If you have been following my profile, you are probably familiar with my style of trading penny stocks, which involves scanning for stocks which have been beaten down and are about to move, fueled by company issued BS press releases, or trading momentum for one reason or another.

The proper risk management when trading these stocks is to diversify into about 5 stocks, which are seemingly uncorrelated. The issue is that when the general stock market risk is OFF, then the correlation increases among penny stocks and they become one of the least desirable assets, so those 5 stocks might be drawing down nearly equally as having a single stock. This fact, along with certain the trends which have emerged after the PDT removal are presenting us with unique opportunities in momentum penny stock trading.

Without spelling out the specifics, I will run an experiment/challenge where I use my new scanner each day for the most promising stocks, and pick up to 5 of them, but often 1 or 2, and aim to get in before the crowd and get out before they run for the exits, while rolling the capital and remaining fully invested.

This will be a similar but different experiment from my "Ten Doublings" challenge, where I aim to find only 2X stocks and not settle for less than 100% gains. In this challenge I will keep the duration short, and the aim will be to close the trades the same day or the next day. What used to happen over weeks and months with swing trading can now be compressed in day trading, thanks to the regulators who got rid of the PDT rule, AI automation, and people just being people when it comes to trading psychology.

Stay tuned for my trades, and ask any questions which you may have. Good luck if you choose to trade the same or similar trades, and keep in mind that these my trades only, for educational purposes, and that you need to do your own research and formulate your own trades.

Cheers!

PS: This is will likely be my last reddit challenge before I ride into the sunset. My health is not great and I have a family to care for, so this challenge contains "yolo" intentionally and appropriately.

Has been reduced to bots, shills, and other pretty useless denizens.

On one hand, the more people trust AI BS, the more predictable things will become.

On the other hand, true intellectuals will become reclusive and gatekeep even more.

So the question is: do we embrace the inevitable dumbing down and unification of all markets into either risk ON or OFF< or do we reject it, and keep finding niche strategies overlooked by the herd?

They are in a lose-lose situation, between rock and a hard place, can't lie or beg, pretty much doomed no matter what they say.

For the regards out there, this is a butterfly where I risk $170 to make a max of $5000-$170 per spread.

UPDATE: Read above again regards - this spread is risking $170...one hundred and seventy bucks, to make a maximum of $4830 if the stock is at $800. So while this spread is most likely going to zero, I will 100% guaranteed be OK after making a bet worth $170. I guarantee it.

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A final lesson for anyone trading or God forbid investing in penny stocks:

From a long-term investment perspective, <insert symbol of your favorite bagholder stock> represents a high-risk structural short or avoid. The company's business model is fractured, relying on pivots across completely unrelated sectors to drive financing rounds and avoid Nasdaq delisting.

From a short-term trading perspective, it is purely a tool for momentum trading. If you are tracking this for short-squeeze setups or catalyst trading, the key is understanding that the spikes are meant to be sold. Any piece of genuine, high-volume news triggers an algorithmic and retail pump, which management historically uses as an immediate window to issue equity or close a private placement. Treat it strictly as a short-term catalyst play, and never get married to the narrative.

Keep this in mind as you read "dd" and "news" and other narrative pushed by management, bots, or criminals - 99% of it is fake so they can dump worthless paper on you, the dumb share(bag)holder.

Are there excellent trading opportunities in penny stocks? You better believe it, and plenty of them every day. But they are a depreciating asset because of management greed and constant dilution.

Good luck in your trading, and have a good weekend!

I called ILLR yesterday even though my trading in it was not great, and from the same scanner I am calling YYAI as a stock poised to double on low float and unusual trading.

I own YYAI and I will add, trim, or sell as I see fit, do your own research and formulate your own trades

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I own this stock and I will trade it as I see fit. do your own research and formulate your own trades.

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I own this stock and I will sell it as I see fit, or add, trim, or close it completely. Do your own research and diligence, and formulate your own trades.

EDIT: this stock doubled for a few minutes in the extended session but there is still no official "news".

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Even though it is not precisely over 100%, it was there on Friday and I will count it.

I own a few others which may double but none near the $8K which is the capital requirement for the 4th doubling to get up to $16K. After some rebalancing here I will let you know which one it will be, including $OTLK for an extended move toward $3.

What does everyone think about this short list of stocks? Which one has the biggest chance to double next?

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EDIT: the level of AI bots commenting is unreal, so just ignore them and report them.

The timing is from a complicated algo which contains fundamental, technical and descriptive as well as ownership components, but the trade formulation might be something this crowd might be interested in.

