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You're right, the main part is don't be greedy, but also don't sell yourself short. You can look at several different things to determine your target. Look at previous tickers and see where they went roughly. For example, if you're playing a lazar custodianship, find one of his that has a similar share structure and go off of that for early pops. Of course depending on the R/M it can go anywhere at the end, but the initial pops (custodian assigned, etc.) are normally pretty close if SS is similar. You can look at history of the stock if it's ran in the past. Look at resistance and see where you think the run will stall. Check RSI and see where it normally resets at and go off of that. Company valuation, is good to determine book value, but share price doesn't always reflect that, especially in the OTC. Look at the sector and see what other similarly valued companies are at in comparison to company valuation. If you're flipping you can look at the amount you own and determine how much you want to make. Say a 15% flip on a swing, or a 3% daytrade, but that's normally in big board trades where you have a lot of funds to play with. In the OTC it's normally a swing of 100% or 1000% maybe and then a daily flip of say 20% maybe (or 100% sometimes). Really just whatever you think is worth your time AND reasonable/easy. You always want to be safe and not greedy if you play it like that. That's when your target becomes the most important I'd say because that's when it's the easiest to get caught up in hype and get greedy.
But in all honesty, if you trade enough, you just kind of get a gut feeling of where it will go. Sometimes you can look at a chart and what type of play it is and think "oh I've seen plenty of these run from .002 to .02 so I'm going to set an initial target to pay for my position at .0075, and then a sell at .009, .0014, etc. if you want to be safe. If not you could always adjust your target higher, just depending on how safe you want to be, how many shares you own/how easy it is to get out and buy shares back, and how long you want to hold it. It's normally good to sell before whole numbers, because normally they act as resistance. And you can watch and adjust that too. If the stock blows through this level, then I will hold until this level, or if the stock slows at this level, then I'll sell it all, wait for it to reset, and then buy back lower. Just don't get hung up in a run and hype and think every runner is going to $10 from trips.
Thank you Digthemup and Bassmaster96.
That is a lot of technical Information but I will read it over a few times and research the meaning of the terms you used so I can get a better understanding of what it is you are telling me.
I appreciate you guys taking the time to answer as I am aware of how much time and effort you put in to learning this stuff and passing it along to me.
Looks like you guys are going to get a pop here today
movement today
Good gosh what a run. I told myself to buy a few minutes ago when it was 11% up....Could have had a 40% flip in 2 minutes
i was in at .02 for weeks - i gladly got out yesterday at .05
I dumped my shares just a tick under .06 earlier today. Happy to take some profit and move on.