"I did not say anything about the value of the company being tied to the bid/ask."
But the market value is a direct descendant of what the ask & bid are doing each day so whether you knew it or not, or intended or didn't, you were talking about value.
"Also, any new investors out there will clearly see that these message boards are a mess and not put any stock in them either way."
It's about a 50/50 split from my experience. I believe a logical person can quite easily navigate through the mess and find himself learning from an educated individual that doesn't fall in love with stocks but instead sticks to the facts about each case. I believe very few of those individuals exist.
The value of a company, what I call the inherent value, often has little relation to stock price from which market cap is derived and this is especially true in the case of many so-called penny stocks. From what I have seen, and I made some significant money trading nnlx, the only way to make money on it is trading. The inherent value of the company isn't worth spit.
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