They call this the "stupid" spread because it is basically a bet in one direction. The stock was trading around the short put strike when I opened it.

To me, financing a bet is always a plus, but the better trade might have been a single call and not a spread, financed with a longer dated put spread.

Cash on cash return is $4 on $1, but the margin is actually $3.5 for the spread so the actual return on margin is smaller.

Hope you all enjoy the set up and the trade.

The profile is as follows:

1. Above 325 - $4 gain
2. 317.5 to 320 - $1 loss
3. Below 315 - $3.5 loss
4. Between call strikes - stock price minus 320 minus $1
5. Between put strikes - 317.5 minus stock price minus $1

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Here is one more in the cheap calendar "near arbitrage" type trades.

Last time I was actually at a net credit, and this time I paid a penny plus commissions to get exposure to $OSUR.

Ideally this stock moves to just below $5 by the June expiration and then once those calls expire, it explodes before the July expiration.

To me, these are the type of convex small risk / huge potential that retail traders often either ignore or miss. It is hard to find $20K worth of notional value in biotech for a month by risking $50+commissions.

This mispricing happened because a large order moved the June $5 calls today but July did not move much, so I sold the expensive options and bought the relatively cheap ones in July. It took some work to get a fill on the short leg, but even though 5 minutes passed, the stock was unchanged, so for the pedantic types saying I took a risk by legging into it - this is the only way to trade these since there is no way to get a fill as a spread at one penny.

Good luck to all, cheers!

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UPDATE: the demand for the July options exploded, as I suspected so this spread is currently priced at a theoretical 20 cents, which is up 20X from my trade, before the commissions and fees, but up over 8x after commissions. I will wait a bit longer for the options to get back in line and then close it out.

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Politika nastrana, ne zboruvam za uslugi vo javen sektor, polu-javen kako postata, ili reguliran sektor kako na primer bankarstvo. site znaeme do kade sme stignale.

Ako ste bile nadvor, koj proizvod ili usluga vi nedostasuva najmnogu vo MK?

Prasuvam za sloboden pazar kade sto privatnici mozat da se natprevaruvaat so kvalitet, nov nacin na rabota, nov proces, itn.

Hrana, higiena, obleka, pristap do knigi, tehnika, uslugi vo sekojdneven zivot, itn. se samo primeri.

So it is public that the other side is a "financial institution" and the expiration of the option trade is Feb 2028.

Does anyone know form reading or interviews who is on the other side of $GME's EBAY options trade?

Thanks in advance!

$FCUV's description is that are working on some widget sensor thing, but recently they are pumping out press releases that they are also into AI software for reading SEC filings.

Funny thing is...I have been reading SEC filings for decades and I know a bit about them.

Keep this in mind as you keep reading: the enemy number one to retail traders when trading/investing in penny stocks is no one other than the company management - they are there so sell more shares, and get rich in the process, and rarely to provide a valuable product or service and return value to the shareholders.

So what did this stock's management decide to do with the cash from selling stock?

They bough real estate. Good looking piece of real estate 901 Corporate Center Drive, Monterey Park, California 91754, see below for details

As of the March 31 report, they had $6M in cash, but they raised another $4M in an offering and they spent about $6M for the down payment, so that leaves them with about $4M in cash, which a the current share count of around 2M, is $2 per share in hard cash....assuming they are not burning much, which they are, and we come to the next chapter in the valuation which is...

The down payment was so significant that it brings another $3 in cash per share, for a total of $5 in cash per share, assuming that the real estate is worth what they paid, and disregarding the fact that they brag that it has an assessed value of $28M.

Here comes the interesting part - common share holders will be diluted and will not be able to touch this crown jewel or the cash this company has spent $3 per share in cash, unless they buy up enough votes to vote NO on the planned potentially dilutive offering.

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1590418/000168316826003297/focus_defa14a.htm

If enough people buy the stock, and vote against than they even have a chance to look into the corporate books according to Nevada law, and examine why the company spent so much money on a down payment, instead of R&D for the SEC filings AI software.

Here are the real estate details:

https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/1590418/000168316826003231/focus_8k.htm

On April 17, 2026, Focus Universal Inc. (the “Company”), through a wholly owned subsidiary, Lusher Holding LLC (the “Lusher Holding”), closed the acquisition of Class A office and commercial building along with a four-level parking structure, located at 901 Corporate Center Drive, Monterey Park, California 91754 (the “Property”). The Seller of the Property was 901 Corporate Center, LP (the “Seller”). The Seller does not have a material relationship with the Company, and the acquisition was not an affiliated transaction.

