What Would the Short Seller Write
Draft the bear report before someone else publishes it. Produces the actual short thesis, the three exhibits it would lean on and the exact disclosure it would quote — and says so plainly when the material for one isn't there.
What this template answers
Each item below becomes a heading in the AI response.
- The headline the report would run under — one sentence, the claim itself.
- The core allegation: what is being represented to investors that the evidence on this page does not support?
- Exhibit one, two and three — each a specific line, table or phrase from the document, with what the short seller says it shows.
- The single disclosure they would put on the first slide, quoted exactly.
- The catalyst: what forces the market to look — a filing date, a covenant test, a lock-up expiry, a renewal, a regulator.
- The trade behind the report: how they are positioned, and what they need to happen within what timeframe.
- The company's strongest rebuttal, and whether it actually answers the exhibit or changes the subject.
- Verdict: is there a publishable report here, or is the material too thin — and which missing fact would settle it?
Categories
- Finance & Investing
- Critical Thinking & Skepticism
Tags
- short-thesis
- bear-case
- red-team
- forensic
- activist-short
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