But you can still make a quick 10 -20% profit on dips as well. Of course it backfired on me the other day. I bought more RIMM which I thought was unfairly beaten down for 2 days. Wasn't expecting it to be beaten down, with the rest of the market, for a third day. Rebounded nicely today and I expect good things from this stock in the near future.
Got a nice return of about 23% on MCHX when that stock was beaten down a couple of months ago to $9.15.
The problem is when to sell. I was up over 25% on RIMM in just about 2 weeks but I got greedy. As they say:
Pigs get fed hogs get slaughtered.
Those risky 100% return, get rich quick stocks sound nice but you can do just as well with good stocks going up 10 - 25% in just a few weeks/months. Do that a few times and you have your 100% profit.