It's not a fairy tale: Once there was a stock (I forgot its name) that initially traded at $ 0.02 in May 2009. It rose to $ 1.75 slowly and then fell back to $ 0.04 steadily. Many sold/bought at this price. All of a sudden ... IMO the buyers were lucky. It was September 2009 that stock hit $ 20.00 within a week. There were people who owned millions of this stock. It became the share of the year.