Share Liquidity - warning

When looking for shares to invest in, unless you are intending to be in one for the long haul, check out the liquidity of it ie. the volume of shares traded on a daily basis.

If there are a lot of days that no shares change hands, then you will get in easily enough, but could be trapped there waiting for specific news to get activity in the share to get the price up to then achieve a profit and get out again. You could be trapped for 3, 6 ,9 months or more.

In first year of share dealing this happened to me a few times. It's all a learning curve. :o)