You sound like a nice guy, so I'll tell you something that may help you. Penny stocks are not destroyed by flippers, or MMs, or shorts, and so on. They are destroyed by their own insiders who create and sell way more stock than the company is worth, knowing that the "company" will fail. The "company", despite all the PR and pumping, is simply in the business of selling stock to the retail buying public. They (the insiders and their cronies) just dump as much stock as they can get people to buy and then move on to the next batch of victims. I hate to see nice people like you victimized by these scams. QASP is no better or worse than any of thousands of examples.