<p>@GordonGekko No, senior in High School now. If I got into my top schools I’d probably pick Columbia over Harvard to be in NYC.</p>
<p>A little ironic your username and you’re hate of pump and dumps, lol. Running a pump and dump with such limited capital like OP would have would be an impossibility unless he was working closely with a few other guys running newsletters that had much bigger user-bases and capital. </p>
<p>The SEC busted a few guys in Western Canada back in '10 and they had hundreds of thousands of subscribers, spent hundreds of thousands in advertising a day and invested millions through off-shore trusts primarily in order to profit marginally off shorting penny stocks. </p>
<p>They made a lot of money, but had resources that dwarfed any smaller investor like OP. </p>
<p>Sounds like OP was running a legit operation but got taken down by the SEC for just the age thing. If there was any indication of pumping and dumping involved age would not have been a factor is prosecuting severely.</p>