Read the filing yourself, and know what you are looking at.

The reports turn a company's own filings into a risk index. These guides go one layer down into the mechanics: how dilution actually happens, what a going concern warning is really saying, which 8-K items matter, and how to run the same routine on any ticker in ten minutes. Written to be read once and used forever. Every guide cites public documents and named sources, and none of it is investment advice.

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8 MIN READ How to Spot Share Dilution Before It Wrecks Your Position Dilution is the slow leak that sinks most microcaps. Here is where the numbers live in the filings and how to check them in two minutes. dilutionofferingsbasics 7 MIN READ Going Concern Warnings: What They Actually Mean for Holders A going concern paragraph is not a bankruptcy notice. It is a specific accounting warning. Here is what triggers it and what usually follows. going concernaccountingbasics 6 MIN READ How to Read an 8-K in Five Minutes An 8-K is the company telling you something happened. Most items are routine. A handful change the story. Learn to tell them apart fast. 8-Kfilingsbasics 7 MIN READ Reverse Splits: Why Companies Do Them and What They Do to You A reverse split does not change what your position is worth, but it is rarely good news. Here is the mechanics and the pattern that usually follows. reverse splitlistingbasics 9 MIN READ Shelf Offerings and ATMs: How Companies Print New Shares Shelf registrations and at-the-market programs let a company sell shares into the open market on demand. Understand the machinery and the paperwork you can watch. offeringsATMS-3dilution 7 MIN READ Cash Runway: How Many Months Does the Company Have Left? Runway is cash on hand divided by burn. Two numbers, both in the filing, and both easy to misread. Here is how to get it right. cashrunwaybasics 8 MIN READ Insider Form 4s: When Selling Matters and When It Does Not Every Form 4 is public within two business days. Most are routine grants and tax withholding. A few are worth your attention. Here is how to read the codes. insidersForm 4basics 9 MIN READ How to Screen a Microcap in Ten Minutes A repeatable routine you can run on any ticker: cash, share count, recent 8-Ks, offerings, insiders. The same order every time, so your process cannot be talked out of it. processscreeningbasics

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Guides teach the mechanics. The report applies them to one company at a time, citing each number back to the SEC document it came from. Read how the risk index is built, or see who runs this and why.