I'm not really into indexes or mutual funds, that's more retirement stuff.  Very little flexibility, minimum investments, fees. 

 

I used to mess with pink sheets a while ago, and did make some money, but I was amazed how much of a scam those companies were.  Pretty much all of them.  It's not even worth researching the company. The prices are just randomly raised/lowered by market makers. I mean you have all these companies and pretty much all of them are clearly scams, but the SEC does nothing.  There are companies that issue endless amounts of worthless stocks, companies that constantly reverse split when their price reaches .0001 so that websites could still register a price.  SEC is a joke.

 

Shorting is something I wouldn't even touch.  Way too much complexity and uncertainty.

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