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Best Penny Stocks Under 25 Cents to Buy Today

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Written by Timothy Sykes
Updated 4/29/2024 8 min read
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The best penny stocks under 25 cents to buy today depend on today’s chart. The fact is, 99.9% of these cheap stocks will eventually be worth less than they are right now. That’s why I tell my students to build a watchlist every day.

The best traders watch more stocks than they trade. That’s essential for getting to know the charts of these stocks — these charts will give you valuable info about their future moves. If you study the patterns these stocks follow, you can find opportunities for the kind of small gains that can grow a small account fast.

Today I’ll show you how to build a watchlist for stocks under 25 cents. Read on for the results!

What Are the Best Penny Stocks to Buy Under 25 cents in May 2024?

To find the best penny stocks to buy under 25 cents in May 2024 requires a top-level stock screener. I use the one in StocksToTrade — I helped design it, so it has all the tools and customizations I look for to create my penny stock watchlists.

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To find watch-worthy penny stocks under 25 cents, I input the following criteria:

  • Last Price ≤ $0.25
  • Last Price ≥ $0.05
  • Volume ≥ 100,000
  • Number of Trades ≥ 50

When I run this screen in May 2024 and sort by percent change, it gives me the following top results:

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Best Penny Stocks Under 25 cents to Buy in May 2024

The best penny stocks under 25 cents in May 2024 are:

This is a watchlist — not a “buy list.”

I’m sharing this so you can see my process. If you want to see more NO-COST watchlists, you can sign up for my weekly watchlist here.

Read on for the best penny stocks that I’m watching today!

Recon Technology Ltd. [NASDAQ: RCON]

Recon Technology Ltd is a leading oilfield service company. The company is engaged in the sale of oilfield automation products, equipment for oil and gas production and transportation, and engineering services. It has three operating segments: Automation Product and Software, Equipment and Accessories, and Oilfield Environmental Protection. Most of the firm’s revenue comes from the Automation Product and Software segment.

Pineapple Energy Inc. [NASDAQ: PEGY]

Pineapple Energy Inc. is focused on growing leading local and regional solar, storage, and energy services companies nationwide. Our vision is to power the energy transition through grass-roots growth of solar electricity paired with battery storage. Our portfolio of brands, Hawaii Energy Connection, E-Gear, Sungevity and Horizon Solar Power, provide homeowners and small businesses with an end-to-end product offering spanning solar, battery storage, and grid services.

Bruush Oral Care Inc. [NASDAQ: BRSH]

Bruush Oral Care Inc offers electric toothbrushes. It offers an electric toothbrush fused with sonic technology with six cleaning modes and ultra-soft bristles for an effective clean.

SRIVARU Holding Limited [NASDAQ: SVMH]

SRIVARU Holding Limited is a commercial-stage provider of e-motorbikes in India. The Company provides affordable electric two- wheeled vehicles (E2W) that provide a riding experience with redundant three-channel automated braking, a low center of gravity to improve stability, enhanced safety features, and easy charging compatible with home charging outlets. The Company has an array of intellectual property, including a patent-pending chassis and drive acceleration system. Its e-motorbike, PRANA, is available in three variants: Class, Grand and Elite.

Akanda Corp. [NASDAQ: AKAN]

Akanda Corp is an international medical cannabis company cultivating cannabis of the highest quality at scale, leveraging trusted brands, at a low-cost compared to many of its competitors. The company is building a seed-to-patient supply chain, connecting patients in the UK and Europe with diverse products including cannabis products cultivated at its competitively advantaged grow operation in the Kingdom of Lesotho and with other trusted third-party brands.

Which Is the Cheapest High-Potential Stock to Buy Right Now?

To find the cheapest high-potential stocks, you have to study their charts.

Take a look at the 1-year chart for Clean Vision Corp. [OTCPK: CLNV]:

See how many spikes this stock had in the past year? Each one of these spikes was a trading opportunity — that’s the way I’ve made over $8,000 in total earnings trading this stock (click the link to see my individual trades).

However, that’s not a recommendation to “buy” this stock. See how it drops after every spike?

It follows my 7-step pennystocking framework perfectly. This is the chart you have to commit to memory:

What Are the Penny Stocks Under 25 Cents with the Highest Potential?

Look up at the charts of the stocks above. Do you see any spikes in their long-term chart? That’s a good sign.

