I will be avoiding stocks that declare a mixed shelf offering. A mixed shelf offering is an offering that stays open until the price is reached or 3 years. Once announced they wont announce it again in the hope that investors will forget about it. Once a mixed shelf is filed, anytime the stock goes up they can and will add shares. There are no long term gains because the stock just stays sideways. And unless you watch the stock all day and sell as soon as a spike happens you wont have s...