Buying penny stocks is potentially very profitable, but penny stock investing is also filled with risks. Thorough research and evaluation of stocks can greatly reduce the risk, but this process is tedious and requires a considerable investment of time and effort.

There is a new computer "bot" that has been created that analyzes penny stocks thorough in-depth mathematical analysis and by doing so dramatically decreases the risks and increases the profits from buying penny stocks, while greatly simplifying the work of choosing what stocks to buy and when. Of course, such a system does not come cheaply, but there is an opportunity for even the smallest of investors to reap the benefits of it.

Penny stocks have considerable advantages to small investors as compared to other stock investments. The low stock price allows those with small amounts of money to invest to buy shares of multiple stocks and diversify their portfolios much more than they could with higher value stocks. Because even small dollar and cent changes in price can translate to large percentage changes in the price of penny stocks, good profits can be had with relatively low amounts of money invested.

For example, if you had $1000.00 to invest, and put it into some stock on the S&P 500 list at a purchase price of $100.00 per share, and it went up by $1.00 per share, your $1000 investment would yield $10.00. But, if you purchased $1000.00 worth of a penny stock at a purchase price of $1.00 and it went up by $1.00 per share to $2.00, your $1000 just became $2000 - a yield of $1000!

Now, by the same token, penny stocks can lose a bunch of money very quickly too, which is one reason why it is important to be very careful when buying penny stocks. Another reason that penny stock investing is risky is because of shady or outright fraudulent practices of some individuals involved in marketing and selling penny stocks. Because companies that issue penny stocks are not required to file financial reports with the SEC, it can be difficult to obtain reliable information to really assess the stock.

Penny stock is often sold using hard-sell and shady or outright fraudulent marketing ploys. As unsuspecting investors buy up over-hyped stocks and the stock price rises, the insiders wait until the price reaches its ceiling and then quickly sell off their shares. With the sell-off, the price per share plummets and the investor is left holding worthless stock that never had anything more going for it than a good sales pitch. Investments with potentially high returns over a short period of time do tend to be risky, but in penny stocks the relatively large amounts of fraud increase the risk way beyond what can be attributed to normal market forces.

Until recently, buying penny stocks required a tremendous amount of research and evaluation of stocks to avoid scams and have a decent chance of getting a good return on investment. A prudent penny stock investor might need to spend hours of work just to evaluate one stock. Done right, this work would likely pay off, but the necessary time investment put the high profitability of penny stock investing out of the reach of casual part-time investors.

Recently, a penny stock buying robot, called "Marl" was created by computer programmers who also understood the intricacies of stock investing. Marl uses mathematical and statistical analysis of trends to predict stocks that will likely increase in value by large percentages. Marl has the obvious advantage that he can do in-depth analyses of many stocks in much less time than a human would take to study just one. Another big advantage of Marl is that he's cold and calculating and maked his pics strictly on mathematical analysis - there's no pesky emotion to get in the way of making sound investment decisions. Of course there's no way to pick a winner every time, but Marl has a much better track record than any human and this greatly reduces the risk of penny stock investing.

Marl has allowed some big investors to make many millions of dollars, and as such, Marl doesn't come cheaply. At $28,000 to purchase Marl, he's out of the question for most investors, but there is a way for investors with even the smallest of budgets to use Marl. Marl's human inventors put out a very affordable newsletter with Marl's top penny stock pick each week. In the case of those investors new to penny stocks, this could be preferable initially to owning Marl, as it limits their investment choices to just one stock per week as opposed to having to select from many options. This makes for easy stock investing for even the newest of "newbies" to penny stock investing.

Sadly, Marl's inventors are indicating that they will soon cease to offer the newsletter to new subscribers. Hopefully they will reconsider and continue to offer this valuable service that puts small investors on a more even playing field with large investors. For the time being anyway, Marl provides small investors with a great opportunity to profit from buying penny stocks.