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In volatile times like these, it's imperative to provide timely reports and reviews, especially during earnings season or just before a big acquisition, bailout or reverse stock split.

Companies are touting all sorts of magic tricks with their earnings this year in hopes of luring in investors who aren't actively paying attention to the market. In case you've been asleep for the past year, you know all too well of General Motors' recent collapse and takeover by the U.S. Government. GM's ticker symbol was recently changed to MTLQQ, a.k.a., Motors Liquidation Company. At a glance, the big volatility may be appealing to you, but if you weren't paying attention you could find yourself stuck with a worthless stock. You might ask, if the stock is going up, why is it worthless? Well, that's just it. It's entirely and exclusively comprised of the unwanted assets that GM pawned off to clean up their books. This stock represents only the bad assets. Why would I ever invest in that? Day traders might make a buck here and there, but anyone going long will probably get burned.

AIG is another company taking drastic measures to push up the stock price. American International Group, Inc. last year pushed through a reverse stock split during their company meeting in hopes of attracting new investors. Certainly, if you took a one or two week vacation, which most people do during the summer, and come back only to see AIG trading in the $13.00 - $20.00 range, you might feel you missed the boat. Especially since the stock was trading around a buck just before you went on vacation. In case you missed the big news, AIG went through a 1-for-20 reverse stock split on June 30, 2009. The reverse split did nothing more, but give people more expensive shares to short.

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