Research Guides

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Plain-English guides to SEC filings, dilution and promotion risk, and how underfollowed micro-cap companies actually work. Risk research, without the hype.

Filing Mechanics

How to Read an SEC 8-K Filing: A Microcap Investor’s Guide

A plain-English walk through the 8-K: what triggers one, the Item numbers that matter most, and how to spot a material e

OTC Pink, OTCQB, and OTCQX Explained: What Each Tier Signals

The three OTC tiers, what reporting each requires, and what a company’s tier tells you about disclosure quality and risk

Reading the First Three Pages of a 10-K: What Really Matters

Cover-page facts, the risk-factors language, and the going-concern flags most retail investors skip on the way to the fi

What an S-3 Shelf Registration Means for Existing Shareholders

When a shelf actually leads to dilution, how to read the selling-stockholders section, and why an effective S-3 is a sta

Risk Signals

Dilution Risk in Microcaps: Seven Signals You Can Verify From SEC Filings

Convertible notes, warrants, ATM offerings, recent S-3s, and share-count growth: seven dilution signals you can confirm

Going Concern Warnings: What They Mean and What to Look For Next

Where going-concern language appears in filings, what it actually means, and the events that tend to follow it.

Promotion Risk: How to Spot a Coordinated Stock-Promotion Campaign

Press cadence patterns, IR-firm churn, paid-newsletter timing, and the filing fingerprints that separate real news from

Reverse Stock Splits: When They Help and When They Signal Trouble

The exchange-compliance use case versus the death-spiral pattern, and how to tell which one you are looking at.

Toxic Convertible Notes Explained: Floating-Rate, Discount-to-Market, and the Warning Signs

How floating-rate, discount-to-market convertibles work, why they can spiral, and the filing language that flags them.

Investor Education

Reverse Mergers in 2026: What Is Legitimate, What Is a Red Flag, and How to Tell

The Wyoming holding-company structure, asset-acquisition pathways, and the pump-cycle warning signs around reverse merge

Underfollowed vs. Uncovered: Where Real Microcap Value Hides

The difference between a name no analyst covers and a name nobody should, and why most retail investors confuse the two.

Why Most OTC Research Is Wrong: A Critical Reader’s Guide

Promotional research, pay-for-coverage practices, and a practical checklist for deciding what to trust.

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