Personal Finance and Investing

What I mean by "treat it as a trade" (using the graph) is you want to try to buy this at a low, wait for it to go up a bit, then sell higher. This stock is too volatile to even begin considering it as an "investment" (something you hold for a long time). If you can figure out the timeframe(s) that the pattern repeats, you can buy and sell this again and again. I did something similar years ago with VMWare's stock when it was trading in a volatile cycle.

Just as a general rule, if its not crystal clear what a company does, its not adviseable to buy that company's stock or bonds. With any security you buy, you should absolutely know what that company does or produces. Remember the lesson from Enron?