Last February, a reader suggested I take a look at Commerce Planet: CPNE.OB, a profitable little ecommerce company that had rallied over 500% to top $2.75. Since then, it has pulled back to $1.07, and I decided the potential upside warranted taking a position. Commerce Planet sells ecommerce software as a service, but it is [...]

A few readers have asked me to take a look at Voyant Int’l: VOYT.OB (formerly known as Zeros & Ones, trading under the symbol ZROS). While I certainly wish I was invested in Voyant during the first half of 2007 when it ramped from under 10 cents per share to over $1.50, the investment case [...]

Location-based internet search provider Local.com: LOCM shot up as much as 200% on Friday and Monday, after announcing that it had been granted two patents. Patent No. 7,231,405 covers a method for location-based indexing, ranking and searching. Patent No. 7,200,413 covers a method of utilizing advertising in connection with enhanced 411 services. One commentator has [...]

The last ten years have taught us that any stock may be a scam. Companies that were thought immune from scandal — Enron, Worldcom, Adelphia — flamed out entirely, while hundreds of other blue chips became mired in scandal. Frauds are even more rampant in the microcap arena. I assume that even if I have [...]