What is the action of "second tier"?

Gold Klondike "pales before the possibilities of second-tier stock. Let us not deceive anyone, it is too dangerous, but winning, we hope to "restore" all your nerve cells. Immediately divide the concept. There are "blue chip" stocks and have a "second tier". The first - a large company level Gazprom, Sberbank. About them can always be heard, including channel RBC. Shares of the "second tier" is not as popular. Most fall under this concept, small and medium-sized companies, the entire cost of which fits into the framework of 50-500 million dollars. Features of "Blue Chips" very liquid, that is, they can be easily bought and sold in a split second. But buyers or prodavatsam second-tier stock "have to wait sometimes for months. So there are no speculators. Only serious investors. With a lot of money. Because it shares the "second tier" often not sold boxed and in batches of 100-1000 units. Another shortcoming of "second" - it is spread. All faced with the fact that a dollar a exchanger can be bought at one price and sell for a different. Spread - this is just the difference between bid and ask prices. At rallies of "second tier" it is very wide and uncomfortable. Opportunities All these drawbacks are more than covers the return. In the "second tier" hundreds of percent profit is usually the case. For example, shares of North-Western Shipping Company "in the last 12 months have brought their owners 391% profit, the paper" BRIC "- 122%. But there are monsters. In the period from 24 May 2010 to May 24, 2011 preferred stock OMZ grew by 2800%. If you invested in these securities are at least 100 thousand, then a year later "would have taken under the arm" almost 3 million. Bid to buy shares of "second tier" can also be as common stock. That is, open an account with a broker. He will fulfill all of your assignments. Get ready at once to ensure that the money needed to invest in the long term. Shares of the second-tier long can "stamp" at the same price to plummet or rise.