r/ShortStocks

Serious question.
When you have a smaller company like Troops with multiple operational angles, how do you even approach valuation?
Do you mostly focus on the lending side, future fintech potential, or just ignore the story until execution becomes clearer?

I go back and forth on this constantly. Some companies move purely off hype while others quietly build for years. Troops, Inc. feels like one where people are still debating whether the business evolution is meaningful or not.

Hello I want to learn about shorting stocks .

1-When is the best time to short a shock (mostly for Scalping)? 2-what’s the best strategy and setup for shorting ? 🙏🏻

“Digi Power X (DGXX) looks a lot like another textbook micro-cap pivot play. A failed Bitcoin miner reinventing itself as an AI infrastructure operator is a la mode these days. The stock trades at 15-16x trailing sales amid headline AI Infrastructure-driven hype. It has surged 400% over the past 12 months, driven by a series of aggressive press releases and Fintwit promotions that mask a decaying capital structure and falling revenue. In fact, multiple structural flaws support a skeptical thesis, among which: (1) an insiders’ arrangement that transferred substantial value to execs at depressed valuations through the US Data Centers subsidiary; (2) a history of relentless equity dilution; and (3) an execution record marked by slipping timelines, with the only material AI revenue not commencing until late 2026 at the earliest. And not least, and probably the most important catalyst: a Founder who could simply be qualified as a disingenuous, self-serving, hyping, bullshitting hustler leveraging the thin edge of a “legendary investor’s name and reputation to pump his stock.”

Q1 2026 results (May 15) represent the first major catalyst for a potential de-rating. Still, upward Volatility might last longer than operational value warrants.”

I would appreciate a subscription and comments...Preferably from the "haters" BTW!

Just kidding!!!

(Never Yield to Evil)

Is any bear still alive?

Every time we get a legitimate setup, the market finds a new reason to rip. Ceasefire. AI headline. Trade deal. It's Covid all over again — the market only goes up and any excuse will do.

The analyst upgrade cycle is the most transparent racket on Wall Street. Stock hits their target, they raise it, stock rips to the new target, they raise it again. Rinse and repeat. Zero fundamental justification required.

The call buyer feedback loop makes it worse. Retail piles into calls, market makers are forced to buy shares to delta hedge, price goes up, more calls get bought, more shares get bought. The tail wags the dog until it explodes.

CNBC is not financial news. It's a promotional vehicle. Nobody on that network ever says a stock is too expensive because they own it or their sponsors do. That's not analysis — that's advertising.

The macro excuses are endless:

Higher inflation? Pump — stocks are a hedge

Rate cut? Pump — cheaper money

Rate hike? Pump — means the economy is strong

War? Pump — defense spending

High oil? Pump — energy sector wins

Stocks at 15x forward earnings? Pump — it's actually cheap on a 30-year DCF

And the earnings game is the most crooked of all. Set estimates at rock bottom. Beat by a penny. Revenue grew 200% — from nothing to almost nothing. Call it a turnaround. Pump it.

High short interest? Even better. Jack the price, squeeze the shorts out, then distribute to the retail bag holders at the top.

When I started looking at futures, I wanted big moves. Big points, big days, big screenshots.

Now I think that mindset is dangerous. Sometimes, taking a small clean move and leaving is better than trying to catch the whole candle. The market doesn’t owe us the full move.

Greed turns good trades into average ones, and average ones into losses.

For futures traders, do you take small consistent profits or hold for bigger targets?

Epam board unanimously vote Yes on poison pill proposal to issue 4m new shares and give away them to workers.

the Board - just on this proposal voting must be removed. They keep proving zero independence, if not conflicting interests

the C-suite trying to engineer this “poison pill” upon -80% stock failure, must be removed as not efficient market participants exhibiting zero risk management for many years resulting in current situation