Look bud you have to sell short to sell on the long. Let me guide you if you will through this process. You always want to keep a short position. You start your play with a thousand dollars giving you just as example two shares.
You watch the trend. Goes up sell your two shares. Goes down sell one share forcing a short situation keeping in mind the volume relative to the outstanding share count. Buy back in and hope for a long sell. If it is still driven down lower do it again with new money.
This next step is a deal breaker, should the shares be forward split always sell into the split and buy on the reverse split as the float is tightened up.
Now there can be a forward split on the outstanding shares and not the float. This has no significant outcome on trading of the stock or valuation as the pie can be split up into many slices but a third of something is always a third regardless of the number of bits that make up the third.
Float is common share price divided by market valuation divided by share price.
Outstanding shares divided by the above obtained figure is the bookvalue of the share.
All your trading should be based on book valuation given by the accountants. No numbers no book value is given and the shares are of no value except what the next guy is willing to pay you for them. Bit coins is a good example of this.
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