The tendency to slip into the flipping mode mentality is caused by many things. Impatience, arrogance, fear, lack of investing skills and/or knowledge, etc. One of the main reasons why flipping is so dangerous is that in order to hold a short term day trade for the least amount of time but to still get a positive ROI, one must quickly get in and get out with all of the capital used in the trade and this causes the flipper to be forced into throwing all of his money into the stock at one level in a very small interval of time (instead of long term investing which entails getting in bit by bit at many price levels). This causes the entire capital of the quick flip position to get whipped around during the few hours that the position is held, then no matter where it ends up the flipper must simply sell out, even if there is a lack of good buyers present. Typically it is a losing proposition, unless the trading vehicle used is liquid enough. By getting in all at one level or a few near levels, the flipper is exercising much arrogance as regards assuming he/she knows that the cost basis of their position will remain below the current share price or the price when they intend to exit. If they attempt to mitigate this by immediately placing stop loss orders to get fully out of the position at one or two ticks lower from where they got in, then chances are the stop loss orders will be triggered by MMs shorting and pulling the PPS down on low volume in order to trigger those stop loss orders in order to cover low, and alas this gives the flipper realized losses for the day. They laugh at long term "investing" in pink sheet stocks but frankly the flipping or day trading strategy to use the pink sheets stocks as merely a trading vehicle is a bankrupt strategy. They surmise that one should play all the fluctuations, getting in and out at bottoms and tops, exactly perfectly, but we all know this to be impossible, no one can know exactly where all the future fluctuations of the stock will take place. To assume one can know and profit off of every single fluctuation is overly arrogant and arrogance in investing gets the investor into trouble. Flipping for daily gains in pink sheets stocks is akin to waltzing into a casino in Vegas and throwing all of your money on black in a Roulette game. If you win great, you doubled your money (on mere luck) but if you lose you are done, toast, its all over, might as well go home. And these same flipping gamblers even when they win will keep on doing it, letting it all ride on the next round of betting where they slide over all their chips onto red. Its just crazy and its not investing, its gambling. If you merely gamble, sooner or later your luck will run out and you will lose all of your money. Chances are you will become like those losers who have no skin in the game but sit on the sidelines and heckle those who still have money and are properly investing in the market. Its extremely pathetic but there are also those who do it for psychological manipulation in order to drum up liquidity so they can have higher volumes to flip and short, think about it; of course the bashing shorties will tell you that flipping in and out is the best strategy, they want us all in and out of the stock and never to hold. Why? Because long term investors lock up the float, that means less shares for the shorting bashers to work with on a daily basis and it means the stock is stronger because there is a base in the stock keeping it above certain levels. The best margins for day trading short basher MMs and flippers is to get the stock down (cellar-boxed) and then have most of the float trading hands each day leading to massive volume but the PPS never can get up and build momentum. If it builds momentum to the upside and sustains the move then their daily shorting and covering flipping tactics do not work, as each day more and more of the float is bought up and they eventually have to move on to another stock to manipulate. This is all well known by now because the dark side has used the same tactics for years so people get wise to it eventually. The first step is learning to not listen to a word they say on the boards, then if the stock shows low volume just dismiss the PPS daily move, and finally do your OWN DD, do not trust their points and arguments at face value, they are spin-masters of lies and deceit; they attempt to prove their points by way of linking other posts from other basher shorties, its all smoke and mirrors. You must unlearn what you have learned. 
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