The majority of `investors` on HotCopper have learned the hard way, that there is No Rich quick scheme
All the clichés have past the revue. Never put all your eggs in one basket, diversification etc. At the end of the day you`ve put your hard earned cash in a small cap exploration company, expecting to make a massive return. Resulted in a massive hang- over where the only people who made money The (ex) board members, eagerly getting paid their handsome wages. They couldn't care less about their shareholders, its all Greed!
There is no loyalty when it comes to making money, its dog eat dog. The` good` thing is that you have experienced first hand the pain of losing your hard earned. Take a good lesson out of it, and get educated !
The sharemarket is a wonderfull place to make money, But don`t rely on the so called experts on HotCopper, and neither the trackrecord of boardmembers of your favorite average small cap stock!
That's Not to say, that you cant` make money on IDC, if you have the balls to enter the stock Now, you might be handsomely rewarded. its Risk and reward - It will be either go bust / Kaput, or it will be like a cobra pattern, ... asleep for a long long time, and then out of the blue it might fly, and if its a wet dream, it will fly like a GMM
You take your pick !
