It's not been without pain, but over the years of investing, I have come to the investing strategy, with precious few exceptions (ERHE one of them), to avoid extremely very high risk companies, such as bb's, until the fundamentals have stabilized to form a worthy risk investment. This is predicated on the position that I would rather end up paying more for shares that are going up, rather than to potentially end up worthless and incur years of dollars not 'working' for me.
Huge positions, and incredible leverage from penney stocks are potentially phenomenal, but are few and far between and have a way of being a 'curse' and distorting one's sound perception of things as one becomes caught up in a dream gone bad, imo.