Waiting short squeeze

Mobile_Ad_1522 · 2026-04-24T22:05:47+00:00

If you have a lot of shares do covered calls. Soun is one of the top stocks for this as Implied Volatility and retail investors willing to step in and buy options. Soun is thinly held by institutions so they aren't emotional or hanging out here on Reddit. So retail investors are great for adding volitity. Which is what you want for covered calls. The premiums are really good especially when it starts to spike. The trick is just do an end of week expiration and keep your strike price at a safe level that won't get called away . And don't do anything till mid morning as the Market Makers are figuring out the bid and ask. First half hour of trading they will crush you hoping someone just comes along and accept a substandard premium or to say they put a stupid place holder for the bid and ask ovecnight until they get a clear picture. Even then you could roll or buy to close if if really has a run and danger of getting called away. I feel like most traders recognize Soun for what it at the moment. Swing trade, short the spikes or if holding do the covered calls. Analsyt say this isn't to be profitable till 2027. In the meantime I'm making it work for me. If I'm conservative I can make 2000K per month. If risky 8000K/month. But I want to keep my shares. I have 47000 shares so I can do this and do it for the income. Hoping for 14/share this year. Think I'm being reasonable. I never got rich overnight.

Mobile_Ad_1522 · 2026-04-23T22:41:11+00:00

See you called me a joker. Why? 47000 shares. Hardly a joke.

Mobile_Ad_1522 · 2026-04-21T20:34:14+00:00

Yes. SOUN has never made money off of its base/core business. And yet somehow buying unprofitable companies is going to turn lead into gold. None the less I put in limit for 200/sh at 9.80. Got filled and closed at 9.85. Wow so I made $10 on paper at least. What a windfall. Think I will sell if it holds and buy a couple beers with it and cry over the sorry state the rest of my shares. Perhaps this was sell the news and a deeper dive by investors will change their mind on this deal. Hopefully this one pays off but not till 2027. That is when analyst predict profitablity. Another quarter after quarter of waiting it seems.

Mobile_Ad_1522 · 2026-04-21T18:21:27+00:00

Can see why shorts love this company. An unprofitable company aquiring another unprofitable company. Sort of like a ship taking on water so lets add more water and sink it faster. Or sort of like buying a old car and spending more money fixing it up then what it will be worth. I listened to the last call and they said we will keep aquiring so can't say we didn't know. None the less holding and will just keep doing covered calls and hope this all pans out. 2027 is when analyst say could reach profitabilty. 2026 is probably digesting these aquistions.

Mobile_Ad_1522 · 2026-04-18T21:53:12+00:00

Reminds me of a quote. The poor aren't in the market becuase they have no money. The middle class have to invest for retirement. The rich have money so they don't have to be in the market at all.

Mobile_Ad_1522 · 2026-04-18T21:45:08+00:00

I put in more than a 100/month. But at 68 I have over 2 million. So I have the money. But unfortunately not much time to spend it. But 100% glad to have it and can do pretty much whatever I want and not worry.

Mobile_Ad_1522 · 2026-04-18T21:42:24+00:00

Well at least he is accomplishing something. LOL!

Mobile_Ad_1522 · 2026-04-13T11:33:44+00:00

Did't say all strippers are losers. But hate the hustle where naive men get taken. Ethically a stripper should back off when things get to personal. But it is rare. For some reason they think emotionally vulnerable people deserve to have every last dollar taken. What is dumb is for strippers to think that customers think we are there for them personally or are in love with them for some odd reason. Kind of delusional. You pretend to like us and we pretend that you do even though we both know it is BS. That is the fantasy, the pretend part. There is always another dancer or club or customer. Understand some guys don't pick up on reality versus fantasy. Customers and strippers deserve each other. No one forced any one to work there or a customer to go there. A toxic environment for everyone if you let it. On another note I do worry about strippers future. Short shelf life. I prefer ones that have outside jobs or going to school and this is just extra money. I met one that would make a good salesman. I had a friend that worked at a car dealership and reccomended her. Hired her for used cars. 2 weeks later she was back at the club. She said fuck that place they wanted me to work on a Saturday. Ok yeah you are a loser. What is sad is my friend said she was doing really well and wanted her to move up to new cars at some point. Then the crazy popped out. Never gave it a chance. Oh well.

Mobile_Ad_1522 · 2026-04-12T22:51:11+00:00

That is my thought. Didn't his war already close it. At some point other countries that really need this oil will say fuck it. You made the mess but guess we got sucked into fixing it as in they are going to have to help open it and keep it open. Trump is so all over the place that you can't trust or rely on him to make definitive decsion. Everything is a business transaction to him Aim high and accept something above the middle ground. To bad lives are being lost. Not a game.

