SEC Bearish Catalyst Scanner

Mirror of /scanner/, flipped. Top short candidate cards plus dilution, restatement, late-filing, bankruptcy, and insider cluster-sell tables. Built from EDGAR + Yahoo, refreshed every 30 minutes.

📈 /scanner/ flags LONG ideas 📉 /short-scanner/ flags SHORT (or stay-away) ideas

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Not investment advice. A bearish-flagged ticker is not automatically a short candidate — short selling has unbounded loss, locate fees, hard-to-borrow risk, and squeeze risk. Many flags here (e.g. shelf S-3) are routine for healthy companies. Use as watch-out, cross-reference with /scanner/ overlap, size accordingly. Free preview · top 50 visible · refresh every 30 min.

🌡️ SEC Sector Heatmap —

Filing activity · sorted by bearish weight

Color encoding is inverted from /scanner/. On a short scanner, bearish filings are the opportunity — sectors flooded with dilution / restatement / delisting signals are where shorts find setups. So:

Green fill / ▼ green ticks = bearish-weighted sector → short opportunity
Red fill / ▲ red ticks = bullish-weighted sector → stay-away for shorts
Grey ◆ = no scored filings yet — neutral / waiting

Block size = total EDGAR filings today (bigger = more filings). Click any block to drill into the GICS Industry Group → Industry → Sub-Industry breakdown. Readout ▼ xB / yBr (n): B = bullish filings, Br = bearish filings, (n) = unscored. ⚡ = top-3 bearish-weighted sectors today. 🏅 = Akerlof information-asymmetry signal. 🌐▲ tailwind = sector tailwind ⇒ shorts face headwind here; 🌐▼ headwind = sector being suppressed ⇒ tailwind for shorts.

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📉 Bearish Primary Target · transparency mirror of /scanner/

Rank 01 · Bearish · stay-away / hedge

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Short trade frame · ATR14 stop · 2R ladder · reference only, not advice

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Why we surface this The Primary Target on /scanner/ is bullish. To stay honest we publish the strongest bearish setup side-by-side. A bearish flag is not auto-short — it's a stay-away or hedge prompt. Long counterpart →

🎯 Top Short Candidates —

Highest bear scores · click filter above to narrow

Card layout for the highest-conviction bearish setups — same pattern as the Top Gap Candidates on /scanner/, just flipped. Score circle + signal pills + short trade frame + Cerebro deep-link.

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💧 Dilution Risk —

S-3 · S-3ASR · 424B2/3/5 · S-1

Shelf registrations and prospectus supplements signal capital-raising. 424B5 ATM offerings flow steadily into the float at-market — most reliable persistent-pressure signal.

#	Ticker	Score	Tier	Top Dilution Filings
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🧾 Restatement & Auditor Risk —

10-K/A · 10-Q/A · 8-K/A · Item 4.02

Amended annuals/quarterlies indicate prior numbers were misstated. Item 4.02 non-reliance notices are the strongest pre-restatement signal — auditors flag fraud risk here.

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⏰ Late Filings —

NT-10-K · NT-10-Q

Form NT signals the company will miss the SEC filing deadline. Historically precedes material-weakness disclosures, restatements, or accounting investigations.

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☠️ Bankruptcy & Delisting —

Item 1.03 · Item 3.01 · BK + DL feeds

Chapter 7/11 filings and exchange delisting notices. Equity holders typically wiped out in Ch7, deeply diluted in Ch11 — the clearest possible bearish signal.

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📉 Insider Cluster Sells —

Form 4 · ≥2 sales · ≥$250K total

Multiple insiders dumping in a tight window — bearish counterpart to the insider-buy cluster on /scanner/. Pay-tax F-code sales = noise; open-market S-code = signal.

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⚡ All Bearish-Flagged Tickers —

Top 50 · all signal classes combined

Composite ranking: any ticker with ≥1 bearish signal, sorted by total bear score. BK = bankruptcy filing detected · DL = delisting notice.

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📊 Score Weights — transparent additive scoring

+12: Bankruptcy filing (Chapter 7/11)
+10: Delisting notice (NYSE/Nasdaq)
+9: 8-K Item 4.02 — non-reliance / accounting restatement
+8: Insider cluster SELL (≥2 sales, ≥$250K total)
+7: 10-K/A — restated annual report
+7: 8-K Item 5.02 — officer departure
+6: NT-10-K — late annual report
+6: 10-Q/A — restated quarterly
+6: 8-K Item 3.01 — delisting notice
+5: S-3 / S-3ASR — shelf registration
+5: 424B5 — ATM-offering prospectus
+5: NT-10-Q — late quarterly
+4: 424B2 / 424B3 — prospectus supplement
+4: S-1 / S-1A — IPO / secondary offering

Tier brackets: LOW <6 MOD 6–11 ELEV 12–24 HIGH 25–49 EXTREME ≥50

Both directions, one ledger.

Pro subscribers get the full bearish table (not just top 50), 30-min refresh push to email + Telegram, and overlap reports — tickers flagged by /scanner/ and /short-scanner/ at the same time are usually informational noise; tickers flagged by only one direction are the actionable ones.

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