Also the same shares would have made some go broke recently. Even HNWI are in trouble due to them
Unless you are a very experienced player, I suggest you do not play with speculatives in this environment. Though you might have thought and regretted with some speculatives that went up recently " I could have made fast money", these same speculatives can cause you big heart aches. When the big investors find their buyer at their prices and sell off that might be the end for it for a while. So don't buy at top of rallies.
The market is much different than those days. Though market will always find suckers ( no offence) lot of people already got burnt and are smarter now. So it is not too easy to have massive runs with speculative like they used to. Why? People are aware of these shares and SEC is too so manipulative efforts will be difficult.
So if you are genuinely "investing" with patience to hold and not gambling, go for fundamentally strong stocks and counters . There are plenty of good stocks on offer. Search the forum. Don;t chase crap shares and get burnt again . 10% chance you can be a winner and 90% chance you can be a big loser specially if you do not know what you are doing. So be careful and won;t loose track of investing in real value shares even if occasionally certain speculative raise their head and you may get distracted.