 

The aggregate purchase price of the Property was $17,700,000, exclusive of closing costs (the “Purchase Price”). The Company made an initial down payment of $525,000 on January 26, 2026. On April 17, 2026, the Company funded the Purchase Price with a loan of $11,050,000 facilitated by a term loan agreement with East West Bank and $5,797,151.82 in cash as a downpayment to close escrow. The Purchase Price was discounted approximately $419,152.91 due to rent prorations, security deposits, and other such pre-paid amounts which resulted in the Company receiving a balance of $2,334 after closing costs. The surveyed aggregate land area of the Property amounts to approximately 464,955 useable square feet or 10.73 acres, which is comprised of four parcels (i.e., Parcel Numbers, 5237-022-014, 046, 047, and 5237-002-021) (the “Parcels”). The Parcels, including its land and improvements, have an aggregate value of approximately $28,424,982 in 2026 according to the Los Angeles County Assessor.

 The Property provides approximately 100,743 sq. ft. in rentable Class A office space and has a parking ratio of 4.1/1,000, offering a blend of surface parking and adjacent four-level parking structure with a canopy of solar panels that are currently leased. Currently, the Property is 99.2% occupied by approximately 16 tenants. The Company does not intend to alter the terms of lease agreements in place with the current tenants, most of which have a term of 5 to 8 years. The Company plans to occupy approximately 2,000 square feet of space. The Company has retained Lee & Associates to manage the property while the previous management Jamison Services will remain for 30 days to facilitate the transition.

TLDR: there is a lot of value locked up in this stock at $2 c ash per share and another $3 cash in the down payment for the property, and retail traders can and should be voting no to the offering, and thereby unlocking the value of the stock authorized and issued at the moment. I own this stock and I will add, trim, or close the position as I see fit. Do your own research and formulate your own trades.

Good luck - cheers!

$FCUV's description is that are working on some widget sensor thing, but recently they are pumping out press releases that they are also into AI software for reading SEC filings.

Funny thing is...I have been reading SEC filings for decades and I know a bit about them.

Keep this in mind as you keep reading: the enemy number one to retail traders when trading/investing in penny stocks is no one other than the company management - they are there so sell more shares, and get rich in the process, and rarely to provide a valuable product or service and return value to the shareholders.

So what did this stock's management decide to do with the cash from selling stock?

They bough real estate. Good looking piece of real estate 901 Corporate Center Drive, Monterey Park, California 91754, see below for details

As of the March 31 report, they had $6M in cash, but they raised another $4M in an offering and they spent about $6M for the down payment, so that leaves them with about $4M in cash, which a the current share count of around 2M, is $2 per share in hard cash....assuming they are not burning much, which they are, and we come to the next chapter in the valuation which is...

The down payment was so significant that it brings another $3 in cash per share, for a total of $5 in cash per share, assuming that the real estate is worth what they paid, and disregarding the fact that they brag that it has an assessed value of $28M.

Here comes the interesting part - common share holders will be diluted and will not be able to touch this crown jewel or the cash this company has spent $3 per share in cash, unless they buy up enough votes to vote NO on the planned potentially dilutive offering.

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1590418/000168316826003297/focus_defa14a.htm

If enough people buy the stock, and vote against than they even have a chance to look into the corporate books according to Nevada law, and examine why the company spent so much money on a down payment, instead of R&D for the SEC filings AI software.

Here are the real estate details:

https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/1590418/000168316826003231/focus_8k.htm

On April 17, 2026, Focus Universal Inc. (the “Company”), through a wholly owned subsidiary, Lusher Holding LLC (the “Lusher Holding”), closed the acquisition of Class A office and commercial building along with a four-level parking structure, located at 901 Corporate Center Drive, Monterey Park, California 91754 (the “Property”). The Seller of the Property was 901 Corporate Center, LP (the “Seller”). The Seller does not have a material relationship with the Company, and the acquisition was not an affiliated transaction.

 

The aggregate purchase price of the Property was $17,700,000, exclusive of closing costs (the “Purchase Price”). The Company made an initial down payment of $525,000 on January 26, 2026. On April 17, 2026, the Company funded the Purchase Price with a loan of $11,050,000 facilitated by a term loan agreement with East West Bank and $5,797,151.82 in cash as a downpayment to close escrow. The Purchase Price was discounted approximately $419,152.91 due to rent prorations, security deposits, and other such pre-paid amounts which resulted in the Company receiving a balance of $2,334 after closing costs. The surveyed aggregate land area of the Property amounts to approximately 464,955 useable square feet or 10.73 acres, which is comprised of four parcels (i.e., Parcel Numbers, 5237-022-014, 046, 047, and 5237-002-021) (the “Parcels”). The Parcels, including its land and improvements, have an aggregate value of approximately $28,424,982 in 2026 according to the Los Angeles County Assessor.