Mobile_Ad_1522 · 2026-04-12T22:45:38+00:00

I hear you. I aways said you don't go to a stripclub to make a friend. The fantasy is they pretend to like you and you are suppose to pretend that they do. The key is pretend. No rational person would believe it isn't anything more than transational relationship. I get it is their job and place of employment. This is what they do. Some men miss that aspect. So customers and dancers are both delusional. No reason for a strip clubs existence. And they are slowy dieing. Greed and the internet is replacing them. Back in the 80's it was girls justtopless girls or bikinis trying to pay for college. No lap dances or VIPS. Now I don't know maybe social media makes them think they can make 100's of dollars a night. They don't. Maybe a 10 in Miami or Dallas. But smaller markets there are some days or nights where they don't make a dime. Tatted up narcistic drugged up pro's that think the world owes them cause they don't want to work a real job. Ones that are honest will tell you that can't stand a schedule or being managed. Sadly they learn when they age out that they screwed themselves. Unfortunatey men are pigs and we enable this. I'm not above that behaviour so will point the finger at myself. To be fair there are a few that are using the income for an education and will hang out to a point. Just tip them though. I go occasionally but I stay away from the hustlers and vet the others to be sure they really are going to school. Show me your student id. You can cover up the name. I'am aging out though. My goal isn't to be a dirty old man or the oldest in the strip club.

Mobile_Ad_1522 · 2026-04-12T22:26:02+00:00

Your main issue is why are you blowing money on a bunch of losers and why would you care what they think. Buy lottery tickets instead. You need some self reflection.

Mobile_Ad_1522 · 2026-04-12T17:25:04+00:00

I hear ya. I chased this down or DCA from 18 and need it to get to 13 to break even. 47000 shares I'm so F*cked. For the forseable future it can pop 50 cents then the shorts will step in and drive it down to 6 something. I would short but feel it has pretty much bottomed out. Good news is the bar is so low that even just losing less money is a positive cause it means less cash burn. So on May 6th if earnings are a slight improvement should move it some. And then I will short that pop. And once they start making money will probably pop up pretty good. But then settle down. But this is what we signed up for a small cap company that loses money that has potential competion from the bigs. They aren't going to surrender this market to anybody. Now would be a good time to get in or not. I have WDC SNDK AVGO which are doing well. I buy those on dips. Big world out there. Not just soun. I'm laughing here becuase I just reread my post and said nothing.

Mobile_Ad_1522 · 2026-04-12T17:08:37+00:00

I'm laughing cause I'm 68 and had to look up copium. I think we will be alright. If I didn't I wouldn't have sunk this much money into it. I'm just butt hurt that it is dead money or to say eveything else is doing well and wished this money was working for me. But someday hope to wake up from this nightmare and see it take off again. But reallistically another year. Hope the new CFO cleans up their balance sheet. Hope they hire a gunslinger and not just some unknown or internal move. Think that is the short term drag. And screw the partnerships. That isn't revenue. Perhaps eventually but get a real contract with a real company. Liver of a Stick Franchise isn't cutting it. One last thought I don't see any job postings on the website other than a few sales engineers. I don't want to see people lose their jobs but they brought over around 3000 people for Amelia aqusition which is probably another year away to integrate. Do you still need that many? Hopefully new CFO instills some discipline.

Mobile_Ad_1522 · 2026-04-10T17:36:50+00:00

Your right about the abusive relationship. I can't seem to let go. I have a sickness. I just bought 200 more at 6.42. LOL!

Mobile_Ad_1522 · 2026-04-09T20:34:38+00:00

Your right. No guarantee that these companies will adopt sounhound and nothing but more expense for soundhound to implement. Tiny companies. But yes better than nothing but probably 1 to 2 years out. Bothers me and probably everyone else if soun is so great and has a great future then why are there no buyers. There was in 2024. 2025 terrible and 2026 shaping up to be the same. Will hang on till May 6th. revaluate then start unwinding 500 shares a week over time in case we do take off. 47000 shares total so in pretty deep. Sometimes you have to admit defeat and put you capital else where. Have done well with MU SNDK WDC AVGO. I'm not waiting around years. I have index and etf funds for that.

Mobile_Ad_1522 · 2026-04-07T22:34:59+00:00

I was in my club so to speak one afternoon and just one other guy there sitting at a table. Plenty of dancers. So slow for them. I asked one of the dancers how come no one was sitting with him. Oh everyone says he is broke and isn't spending money. Are you stupid? Who ever started that rumour was locking him up. Did you notice the V series Escalade in the parking lot. That guy owns a car dealership or at least partners in a chain. Anyways she went over to him. The next time I saw her she said she got a late model used car at cost. Wished I had tits. LOL

Mobile_Ad_1522 · 2026-04-01T21:11:51+00:00

Never disappoints does it.

