1. are honest
2. are clever
3. have lots of money.
4. have cheap stock (you mean options?)
Is this a pick any two question? Not even! It's more often like pick any one! In mining you get a few with the first two, and a few with the last two. I don't know about companies with only 1 and 3. I think you have to leave out 1 all too often. And that isn't really 2 of them is it? A few investors have only 1 and 3. Some have 2, too. You don't want too clever in that category, as they might be too clever for us. After all we are in a high risk trade. Perhaps it is we who are not 2, or 1 with ourselves. I added 4 after rereading your post.. well then it is harder still. What is cheap? It really means "going up" So forget the first three and try to find the relevant factors! <g>
It is either a hard question to answer in that it may exhaust you to try to find answers, or easy, in that the answers should stand out, and if you don't know them already, they probably don't exist.
EC<:-}