One of the side bars to the entire Dot Com market rise and bust was that everyone wanted to buy stocks. But MANY people could only invest very small sums, so they would turn to penny stocks. I used to follow some of these companies on Raging Bull. There was one company, NCT Group, that was fascinating. When I started following it, the shares were 7 cents a piece. By the time it finally went under, the shares were worth a fraction of a penny.

I did a ton of research into how this company stayed in business. I looked up every officer and director and also the main funder of their losses- Carole Salkind. This lady was married to a guy named Morty Salkind. Following the money trail, I was fairly certain this was a money laundering operation. Long story short, fast forward many years, and Chris Christie put Morty Salkind in jail for tax evasion.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/14/nyreg ... istie.html

There were hundreds of crazy penny stocks out there.

Those places were great for stock geeks. Raging Bull was awesome for micro caps. Yahoo Finance was best for listed companies. In those days, I was the world's biggest troll. Why anyone would respond to someone with the user name, "backdoorbuddy" is beyond me, but they did.

I was wondering what the Peoria Math was all about. That's funny.

Can I call you and sell you some penny stocks?

What would really be good is a JORR jogging story. The guy can make just about anything he talks about entertaining. A JORR pairing with regular reader could be a thing, although the verdict is still out if RR is more of a written word ki d of guy. .