learn from SVT, buy up companies that fuffill these two conditions:
1. provides an essential service to a larger industry.
2. their news list on finviz is purely PR releases, no zachs or insider monkey fluff pieces.
that's how I found SVT last week before they got bought out, I got a few more like that but I need to knock the tires to make sure the first condition is satisfied, or at the least they don't have a major competitor.
once I found out that zachs and all those websites are there to drum up buyers for dealers to sell off their liquidity, if I see those websites polluting the newsfeed, I don't even need to prove the company is a scam.
don't care if the ticker turns out to pump, most of those pumps are just blips, and if ya don't sell at the top or have the stomach to sell on the upslope and watch it go further, you will lose money. its happened to me.
but also I got some stocks that went through a major repricing (SATL just off the top of my head) and their new price remains because I knew the fundamentals would back it up, and that it was a company that doesn't need fluff pieces to sell their stock, they got actual results, or a strong promise of results either through a business plan or through influential people willing to put down money on the ticker. In this case it was Steve Menuchin, and Scott Bessent. names go a long way on wall st apparently, especially when those names plop down big money.
My point is, lots and lots of tickers are made of paper mache, they look solid but will crumble under any real test of strength. And there are countless firms that are happy to sell you the stocks, and they are happy to sell you and get their commission, then once they sell enough they don't care about the price, and unless you get insider info, you will get screwed by these firms. They want your money, but don't want you rich. They only want you to break even so ya don't leave the casino forever.