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Quote from jb514:

Hey Daal, do you ever play a lot of these small/micro cap runners that are essentially pump and dumps? It seems like there are a lot of guys who swing them short.

Symbols like
PLUG
RNN
CNAT
OXBT
TNXP
VISN
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RNN is a "me too" biotech play.

CNAT (and GALT) is a "me too" biotech play on ICPT.

I am thinking of starting a company called m22au pharmaceuticals and applying for an IPO.
 
Quote from jb514:

Hey Daal, do you ever play a lot of these small/micro cap runners that are essentially pump and dumps? It seems like there are a lot of guys who swing them short.

Symbols like
PLUG
RNN
CNAT
OXBT
TNXP
VISN
More...

Yes but only in a daytrading maybe overnight basis. Got really unlucky on RNN, I shorted the day before the big tank in the last hour at $1.56ish, the stock put one last squeeze to $1.75 before tanking straight down to $1 the next day (I was going to carry overnight). I couldn't take the pain and closed at $1.72. I'm not sure what I did wrong there. Guess you have to short the rallies and not chase these plays down but I just sensed it was bounded to tank, I was right but the noise caught me. PLUG I made a bit, not a lot
 
I did okay on RNN actually. I was short 1.56ish hoping to add if it squeezed to 2, but it never did. A lot of the guys I see trade this stuff risk pretty wide stops and hold multiple days.
I think when trading these things, you have to think big picture, which often mean shorting on the way up and covering days later on the way down. I think they are kind of difficult to solely trade intraday since they rarely dump all at once. RNN being an exception.

KONE could have been a decent trade. I don't think you could have sized in since it probably could have gone 20+, but it would have been good for a few points on starter size.
 
jb514 said:
LIVE is something to look at. Started the year at 4.06 and closed Friday at 21.18
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YEs. I started a sep. thread on LIVE ...can't find shares to borrow though.
Digging deeper and hope to locate stock if this is a real pig.
 
LIVE was etb at a lot of brokers last week so you could have boxed

Was short CTIC, which came in nicely. I think there could be edge in shorting a lot of these over extended small/micro caps.
 
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