 The Property provides approximately 100,743 sq. ft. in rentable Class A office space and has a parking ratio of 4.1/1,000, offering a blend of surface parking and adjacent four-level parking structure with a canopy of solar panels that are currently leased. Currently, the Property is 99.2% occupied by approximately 16 tenants. The Company does not intend to alter the terms of lease agreements in place with the current tenants, most of which have a term of 5 to 8 years. The Company plans to occupy approximately 2,000 square feet of space. The Company has retained Lee & Associates to manage the property while the previous management Jamison Services will remain for 30 days to facilitate the transition.

TLDR: there is a lot of value locked up in this stock at $2 c ash per share and another $3 cash in the down payment for the property, and retail traders can and should be voting no to the offering, and thereby unlocking the value of the stock authorized and issued at the moment. I own this stock and I will add, trim, or close the position as I see fit. Do your own research and formulate your own trades.

Good luck - cheers!

$ORGN makes bottle caps from the same PET plastic that is used in the bottles, so this invention could be huge in the bottling and recycling industries.

However, they have fumbled the marketing and sales and are now up for sale and are closing up shop, after paying between $.61 and $3.54 to shareholders who own their small 5M shares outstanding.

Here is their proxy where they are describing the dissolution process: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1802457/000180245726000027/originmaterials-specialmee.htm

This is a special situation and it is not for the faint of heart, but to me this is an obvious mismanagement of the company IP, and cash position - they have more than $30M in cash alone! this can not and should not be wasted, so I sent them a note asking for a special dividend to be paid to shareholders of record 30 days from now, ranging between $3 and $3.5 per share.

I bought some stock at $1.34 and sold it at $2.23 during the early runup, and then bought again. Here is my note to management, similar to the one I sent to $AGAE where I nearly doubled my money when it ran up.

Directors, Chairman, CEO,

I own ORGN stock, and I am writing regarding the latest proxy statement you filed on May 15th where you itemize the minimum and maximum liquidation value and lay out a plan for an eventual dissolution of the company.

It is unfortunate that you have not considered all options before taking the final step and deciding to dissolve the company.

I have decades of corporate finance experience, and this is my advice to you as you contemplate your options at the moment.

1. Declare and pay a $3-$3.5 per share special dividend to shareholders of record dated 30 days from now. This move will attract institutional funds and will make your stock extremely attractive

2. Retire the obligations and raise cash for operations with a limited convertible bond or preferred stock offerings, extremely slowly

3. Focus on selling your product and IP in Europe - they have already enacted highly restrictive regulations which people hate, so they can use the PET bottle cap idea as either a continuation of on their path to restrict plastic waste, or perhaps even roll back the current cap regulations and make everyone use PET caps.

4. Finally, and very importantly, do not underestimate the value of your firm from the onset. The PET bottle cap is a great and novel idea, which you have depreciated in the proxy documents, and this is very unfortunate. Know your worth.

I hope that you act fast on the special dividend first, but also on researching and exploring the European markets as your primary focus. 

So to me, the risk return here is favorable, and I own this stock and I will add, trim, or close the position. do your own research and formulate your own trades.

Good luck to all, cheers!

$ORGN makes bottle caps from the same PET plastic that is used in the bottles, so this invention could be huge in the bottling and recycling industries.

However, they have fumbled the marketing and sales and are now up for sale and are closing up shop, after paying between $.61 and $3.54 to shareholders who own their small 5M shares outstanding.

Here is their proxy where they are describing the dissolution process: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1802457/000180245726000027/originmaterials-specialmee.htm

This is a special situation and it is not for the faint of heart, but to me this is an obvious mismanagement of the company IP, and cash position - they have more than $30M in cash alone! this can not and should not be wasted, so I sent them a note asking for a special dividend to be paid to shareholders of record 30 days from now, ranging between $3 and $3.5 per share.

I bought some stock at $1.33 and sold it at $2.24 during the early runup, and then bought again. Here is my note to management, similar to the one I sent to $AGAE where I nearly doubled my money when it ran up.

Directors, Chairman, CEO,

I own ORGN stock, and I am writing regarding the latest proxy statement you filed on May 15th where you itemize the minimum and maximum liquidation value and lay out a plan for an eventual dissolution of the company.

It is unfortunate that you have not considered all options before taking the final step and deciding to dissolve the company.

I have decades of corporate finance experience, and this is my advice to you as you contemplate your options at the moment.