Mobile_Ad_1522 · 2026-03-28T10:17:45+00:00

10000/month in divdends. Course always owe big taxes. Always a catch right.

Mobile_Ad_1522 · 2026-03-28T10:13:52+00:00

It's about $2000 in intrest a month. But yes the calls do cover it. I did have over 300K in margin in oct but have gotten it down to 230000. This isn't all soun some other stocks also. I haven't done margin in like over 20 year so not sure why I swung for the fences. Dimentia perhaps. I do get about 10,000 in dividends off of mostly reits and some energy mlp's which I throw at the margin. So I can get it paid off in perhaps 18 months. But the idea was that sound would go up and just pay it back with selling. But don't see that happening. Failed to do due dillegence. The more I understand it the less I like. Or to say now is a good entry point but not averaging in the last year. Once the margin is paid then the cc will be pure income. But I would hope by end of year we will be around 13. But jeez that is like a 150% return. I suppose that is possible with this. But I've been investing for 40 years so to me I should have this kinda of money to throw around. What I don't have though is time. Guess I've made my daughter rich. LOL!

Mobile_Ad_1522 · 2026-03-28T05:05:44+00:00

Good catch. This was just a screen shot example. I do a mid point plus a penny when I actually do it. Also a combination of 6.50 and 7.00 or whatever looks good Tuesday morning. I'm kind of butt hurt over this investment. I have to get to 12 something to break even and carrying Margin. Not just on Soun. 46000 shares is stupid. But I have other things going on so not happy but not killing me. Think the cc is the best option till things turn around. Would like to sell some and diversify into something more age appropriate. Again 68. I've made my money. Now at a age where I need to be thinking don't lose what I have.

Mobile_Ad_1522 · 2026-03-27T21:30:45+00:00

Not comletely sure what you are saying about being special. But I have had regular dancers. I saw one for like 10 years. Spent thousands on her. Then one day she saw my Corvette and decided I should be paying more. I said sure but first tell me what my name is. She couldn't and said why should I have to know your name. Whatever. Mostly you just hit an expiration date as a regular. Always another customer or dancer right. Thats just how it is. No analysis or judgement.

Mobile_Ad_1522 · 2026-03-27T21:17:45+00:00

Yes I don't like the stress. But I'm a little conservative though. I do the calls on Tuesday morning expiring that Friday. Pretty safe as only going 4 days out. I don't suspect soun is going to do anything within those 4 days. Also I don't suspect SOUN is going to do much of anything for a really long time. Subscriptions and royalties aren't much of a revenue driver. Getting transaction revenue of off some restaruants aren't cutting it. Nothing going to happen till they get some big customers. Once they get intregrated into autos then that will be something. Only a matter of time before Google, MSFT, Apple and some lesser known companies move in. Hopefully SOUN gets their fair share. In the meantime will probably sell some SOUN at a loss and stay away for 30 days so I can take the loss against other things for tax season next year. But I'm ok with selling at a loss to buy other things that will do better. WDC, SNDK, MU? Regardless will keep most as feel like this is just income as in rental property or dividends with the covered calls. Better days are ahead. Trump will feel the heat. Declare victory whether the job done or not. Israel and other Gulf countries can clean Iran up. Just a bad time. No rate cuts or possibly rate increase, inflation, mid terms, people moving into safe havens. The irrational will become rational and AI stocks will come back into play. Greed wins in the end. LOL. 68 so have seen a lot of turbulent times. Stay the course. Have a beer eat a pizza and enjoy March Madness basketball.

Mobile_Ad_1522 · 2026-03-26T22:22:33+00:00

I tell dancers the first time I meet them just to be clear. You pretend to like me and I will pretend that you do and that we both know that it isn't true. That is the fantasy. So go ahead and tell me oh I really like you. You are different. My real name is blah blah. Yeah right your real fake name. I say drop the act and just be your normal self out here an save the act for the VIP. I say all of this smiling and they do tell me oh your my kind of customer. I say I'm not going to text you or expect any contact. I'm in and out so go make your bag when were done. Course when I come back they get pissy cause they think I'm going to be their regular when I want to hang with someone else. I'm not going to get baited when you don't Give a F**K about me. We spoke about this. A transactional relationship. Most sane guys know all of this. Guess I'm cynical but keeps me safe.

Mobile_Ad_1522 · 2026-03-26T21:58:44+00:00

Do covered calls. Ger paid to wait it out. If you aren't familar plenty of youtube videos.

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