What are type of shares have the highest returns?

Question

I saw a show where investors would put large amounts of money on a particular share and get huge returns. The catch was you needed over $250,000 to partake and specify the length of time you held those shares (they may not have been shares, I don't know anything about the stock exchange).

People were being made millionaires in a matter of months from what I could gather... What is this type of investment called? How do I go about doing this?

Answer 1

Its probably a hedge fund.  Normally you have to have a net worth of a million dollars to be allowed to invest in one.

Answer 2

penny stocks are very volatile

Answer 3

To me, it sounds like you are loosely describing options trading.  A lot of money can be made (or lost) trading options very quickly.

Keep in mind that there are no sure things, and the high the return, the higher the risk - aka, you could lose ALL of you investment money.