Learn the setup. Size the risk. Trade the plan.
Small- and micro-cap markets punish people who learn by losing money. StocksAce publishes the machinery — how floats behave, how screeners mislead, how dilution reaches your share count weeks before the chart shows it, and how to size a position so one bad trade doesn't end the account.
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What this site is — and what it isn't
There is no shortage of people who will tell you what to buy. There is a real shortage of people who will explain why a stock behaves the way it does. We do the second thing.
Explain the mechanics
Float, dilution, short interest, halts, offering structures, order types, screener fields — the plumbing that decides how a small-cap actually trades.
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Calculators for the arithmetic you should be doing before you commit capital. No account, no data collection, nothing stored.
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No alerts, no "next runner", no watchlist you're meant to act on. Where a ticker appears in our editorial it illustrates a concept, and nobody paid for it to be there.
The guides
Each written to be the last thing you need to read on its topic.
How to find stocks under $10 worth researching
The three very different populations of sub-$10 stocks, and the eight-point checklist that disqualifies most of them.
Read the guide →How to read a stock screener without fooling yourself
Why dollar volume beats share volume, which ratios break on unprofitable companies, and the biases in every result set.
Read the guide →Float and short interest, explained properly
Why a 4-million-share float behaves nothing like a 48-million-share one, and why the short data is always out of date.
Read the guide →Position sizing and risk management for small accounts
The arithmetic of survival — and the four small-cap realities that break the textbook formula.
Read the guide →How to read an SEC filing: 8-K, S-1, S-3 and 424B
The item numbers worth memorising, primary versus resale registrations, and how to spot an ATM programme before it costs you.
Read the guide →Browse every guide
The full library, organised by screening, market mechanics, risk and filings.
See all guides →Free tools
Every one runs in your browser. Nothing you type is transmitted, logged or stored — there is no back end to send it to.
Position size calculator
Account equity, risk per trade, entry and stop in. The share count that caps your loss out — with concentration and liquidity caps applied, and a note on which one is binding.
Open the calculator → Capital structureDilution calculator
Model an offering: new share count, how far your ownership claim shrinks, the value-neutral price, and the fully diluted count once attached warrants exercise.
Open the calculator → SolvencyCash runway calculator
How many months before the company must raise — and the dilution implied by the raise it will need. The most predictive number for a business that loses money.
Open the calculator → Capital structureReverse split calculator
Post-split price, shares and float for any 1-for-N — plus the number most people miss: how much new stock the split makes issuable.
Open the calculator →The small-cap glossary
Seventy-odd terms that decide what happens to your money — float, ATM offerings, the baby shelf rule, days to cover, going concern, warrant coverage, Reg SHO. Each defined by its practical consequence rather than its dictionary meaning, and searchable.
How this site is funded — and why we lead with it
Small-cap media has a trust problem, and it is deserved. Networks of publisher sites with hidden common ownership take issuer money and arrange the page so you can't tell. Our answer is structural rather than a promise about our own restraint.
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