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The Desperate Trader

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Deep dives on one ticker at a time. Every claim traced to a primary source: SEC filings, FINRA short interest, and our own tick-level tape. Written on request, free to read.

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$HAOAug 19, 2026· 5 min

Is $HAO a dead stock? What the filings say

Haoxi booked $32.8 million of revenue and kept $927,750 of it. Then it sold shares at $0.40 with 9.7 million pre-funded warrants attached and consolidated 1-for-20. Not dead, but the Class A shares are the raw material.

$SPCXAug 19, 2026· 8 min

SPCX: the lockup that released, and the much bigger one that did not

SpaceX listed at $135, fell to $108, and a lockup opened on August 6. The selling never came. 455.8 million shares stayed locked because a price condition failed, insiders filed nothing, and Alphabet turned up owning 7.2%. The next release is dated.

$AAPLAug 16, 2026· 5 min

Relative Volume Explained: Why Your Scanner Flags the Same Stocks Every Morning

AAPL trades 411,895 shares in the opening minute and 17,489 at noon, on a day when nothing happened. If your screener compares both to the same average it is measuring the clock, not the stock. Here is our baseline, including the part that is thin.

$NVDA$GOOG$AMZNAug 16, 2026· 5 min

What Is Smart Money Actually Doing? We Track 33 Funds, Including Buffett and Citadel

Buffett, Citadel, Bridgewater, Pershing Square, ARK and 28 more. What they filed, what changed between quarters, and the three faster forms that show what they are doing now instead of four months ago.

$APLMAug 16, 2026· 8 min

APLM: $233 million went in. Here is what the filings actually show

Apollomics raised $233 million privately and those shares are worth $12.7 million today. The people running it now paid $3.93, $12.00 and $15.00, and put $2.25 million of their own cash in this month. The full position, the restrictions, and the one cohort the pipeline is betting on.

$SIDUAug 16, 2026· 6 min

Low float: the number everybody quotes and almost nobody can source

We track 9,005 tickers and can establish a real float for 646 of them. That is not a gap in our data, it is what float actually is. Here is how to tell whether any source knows the number it is showing you.

$MU$JACK$TEAug 16, 2026· 10 min

Short squeeze math: the four numbers that decide it

Micron is 76% above its 200-day and 3% of its shares are sold short. Someone called that an unpriced squeeze. Here is what the data says, and the four checks that separate a crowded trade from a trapped one.

$HTZAug 13, 2026· 12 min

Hertz Ran 89%. It Created a Third of Its Own Short Interest.

The turnaround is real. But Hertz lent 37 million shares to a bank in June so convertible buyers could short them, which changes the squeeze math.

$WLDSAug 13, 2026· 14 min

WLDS: He Won the Board Fight, Then Sold Every Share

An investor bought a quarter of Wearable Devices for $951,425, demanded the board, won four of seven seats, and sold out three days later at double his entry.

$FRGTAug 13, 2026· 28 min

FRGT Took Off Early Morning On Zero News, Then Gave It Back

$70,000 lit the fuse. The filings explain why it never keeps the gain: one firm holds rights to 89% of the company, and disclosed dilution is nearly 20x the float.

$PYXSAug 13, 2026· 7 min

PYXS: Why Pyxis Oncology Crashed 50% With Zero News

A June 30 warrant deal struck at $3.289, a 42% jump in short interest, and a 25-minute halt. Every claim traced to an SEC filing, FINRA data, or the tape.

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