1. Declare and pay a $3-$3.5 per share special dividend to shareholders of record dated 30 days from now. This move will attract institutional funds and will make your stock extremely attractive

2. Retire the obligations and raise cash for operations with a limited convertible bond or preferred stock offerings, extremely slowly

3. Focus on selling your product and IP in Europe - they have already enacted highly restrictive regulations which people hate, so they can use the PET bottle cap idea as either a continuation of on their path to restrict plastic waste, or perhaps even roll back the current cap regulations and make everyone use PET caps.

4. Finally, and very importantly, do not underestimate the value of your firm from the onset. The PET bottle cap is a great and novel idea, which you have depreciated in the proxy documents, and this is very unfortunate. Know your worth.

I hope that you act fast on the special dividend first, but also on researching and exploring the European markets as your primary focus. 

So to me, the risk return here is favorable, and I own this stock and I will add, trim, or close the position. do your own research and formulate your own trades.

Good luck to all, cheers!

Here is my closed trade, in again around $1.54

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People will dump Nasdaq 100 to avoid SpaceX.

Musk will sell TSLA to buy and pump SpaceX.

TSLA crash will drive Nasdaq 100 even lower.

People will finally realize that people on heavy drugs should not be trusted with their money.

It will take at least a decade to recover from the crash.

So now you know why the stock did not move much - they have an at-the-market offering and they were dumping shares on us, the retail trader base which was rooting for the shitco.

All of these are from their recent 10-Q which you can find here: https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/1880343/000149315226023941/form10-q.htm

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They can sell up to $18 million worth of shares, which at the current prices is 112 million shares.

As of the cut of date on the 10-Q which was for the last quarter they raised almost $1.3 from selling stock. As you can see, they make cash by selling stock, as do most of these shitcos.

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However, the bigger issue is this:

As of March 31 2026 they had almost 36M shares outstanding

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But as of the date of filing, May 14th, they have a whopping almost 59 Million shares, which means they have been dumping 23 Million shares on the incoming investors and trades over this month and a half.

https://preview.redd.it/5nc6ghfgng1h1.png?width=838&format=png&auto=webp&s=c410301d0db3a5b272c36a1c283df01fea9e019d

On their proxy filed on April 29th, they had 45M shares so this implies they sold 13M shares between April 29th and May 14

https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/1880343/000149315226020622/formdef14a.htm

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So there you have it ladies and gentlemen - the biggest enemy of penny stock investors is management - they are dumping and you are buying worthless paper. In my original note to them I told them to retire the number of shares and become a legitimate company with a legitimate business. I did not hear back from them, probably because it was a quiet period.

The trading action and the ruthless selling shows you that they are amateurs at capital raising as well. now it is obvious why - they have literally nothing to show for in the quarterly filing and are a cash burning machine while enriching themselves in the process.

BONUS: they will dilute the company to basically zero after a proposed 1/8 reverse split and a huge increase in authorized shares.

https://preview.redd.it/0v3qj559pg1h1.png?width=1333&format=png&auto=webp&s=e92128aeca7e570b3274780b72d5d870d00a8cb4

Also, they will increase the number of shares by a factor of almost 8 from 100M to 750M and while this is not immediately dilutive, this WILL 100% become dilutive as they dump shares on the public and make money for themselves via salaries.

https://preview.redd.it/g8rzsvaopg1h1.png?width=1329&format=png&auto=webp&s=02be721cd4134ed8fbe7d3ab1dfa2bab1c95e505

Speaking of salaries, they spent $4.5 million on SG&A in a QUARTER, and you better believe that a a good chunk of it has gone in their own bank accounts as salaries.

https://preview.redd.it/cajbokwvpg1h1.png?width=1338&format=png&auto=webp&s=1a80c92d67b22c5937db68b9f86cf0d202b09114

So there you have it - management is enemy #1 when dealing with penny stocks and this management is going to run this into the ground, and most likely get delisted and go bankrupt.

Caveat emptor, do your own diligence, not financial advice - you all have been warned.

Onward and upward - onto the next opportunity - cheers!

I wrote them several notes about what they need to do as far as messaging, and how they need to drive the "sex sells" message and so on.

Well, the promised date for the platform launch has come and gone and these idiots have not issued a single wire about the platform let alone any financials as allegedly promised to some idiots on Stocktwits.

So, I lost patience with them and dumped at probably the lowest point during the regular session.

This management deserves to be delisted and sent to the pink sheets where they will beg for financing, and they do not belong at the major exchanges.

Beware of all penny stock management, especially ones who never act professionally.

Here are all my AMZE trades, closed today at a tiny profit on 50,000 shares.

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