On the contrary, they often provide great opportunities at least...

On the contrary, they often provide great opportunities at least from a trade perspective (as their success relies on being able to pump up the share price). And there are still good speculative opportunities in some companies that use Pattos for their funding raisings, many brokers won't provide these sort of services at this end of the market but Pattos have it perfected.

If I were going to give any advice, which I am not because it's not allowed, it would be get really rich so that you can participate in Pattos sophi placements. Almost guaranteed profits (notice I said almost - some pump n dump attempts do go haywire particularly if Pattos have pumped and dumped them many times before eg RMX in the old days).