The procedure has been called “one of the most barbaric mistakes ever perpetrated by mainstream medicine.” Back when medicine was highly primitive, the process involved shoving an ice pick-like instrument between the upper eyelid and the eye in hopes of severing certain nerves of the frontal lobe.

Volatile price swings seem to be the name of the game in the small-cap world these days – and after hitting record-breaking volatility back in December, many investors have been left wondering when things are going to calm down. But unlike blue-chip stocks, where high price volatility is an unwelcome trend, that same price flux can equal serious profits for small-cap stocks.

The S&P 500 is already starting to stage the next leg of its downward slide. But don’t let that scare you…

So far this year, three of the world’s safest blue chip stocks returned 58.5%, 85.2%, and 112.5%, but most investors weren’t even able to touch them. Today, I’ll show you how you can…

You could be losing serious money every time you buy or sell a stock. Over time, that could add up to thousands upon thousands of dollars of losses and missed profits. You’re not alone – millions of investors fall into the same investing trap every year. But armed with these three secrets to profitable small-cap order execution, you can make sure that you’re on the upside of every penny stock trade.

Small caps have done it once again. Proving they want nothing to do with the realm of Blue Chips, some of the world’s smallest companies are surging while the rest of the market plunges.

American International Group (NYSE: AIG) has been taking a beating over the past two weeks, and even with its recent 20-1 reverse stock split, it’s been headed back down.  So far in fact, that we’re getting close to the price we talked about on March 9 – $.35 (or split adjusted $7.00).

When you are about to invest in a penny stock, the number one question you need to ask yourself is: What’s the catalyst?

“[During a recession] small stocks outperformed T-Bills, bonds, and the S&P about two-thirds of the time — and they did so by a ridiculous margin,” claims the Motley Fool’s Ilan Moscovitz.

Due to the magnitude of the recent bear market, we’ve been able to buy a lot of fine companies for less than $10 a share. Many of them are already trading considerably higher. Yet some readers want us to go all the way down to the cellar.