Clearing the Decks

Sometimes a company doesn't just have a bad quarter. It chooses one. A new CEO writes off everything undesirable in a single shot so next year looks better by comparison, often timed to make the turnaround story attractive enough to recruit new leadership into. Clearing the Decks looks for the fingerprints of that: a real, recent, unusually large earnings miss, a serious price reaction, and a business that's still fundamentally intact underneath. It's a personal research tool for spotting deliberate resets, not a stock picking service.

Every candidate that clears the screen is still ranked by Reset Score, so instead of asking you to work through the whole list, we surface the single highest ranked name that hasn't already been featured recently. Everything else is still here, one tap away under "See other resets we're tracking."

There's no set hold date. We keep watching the same signals that flagged it in the first place, the next earnings report and whether the price has recovered, and a card comes off the list once that signal fades, not on a calendar. If you don't want to keep checking back yourself, sign up above for an automated email the moment a stock is removed from our screener.

A real, recent earnings miss or a swing to a loss, a serious price drop, and a business that still looks healthy underneath: margins still positive, revenue not collapsing. Certain sectors are skipped entirely because their swings tend to be regulatory or macro driven rather than a deliberate reset. What survives gets ranked by Reset Score, not by company size.

A single 0 to 100 number that blends how dramatic and recent the reset looks with how well the underlying business health is actually confirmed: the size of the miss, how hard the stock fell, whether revenue growth is verified or just unconfirmed, and a bonus if a genuine, recently confirmed leadership change lines up with the timing. The leadership part is best effort, pulled from a web search rather than a data feed, and the bonus simply doesn't apply when nothing turned up. It also recomputes every day as price moves, so a card can show a different score today than yesterday even though nothing about the original miss changed, that's not a re-review, just the same formula running on fresh numbers. The small number underneath the score shows how much it moved since yesterday.

Reported financials for the earnings miss and the underlying health check, and a web search for recent leadership changes. The financial side is solid data but stops at revenue and margins; there's no reliable feed for things like debt load or a formal going concern warning. The leadership side is best effort and can miss a real change or be out of date.

No. This is a screening tool, not a licensed recommendation. Informational only, and it never places trades on its own.

At least once a week, and often more, whenever something worth flagging comes up. There's no fixed daily schedule to hold it to.