Methodology: each issue's direction is a live signal — long/short opens or holds a position, neutral means flat, and every direction change opens, flips, or closes it. Returns are direction-aware (a short gains when the price falls) and compound across positions from first observation to the latest issue. "Price move" is the stock's own raw change, shown separately. Neither represents actual portfolio performance.
Brief History (11 issues)
Short stopped out: an +18.8% squeeze day capping a +18.6% week — meme-stock short discipline means honoring the stop without argument; take the small loss, keep the principal
Up 5.02% to $5.02 on 0.26x volume — a dead-cat bounce inside a -70% month. Adding the missing discipline line: $6 is the cover level for the short; thin-volume pops don't change the trend. Short below the line.
Down 6.7% to $4.78, below the $5 handle — another stop on the road to zero; staying short
Down 9.3% to $5.12 — the meme embers keep cooling; staying short
Down 14.1% to $5.05 — the journey to zero just hit the accelerator lane; the short's cushion thickens, staying short
Down 3.1% to $5.88, -27% on the week — the meme stock's glide to zero is in cruise phase; ample margin to the $8 stop, staying short
Down 6.5% — the two-day dead-cat bounce is over and the meme corpse resumes its glide to zero; stop stays $8, short on
A second straight dead-cat day at +9.1% — a corpse down 69% on the month is twitching; wrong above $8, staying short for now
+6.1% dead-cat bounce; the short's cumulative +6.6% stands, trend unreversed — stay short
-11.9%, short +11.9%; the meme unwinds -75% on the month, near the line — hold short
-20.7% in a day, -74% on the month: the squeeze stock's curtain call — don't go treasure-hunting in a graveyard