You are sadly mistaken on both 1 and 2.
Since my name seems to pop here quite a bit, I'll say it again, I'm not paid to post here or anywhere and never have been.
I am a former shareholder, having owned both LFWK and SLJB many times and overall made some decent money on both symbols, but I'm certainly not disgruntled.
BUT I was never buying into them because I liked either company, I was buying to make money.
With maybe one or two exceptions, I didn't believe any of their news releases and their so called "financials" were a joke since Denny put the first ones up at Pink Sheets....unaudited of course and he admitted in them that they weren't even done by an accountant.
And I said so, even while buying the stock, because I knew two things...one, some people would actually believe the news releases and buy and two, lots of other people would be thinking the same as me and buying to flip it and then it's just a race.
When trading, it's just some letters on an L2 screen, first in are usually first out, last one out is usually a rotten egg and loses money.
Of 12 stocks I bought this week, I still own some of 4 of them, yet I seem to only know the actual company names, of 4 of those 12 and only two of the those are ones I still own.