When discussing micro-cap stocks, it’s important to recognize their general overlap with the world of penny stocks. These stocks trade as shares of companies with market capitalizations between $50 million and$300 million. While those numbers may sound worthy to the individual investor, they represent a generally risky position for a handful of reasons.The first is that micro-cap stocks are often derived from young and relatively unproven companies. Just because a company publicly trades on the Nasdaq does ...