You can always set a mental stop loss and bail. I'd rather lose 10 - 15% and get back in later than to watch my entire investment keep going down. Pennyland is a dangerous place if not played correctly. Use those mental stops. And don't ever marry a penny stock IMO.
To be honest, all stocks are a gamble. I don't know if I would call myself a long but I do hold a pretty good amount of shares in HCTI and I can not give you assurances this will go back up. I happen to think it will, but how much I do not know. If the company comes out and announces something good, then yes, this stock should fly pretty darn good.
First, one should never take any advice to buy at extremely elevated and unjustified levels,
...and secondly, one should never ask for advice from the same crowd that got ya in the mess, in the first place.
Chart shows where I bought and sold HCTI. I sold where/when I did because nothing justified HCTI going any higher. No new material developments, and certainly not the growing debt on the books.