History doesn’t repeat, it rhymes. And that’s a good thing for former runners…

Penny Stocks Under 25 Cents FAQs

Just because a stock trades for under 25 cents doesn’t make it cheap. Read on for some more questions you might be asking…

Where can one find the list of companies’ penny stocks under 25 cents?

Get a powerful stock screener like the one in StocksToTrade, and start building parameters. When I’m looking for tradable penny stocks under 25 cents, I want their volume to be great enough for the stock to be liquid. This way I can enter and exit a position more easily.

What are high-volume penny stocks under 25 cents?

A penny stock under 25 cents needs high volume for me to trade it. When I’m building my stock scan, I’ll typically look for stocks that have traded over 1 million shares so far that day.

The scanner I’m using in this article is set to look for penny stocks that have traded more than 100,000 shares. This will help you identify watch-worthy stocks — even if you’re looking in pre-market.

What are some great penny stocks under 25 cents for selling calls and puts?

Options are only offered on certain stocks. Many stocks under 25 cents won’t qualify.

What is Tim Sykes’ favorite stock under 25 cents?

I don’t have a “favorite” stock under 25 cents — I think penny stocks are bad investments, and I don’t trust them at all. Trading scared has helped me make some profitable trades. One ticker that is ALWAYS on watch is Ozop Energy Solutions Inc. (OTCPK: OZSC) — I’ve made $45k over the years trading this penny stock (click the link for my individual trades).

What are the best stocks to buy under 25 cents that pay dividends?

Stocks that trade under 25 cents don’t usually pay dividends. Stocks that cost this little generally don’t have much going for them.

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Timothy Sykes

Tim Sykes is a penny stock trader and teacher who became a self-made millionaire by the age of 22 by trading $12,415 of bar mitzvah money. After becoming disenchanted with the hedge fund world, he established the Tim Sykes Trading Challenge to teach aspiring traders how to follow his trading strategies. He’s been featured in a variety of media outlets including CNN, Larry King, Steve Harvey, Forbes, Men’s Journal, and more. He’s also an active philanthropist and environmental activist, a co-founder of Karmagawa, and has donated millions of dollars to charity. Read More

* Results are not typical and will vary from person to person. Making money trading stocks takes time, dedication, and hard work. There are inherent risks involved with investing in the stock market, including the loss of your investment. Past performance in the market is not indicative of future results. Any investment is at your own risk. See Terms of Service here

The available research on day trading suggests that most active traders lose money. Fees and overtrading are major contributors to these losses.

A 2000 study called “Trading is Hazardous to Your Wealth: The Common Stock Investment Performance of Individual Investors” evaluated 66,465 U.S. households that held stocks from 1991 to 1996. The households that traded most averaged an 11.4% annual return during a period where the overall market gained 17.9%. These lower returns were attributed to overconfidence.

A 2014 paper (revised 2019) titled “Learning Fast or Slow?” analyzed the complete transaction history of the Taiwan Stock Exchange between 1992 and 2006. It looked at the ongoing performance of day traders in this sample, and found that 97% of day traders can expect to lose money from trading, and more than 90% of all day trading volume can be traced to investors who predictably lose money. Additionally, it tied the behavior of gamblers and drivers who get more speeding tickets to overtrading, and cited studies showing that legalized gambling has an inverse effect on trading volume.

A 2019 research study (revised 2020) called “Day Trading for a Living?” observed 19,646 Brazilian futures contract traders who started day trading from 2013 to 2015, and recorded two years of their trading activity. The study authors found that 97% of traders with more than 300 days actively trading lost money, and only 1.1% earned more than the Brazilian minimum wage ($16 USD per day). They hypothesized that the greater returns shown in previous studies did not differentiate between frequent day traders and those who traded rarely, and that more frequent trading activity decreases the chance of profitability.

These studies show the wide variance of the available data on day trading profitability. One thing that seems clear from the research is that most day traders lose money .

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Citations for Disclaimer

Barber, Brad M. and Odean, Terrance, Trading is Hazardous to Your Wealth: The Common Stock Investment Performance of Individual Investors. Available at SSRN: “Day Trading for a Living?”

Barber, Brad M. and Lee, Yi-Tsung and Liu, Yu-Jane and Odean, Terrance and Zhang, Ke, Learning Fast or Slow? (May 28, 2019). Forthcoming: Review of Asset Pricing Studies, Available at SSRN: “https://ssrn.com/abstract=2535636”

Chague, Fernando and De-Losso, Rodrigo and Giovannetti, Bruno, Day Trading for a Living? (June 11, 2020). Available at SSRN: “https://ssrn.com/abstract=3423101”