications (ADELQ) fits within this category. Once a darling among investors, due to a major CEO scandal that rockedrepparttar 103278 investment community, it is now bankrupt, and trading onrepparttar 103279 Pink Sheets with very little hope of ever getting back torepparttar 103280 big boards as it goes throughrepparttar 103281 liquidation process.

Often times however, a company will userepparttar 103282 Pink Sheets as a stepping stone torepparttar 103283 bigger exchanges. Many reasons are possible, butrepparttar 103284 biggest one is usuallyrepparttar 103285 cost factor. Without required filings, CEO’s can save time and money when first starting out, and consequently, pump those savings back intorepparttar 103286 business to help grow it. When sales and revenues start to generate, CEO’s can then seek applications torepparttar 103287 larger exchanges.

Ride the wave of ‘Wellness’ to Financial Freedom!

Written by Lynda Lock


Ever wished that you’d timed things a little better so that your income was on par with that of Bill Gates? Perhaps you ponder how life would have been different had yourepparttar ability to seerepparttar 103259 big picture that Henry Ford saw –repparttar 103260 NEED for automobiles, even when there were obstacles such as no roads and no gas stations to overcome in order to achieve this dream.

Had you this same ability to “think big” life could be very different right now.

Unfortunatelyrepparttar 103261 majority of us missedrepparttar 103262 opportunity to earn ASTRONOMICAL income levels from these trillion dollar industries, which themselves spawned trillion dollar industries, because we were either unaware ofrepparttar 103263 opportunity or we chose not to take a risk. A risk that could have catapulted us to a level of wealth unlike we could ever have imagined.

Perhaps it was hard to imagine that automobiles and personal computers would have generated such astounding sales when, atrepparttar 103264 time of their creation, they were in no way a necessity of every day life. However, there were people withrepparttar 103265 valuable gift of foresight who dared to dream and who today are living a life most of us can only experience in our heads.

Until now that is.

Currently, each and every one of us is positioned to make a fortune - to take advantage ofrepparttar 103266 next market boom. A boom that could see us living a life free ofrepparttar 103267 many worries we face today. Whether we choose to take this opportunity, or let it pass us by as others have, is entirely up to is.

If you haverepparttar 103268 desire and determination to create a future void of financial worries and time constraints, then this article could very well changerepparttar 103269 path of your future forever.

You’re probably wondering whatrepparttar 103270 next opportunity is. How can you cash in this time around? Have you heardrepparttar 103271 term Wellness? Wellness is defined as "Products and services provided proactively to healthy people to make them feel even healthier, look better, to slowrepparttar 103272 effects of aging and to preventrepparttar 103273 development of disease". Unlikerepparttar 103274 “Healthcare” industry (more appropriately,repparttar 103275 “Sickness” industry) Wellness is about prevention rather than cure – it is proactive rather than reactive.

Renowned economist Paul Zane Pilzer has predicted thatrepparttar 103276 Wellness industry is set to increase from $200 billion annually to $1 trillion dollars annually by 2010. In it’s short 20 year historyrepparttar 103277 Wellness industry has generated annual sales that have reached half of those ofrepparttar 103278 automobile industry already – a 500% growth - not bad for an industry that’s in it’s infancy and is virtually untapped. 20 years from nowrepparttar 103279 growth will be phenomenal!

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